The role requires the ability to read, troubleshoot, and guide improvements to application code; design automation, APIs, integrations, collectors, dashboards, Kafka-aware telemetry flows, and reusable tooling; and help engineering teams adopt observability as part of day-to-day software delivery. Strong Kafka or event streaming platform experience, including producers, consumers, topics, partitions, consumer groups, Kafka Connect, event-driven integration patterns, consumer lag analysis, throughput troubleshooting, and monitoring of Kafka-based services.