Kafka SalariesDecember 2025

Real salary data from 31 active Kafka job listings on Hacker News. Updated daily.

MEDIAN
$130,000
RANGE
$60,000 - $200,000
JOBS
31
AVERAGE
$128,806

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Top 5 Highest Paying Kafka Jobs

#1
Distributed Systems Engineer, Product Engineer
Moment • Onsite
$200,000 - $325,000
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#2
Senior/Staff Backend Engineer
Rally UXR • Remote
$190,000 - $225,000
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#3
Senior Golang Engineer
Mailgun (Sinch) • Remote
$165,000 - $190,000
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#4
Senior Backend Systems Engineer
Kernel Intelligence • Remote
$150,000 - $200,000
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#5
DL/AI/CV, Infra, WebApp, Field Software Engineer
Matroid • Onsite
$150,000 - $300,000
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All Kafka Jobs

Kernel Intelligence
Senior Backend Systems Engineer
zen
$150,000 - $200,000
PythonFastAPIAsyncIOSQLAlchemy 2.xPulsar
Y
Moment
Distributed Systems Engineer, Product Engineer
zen
$200,000 - $325,000
GolangKafkaPostgreSQLECSPython
Y
Elastics
Founding Engineer
zen
$60,000 - $60,000
PythonC++DockerRedisKafka
Y
Rally UXR
Senior/Staff Backend Engineer
zen
$190,000 - $225,000
TypeScriptAWSPostgreSQLElasticSearchKafka
Y
Moov
Multiple Roles
zen
$120,000 - $325,000
GolangPostgreSQLAlloyDBSpannerKubernetes
Y
CVector
Full Stack Software Engineer; UI/UX Designer
stable
$75,000 - $75,000
PythonTypeScriptReactSupabaseMQTT
Y
Matroid
DL/AI/CV, Infra, WebApp, Field Software Engineer
zen
$150,000 - $300,000
PythonPyTorchKubernetesKafkaRedis
Y
Obsidian Security
Senior Threat Backend Engineer
zen
$149,000 - $208,000
PythonFastAPIasyncioTypeScriptWXT
Y
Peregrine Technologies
Senior Software Engineers
stable
$130,000 - $250,000
PythonDjangoCeleryAirflowKafka
Y
CVector
Full Stack Software Engineer; UI/UX Designer
stable
$75,000 - $75,000
PythonTypeScriptReactSupabaseMQTT
Y
Artis Works
Backend Engineer
zen
$90,000 - $114,000
RustJVMClojureKafkaPulsar
Y
CVector
Full Stack Software Engineer
stable
$75,000 - $75,000
PythonTypeScriptReactSupabaseMQTT
Y
Matroid
Software Engineer
stable
$150,000 - $300,000
PythonPyTorchKubernetesKafkaRedis
Y
Peregrine Technologies
Senior Software Engineers
zen
$130,000 - $250,000
PythonDjangoCeleryAirflowKafka
Y
Xeotek Inc.
(Senior) Sales Engineer / Manager
stable
$110,000 - $140,000
KafkaFlinkcloud platformsmodern data infra
Y
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Lead Engineer (Staff Engineer 4)
zen
$144,000 - $236,000
PythonPostgres/SQLKubernetesS3Kafka
Y
Peregrine Technologies
Senior Software Engineer
stable
$130,000 - $250,000
PythonDjangoCeleryAirflowKafka
Y
CVector
Full Stack Software Engineer
stable
$100,000 - $100,000
PythonTypeScriptReactSupabaseMQTT
Y
Peregrine Technologies
Senior Software Engineer
stable
$130,000 - $250,000
PythonDjangoCeleryAirflowKafka
Y
Peregrine Technologies
Senior Software Engineer
stable
$130,000 - $250,000
PythonDjangoCeleryAirflowKafka
Y
Godel Terminal
Frontend Engineer, Backend Engineer
stable
$140,000 - $250,000
TypeScriptReactWebSocketsWeb WorkersJVM
Y
Peregrine Technologies
Senior Software Engineer
stable
$130,000 - $215,000
PythonDjangoCeleryAirflowKafka
Y
Mailgun (Sinch)
Senior Golang Engineer
zen
$165,000 - $190,000
GolangMongoDBCassandraKafkaNomad
Y
Godel Terminal
Frontend Engineer, Backend Engineer
stable
$140,000 - $250,000
TypeScriptReactWebSocketsWeb WorkersJava
Y
Peregrine Technologies
Senior Software Engineer
stable
$130,000 - $215,000
PythonDjangoCeleryAirflowKafka
Y
Peregrine Technologies
Senior Software Engineer
stable
$130,000 - $215,000
PythonDjangoCeleryAirflowKafka
Y
Godel Terminal
Frontend Engineer, Backend Engineer
stable
$140,000 - $250,000
TypeScriptReactWebSocketsWeb WorkersJava
Y
Skylight
Senior Backend Engineer
stable
$140,000 - $213,000
ReactTypeScriptGraphQLPythonJava
Y
Skylight
Senior Backend Engineer
zen
$140,000 - $213,000
ReactTypeScriptGraphQLPythonJava
Y
Peregrine Technologies
Senior Software Engineer, Mobile
stable
$130,000 - $215,000
PythonDjangoCeleryAirflowKafka
Y
Artis Works
Senior Engineer Frontend and Backend
zen
$120,000 - $168,000
RustClojureTypeScriptReactWASM
Y
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