107 active AI roles across 43 companies mention Kafka. Category: Data Engineering.
New AI postings mentioning Kafka per week — 75 total over 12 weeks.
Kafka is a skill in the "Data Engineering" category. It currently appears in 107 active AI roles across 43 companies in our index.
The top employers with active AI roles mentioning Kafka are: Visa (8), Adobe (7), Walmart (6), Reddit (6), Apple (6).
Over the last 12 weeks, 75 new AI postings mentioned Kafka. Demand is rising — up 100% in the last four weeks compared to the earliest four weeks in the window.
Roles requiring Kafka are concentrated in: agents (64%), serving infrastructure (13%), application (10%). These stages follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle from data preparation through to shipped product.
Job postings that mention Kafka most often also require: Python, Spark, Distributed Systems, Machine Learning, Data Pipelines.
11 AI roles requiring this skill.
| Company | Title | Sector | AI score | Stage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Foundational Representations | Consumer | 8 | L2 | |
| Instacart | Senior Software Engineer II, AI Labs & Foundations | Consumer | 8 | L4 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Consumer | Consumer | 8 | L4 | |
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer | Consumer | 8 | L6 | |
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer | Consumer | 8 | L6 | |
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Foundational Representations | Consumer | 7 | L0 | |
| Instacart | Staff Software Engineer, Home & Cross-Retailer Search | Consumer | 7 | L4 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Measurement Modeling | Consumer | 7 | L2 | |
| Uber | Software Engineer II ML, Merchant Intel 8 | Consumer | 7 | L4 |
| Uber | Machine Learning Engineer II | Consumer | 7 | L6 |
| Uber | Senior AI/ML Engineer | Consumer | 7 | L4 |