Remote lead and principal Kafka jobs in the UK
Live remote lead and principal Kafka jobs in the UK, detected on employer careers pages and updated hourly. Every role is fully remote or work-from-home.
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We are currently tracking 15 live vacancies matching remote lead and principal Kafka jobs in the UK, advertised by 11 different employers. 6 of them were first seen in the last seven days. The most active employers in this slice are Remotefriendly, Monzo, Ftmo and Gravity9. Every role is detected on the employer's own careers page rather than reposted from another board, so what you see here is the vacancy as the employer wrote it.
Too few of these roles publish a salary for a reliable benchmark. Where a figure is quoted it appears on the listing, and contract day rates are annualised so they can be compared against permanent salaries.
On working pattern, 100% are fully remote. By seniority, 100% at lead or principal level. Filter by any of these on the left.
Employers hiring for Kafka in this slice most often ask for it alongside AWS, Kubernetes, Java, Python, Azure and Google Cloud. That co-occurrence is counted from the live listings on this page, not from a fixed list, so it moves with the market.
Full Stack Architect
Software Engineering Team Lead
Engineering Manager
Data Architect
Staff Backend Engineer
Senior Staff Backend Engineer
AffirmPolandEngineering Manager, Backend (Financial Reporting)310k - 387k PLN
AffirmPolandEngineering Manager (Developer Productivity)310k - 387k PLN
AffirmPolandEngineering Manager, Backend (Collections)310k - 387k PLNSQL, Jupyter
AffirmPolandSenior Engineering Manager, Merchant Servicing362k - 453k PLN
Principal Machine Learning Engineer
QA Lead
Software Engineering Manager - Data Platform @ Addepar | Sway Ventures Job Board
Kafka Solutions Architect
Lead Java Developer/Architect
Job titles employers are advertising
The exact titles on the live vacancies in this search, most common first.
Questions about these roles
How many remote lead and principal Kafka jobs in the UK are there right now?
We are tracking 15 live vacancies across 11 employers. The crawler revisits employer careers pages continuously and roles disappear from this page as soon as they come down, so the count reflects what is genuinely open today.
Are these contract or permanent roles?
Every role here that states a basis is permanent. Contract vacancies are listed separately.
Which employers are hiring?
The most active right now are Remotefriendly, Monzo, Ftmo, Gravity9 and Softwaremill. Every vacancy links straight to that employer's own careers page — we are an aggregator, not the hiring company, and there is no middleman between you and the application.
What other skills do these roles ask for?
Most often AWS, Kubernetes, Java, Python and Azure. That is counted from the live adverts on this page rather than a fixed list, so it tracks what employers are asking for this month.
Are there entry-level or graduate Kafka developer jobs in the UK?
Not right now — every live advert here signals mid-level experience or above. Graduate intakes are seasonal, so this is worth checking again rather than reading as a permanent state of the market.
What job titles are used for this role?
Employers on this page advertise it as QA Lead, Principal Machine Learning Engineer, AffirmPolandSenior Engineering Manager, Merchant Servicing362k - 453k PLN, AffirmPolandEngineering Manager, Backend (Collections)310k - 387k PLNSQL, Jupyter and AffirmPolandEngineering Manager (Developer Productivity)310k - 387k PLN. Searching one wording and not another is the most common way people miss vacancies, which is why this page groups them.
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