Kafka jobs in the San Francisco Bay Area
21 roles posted Oct 20–27, 2026 list Kafka as a skill in the San Francisco Bay Area, from 18 employers. That is 3% of the 766 developer roles in the San Francisco Bay Area RoleWeek lists.
A role counts when Kafka is among the up to five technologies RoleWeek read in its posting. Data as of .
Who is hiring
| Employer | Roles |
|---|---|
| CrowdStrike | 3 |
| Accenture | 2 |
| Anthropic | 1 |
| Braze | 1 |
| Clera | 1 |
| Conversion | 1 |
| GridCARE | 1 |
| JPMorgan Chase | 1 |
| NetApp | 1 |
| PayPal | 1 |
The 10 employers with the most roles, out of 18. One role is one opening, however many places it is listed for.
By level
| Level | Roles | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Mid level | 3 | 14% |
| Senior | 6 | 29% |
| Staff+ | 8 | 38% |
| Manager | 4 | 19% |
Level is RoleWeek’s reading of each posting.
What these roles post as salary
17 of these 21 roles list a yearly salary range in US dollars. The median bottom of those ranges is $177K and the median top is $293K; the middle half of the bottoms runs from $140K to $240K, and of the tops from $250K to $300K. These are the ranges employers posted in their own postings: not offers, not what people are paid and not a market average. Posted ranges across all the developer roles RoleWeek lists in the San Francisco Bay Area: Developer salary ranges in the San Francisco Bay Area · Software engineer salary ranges in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Not counted: 4 roles list no salary. Pay by the hour, week or month is never converted or mixed with yearly ranges, and each page uses one currency.
Roles that list Kafka
All 21, newest first. Search the roles in this list that mention Kafka
Software Engineer III - Backend
JPMorgan ChasePalo Alto, CAKafkaSpring BootSeniorLead Data Engineer, AI & Modernization
AccentureMountain View, Kirkland +41Hybrid$87.4K–$293.8K/yrKafkaLLMs5+ yrsSoftware Engineer (Infra)
ConversionSan FranciscoOn-siteKafkaClickHouse3+ yrsStaff Engineer, Data Platform
UnityMountain View, CARemote$157.8K–$300.6K/yrKafkaFlinkStaff Software Engineer (Applied AI)
TrabaSan Francisco, New York$240K–$300K/yrKafkaTypeScriptStaff Software Engineer - Core Platform - Streaming & Storage
StubHubSan Francisco, Los Angeles +1$300K–$350K/yrKafkaAWS8+ yrsSr Software Engineer, Cloud - Fusion
CrowdStrikeSunnyvale, CAHybrid$140K–$215K/yrKafkaGo7+ yrsSr. Site Reliability Engineer - Core Platform & Embedded Reliability
CrowdStrikeSunnyvale, Redmond +2Hybrid$140K–$215K/yrKafkaGo10+ yrsManager, Software Engineering
NetAppSan Jose, Seattle +6$196.3K–$292.6K/yrKafkaCassandra8+ yrsPrincipal Software Engineer, Data Platform — Data Trust & AI Context
SoFiSan Francisco, Seattle +1KafkaSnowflake15+ yrsMember of Technical Staff, Finance Data
VercelSan Francisco, New YorkHybrid$264K–$396K/yrKafkaClickHouseNo account needed8+ yrsBacked by AccelSenior Manager, Site Reliability Engineering (Hybrid)
CrowdStrikeSunnyvale, Redmond +2Remote$160K–$250K/yrKafkaAWS10+ yrsSenior/Staff Backend Software Engineer
GridCARERedwood CityOn-site$184K–$284K/yrKafkaPython8+ yrsSenior Software Engineer II, Decisioning Studio Integrations Team
BrazeSan Francisco, New York +3$156.4K–$280K/yrKafkaDatadogNo account needed6+ yrsProduct Engineer (Software Engineer)
CleraSan FranciscoOn-site$120K–$200K/yrKafkaSQL3+ yrsEngineering Manager, Finance Engineering
AnthropicSan Francisco, SeattleOn-site$320K–$405K/yrKafkaGoNo account needed3+ yrsBacked by AccelPrincipal Software Engineer - PubMatic AgenticOS (Buy Side Bidding Platform)
PubMaticRedwood CityHybrid$200K–$228.8K/yrKafkaGoStaff Software Engineer
PayPalSan Jose, CAHybrid$176.5K–$262.4K/yrKafkaJava5+ yrsStaff Software Engineer - Routing Engine
ZiplineSouth San Francisco, Ann ArborKafkaRustBacked by a16zSenior Software Engineer, Realtime Analytics Platform
RobloxSan Mateo, CA$243.3K–$295.2K/yrKafkaFlink6+ yrs
How these counts are made
- Source: the roles RoleWeek lists as posted in the last 7 days, straight from employers’ own hiring systems. A role counts for a skill when that skill is one of the up to five technologies RoleWeek read in the posting’s title and description (the title first, then the most mentioned). A role that names a skill once among many tools may not list it, so these count the roles that list the skill, not all the roles that touch it.
- Names are matched exactly: Java is not JavaScript, C++ and C# are not C and not each other, Go is the language (never “go-to-market”) and R is the language. A posting that names a vendor only as its own employer, an investor or a customer does not count for that vendor’s product.
- One role is one card: an opening listed for several places counts once on a page. A role listed in several cities counts on each city’s page.
- A skill has a page when 15 or more roles list it, and a city page when 15 or more do there and it is not the same set of roles as the skill’s own page. Practices that are not one technology (CI/CD, Git, microservices, networking) have none.
- Salaries are only what employers posted, summarised by the rules of the salary pages: yearly ranges only, one currency per page, a median shown with 15 or more roles. The numbers are rebuilt every day.
The full list: Developer roles in the San Francisco Bay Area (766 roles posted in the last 7 days). Every skill: developer roles by skill.