New AI postings mentioning Kafka per week — 75 total over 12 weeks.
107 active AI roles across 43 companies mention Kafka. Category: Data Engineering.
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.
12 AI roles requiring this skill.
| Company | Title | Sector | AI score | Stage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PitchBook | Manager, Engineering, AI & ML | Fintech | 8 | L2 |
| Visa | Software Engineer, Sr. Consultant Level (11-15 years exp, Java-Python-AWS-GenAI) | Fintech | 8 | L4 |
| Visa | Data Scientist - Sr. Consultant (MLOPs, Predictive Fraud intelligence) | Fintech | 7 | L0 |
| Visa | Data Engineer - Senior Consultant level | Fintech | 7 | L4 |
| Visa | Senior Software Engineer – Product Reliability Engineering (Middleware) | Fintech | 7 | L4 |
| Stripe | Staff Engineer, Identity | Fintech | 7 | L4 |
| Visa | Data Scientist- Sr. Consultant level | Fintech | 7 | L6 |
| Visa | SW Engineer - Sr. Consultant Level | Fintech | 7 | L4 |
| Visa | Lead Data Scientist | Fintech | 7 | L6 |
| SoFi | Principal Software Engineer, Member Growth | Fintech | 7 | L4 |
| Visa | Senior Software Engineer | Fintech | 7 | L4 |
| Upstart | Principal Software Engineer, Machine Learning Simulations | Fintech | 7 | L3 |