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Flink Manager

ManagerManagerFull TimeRemoteTeam 11-50Since 2021H1B No SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

United States

Posted

17 days ago

Salary

$10,000K - $40,000K / year

Bachelor Degree8 yrs expEnglishApacheCloudDistributed SystemsJavaKafkaKubernetesMicroservicesScalaYarn

Job Description

• As a Flink Manager, you will be responsible for driving real-time streaming initiatives, managing high-performing engineering teams, and architecting scalable data solutions that power mission-critical business applications. • You will collaborate closely with product, analytics, infrastructure, and leadership teams to translate business requirements into resilient streaming architectures. • Lead the design, development, and deployment of real-time data processing pipelines using **Apache Flink**. • Architect scalable, fault-tolerant, and low-latency streaming systems leveraging Flink’s DataStream and Table APIs. • Manage end-to-end lifecycle of Flink applications including development, testing, optimization, monitoring, and production support. • Drive best practices for state management, checkpointing, windowing, event-time processing, and fault tolerance in Flink. • Optimize Flink job performance, resource allocation, and cluster tuning for high-throughput environments. • Oversee integration of Flink with distributed systems such as Kafka, data lakes, warehouses, and microservices. • Lead and mentor a team of data engineers, conducting code reviews and enforcing engineering excellence standards. • Collaborate with DevOps teams to manage Flink deployments on cloud and on-prem environments. • Establish monitoring, logging, and alerting mechanisms for streaming pipelines to ensure high availability and reliability. • Contribute to roadmap planning for streaming and real-time analytics platforms.

Job Requirements

  • 8–12 years of overall experience in data engineering, distributed systems, or backend engineering.
  • Strong hands-on expertise in **Apache Flink** (minimum 3–5 years preferred).
  • Deep understanding of stream processing concepts including event-time semantics, watermarking, state backends, and exactly-once guarantees.
  • Proven experience designing and managing high-throughput, low-latency Flink pipelines.
  • Strong programming skills in Java or Scala for Flink development.
  • Experience with distributed messaging systems (e.g., Kafka) and data storage systems.
  • Familiarity with cluster resource management frameworks (YARN, Kubernetes, or similar).
  • Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and performance tuning skills specific to Flink workloads.
  • Experience leading engineering teams and managing cross-functional stakeholders.

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