Apache Kafka

Data Platform Streaming & Messaging

Apache Kafka is a distributed event store and stream-processing platform. It is an open-source system developed by the Apache Software Foundation written in Java and Scala. The project aims to provide a unified, high-throughput, low-latency platform for handling real-time data feeds. Kafka can connect to external systems via Kafka Connect, and provides the Kafka Streams libraries for stream processing applications. Kafka uses a binary TCP-based protocol that is optimized for efficiency and relies on a "message set" abstraction that naturally groups messages together to reduce the overhead of the network roundtrip. This "leads to larger network packets, larger sequential disk operations, contiguous memory blocks [...] which allows Kafka to turn a bursty stream of random message writes into linear writes."

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48 jobs · 40 companies · last seen 9 October 2026

There are currently 48 open roles in Berlin that mention Apache Kafka, posted by 40 companies. It frequently pairs with Python, SQL, AWS. Seen most in Data Engineer (21% of their roles) and Analytics Engineer (7% of their roles) and Leadership (6% of their roles). Across those roles, 96% list it as required and 2% as nice-to-have.