Top 10 highest paying companies that use Kafka

$165k–$185k for Senior Software Engineer, $145k–$160k for Senior Software Engineer – Front End, $175k–$190k for Director of Risk Operations, Base $120k–$140k plus Commission $60k, OTE $180k–$200k for Account Manager, Base $155k–$175k plus Commission $150k, OTE $305k–$325k for Enterprise Account Executive

Moov powers infinite payment use cases with full data transparency. However you decide to orchestrate the motion of money: pay by bank, pay by card, disburse to a Moov wallet or linked bank account with same-day ACH or RTP®, or spend with an issued card—we’ve got you covered.

$200k–$325k + equity

Moment builds core infrastructure for fixed-income (4M+ instruments, $150T total market) and works with large financial institutions. They've built a liquidity-aware portfolio optimizer, high-cardinality market data pipelines, and a trading system and ledger. Backend stack is primarily Go/Kafka/Postgres on ECS with some Python services; frontend uses NextJS. Company tools include Slack, Linear, Notion. Roles: Distributed Systems Engineer to build and scale systems for a complex domain; Product Engineer to build powerful user interfaces for asset managers, advisors, and traders. See and apply at https://moment.com/careers.

$150K-$300K +equity, depending on role and expertise.

Matroid brings cutting edge computer vision to visual inspection, with a “no programming required” product that empowers businesses and industry to solve their unique inspection challenges. We’re a rapidly growing Series B funded startup, with customers in the manufacturing and video security industries. We’re looking for top engineers - both junior and senior - who are excited about solving hard problems in and alongside computer vision and productizing it to serve real-world use-cases.

IC principal roles range $198K–$273K base + equity. Engineering management roles start around $169K base + equity. Compensation described as competitive.

Hiring across engineering in Austin, TX (onsite) for individual contributor and management roles at all levels. Work on a large-scale Ruby on Rails monolith serving thousands of concurrent users, plus frontend and supporting services using React, TypeScript and Node.js. Responsibilities include performance, scalability, developer experience, streaming data infrastructure, mobile platform devops, and security.

$140 - $250k + equity

We are looking for a full-time Frontend and Backend Engineer to build out Godel Terminal, a professional web-based financial terminal software offering comprehensive financial and investment data.

Base: $200,000 - $250,000 USD + Equity, Bonuses, Unlimited PTO and other benefits

Hiring 7+ years Senior or Staff (Principal) engineers to join as founding members at a stealth AI-security startup (seed $15M) in NYC. Ship end-to-end: design → production → detection stories used daily. Prefer experience at scale (Google/Meta/AWS/Abnormal/Wiz).

$144-$236k, excellent benefits package including paid time off, competitive salary commensurate with experience

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is looking for a Lead Engineer for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s US Data Facility (USDF). Rubin Observatory is an ambitious scientific project to study the nature of Dark Energy and Dark Matter, distant galaxies and quasars, our Milky Way Galaxy and Solar System, and a wide range of time-variable objects throughout the Universe. In 2025 Rubin is launching the 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) using the world's largest digital camera mounted on a dedicated telescope at an excellent astronomical observing site in the Chilean Andes to build an unprecedented digital imaging database for research in astrophysics and cosmology. As the Lead Engineer for Rubin's USDF, you will own the interface between science operations and data infrastructure. We are looking for a generalist who is excited to work with both scientists and engineers to enable transformative new discoveries in data-intensive astrophysics.

$190k–$225k base salary, 0.10%–0.50% equity, yearly remote office stipend

Remote-first, Series A startup building a User Research CRM. Role is central to scaling systems to power hundreds of millions of participant records and billions of events. Own core infrastructure such as email/SMS delivery, data pipelines, search, and workflow automation; help lay the foundation for new AI-driven features. Small, senior team; values craftsmanship and building for scale. No prior TypeScript experience required but willingness to learn.

$140k - $213k

Skylight is one of Ai2's groundbreaking AI for Conservation programs, dedicated to protecting the world’s oceans by combating illegal fishing. Our advanced AI-powered platform delivers real-time vessel detections and actionable insights that empower enforcement agencies globally to protect marine ecosystems. We’re hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to help us build pipelines to ingest huge quantities of vessel position and satellite imagery data, and use it to train and run inference on state-of-the-art geospatial ML models. As a non-profit, we take pride in holding ourselves accountable to global impact, rather than traditional metrics like user counts and revenue. This team is small and scrappy, and is looking for a passionate person and awesome coder to join us.

140K - 210K + equity

Here at blockchain.com we’ve been building products for the digital asset ecosystem since 2011. We started as an open source project and today are a Series B company with a specific focus on growing our Engineering teams in San Francisco and London this year. We have 10 people in the San Francisco office 6 of which is Engineering. Additionally we have around 120 people in our London office across all functions. This is a unique opportunity to join a well funded company with high growth potential (our competitors in the space have 10 - 15 billion dollar valuations). Our Eng priorities this year are to continue to expand the functionality of our suite of products as well as develop one new product later in the year.