Platform Engineer

HCLTech

📍 st catharines, on, Canada

Full-time Other-General Posted February 21, 2026

Job Description

Architect level requirement to assist on building out Kafka platform and specifically with focus on Flink ; Should be able to contribute to design, propose, and evaluate solutions. Should also be hands-on with development and lead the Kafka development team.


  • Expert-level architecture and implementation experience of Flink applications on Confluent Platform, specifically for high-volume, low-latency stream processing.
  • Extensive experience architecting, implementing, and administering the Confluent Cloud Kafka and Flink platform in production environments.
  • Advanced proficiency in core Flink concepts including state management (Keyed/Operator State, RocksDB), Exactly-Once semantics, and configuring checkpointing and savepoints for fault tolerance.
  • Deep knowledge of Event Time processing, Watermarks (Bounded Out-of-Orderness), and complex Windowing(Tumbling, Sliding, Session) for accurate stream analytics.
  • Advanced knowle...