Principal Kafka jobs in California

6 open right now — Principal roles, mentioning Kafka, in California. Read straight from companies’ own boards, and every listing links to the original posting.

Of the 6 newest shown here, 6 state pay and 1 are remote, from 3 employers.

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  Principal Architect - Distributed Systems & Agentic AI Security, Governance

  Adobe · San Jose, CA

  Full-timePrincipal

  $190K – $361K/yr · posted 1 month ago
• S

  Backend Software Development Engineer - Mid/Senior/Lead/Principal

  Salesforce · San Francisco, CA

  Full-timePrincipal

  $117K – $314K/yr · posted 2 months ago
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  Principal Engineer, Cloud Site Reliability Engineering

  NVIDIA · Santa Clara, CA

  No longer listedFull-timePrincipal

  $272K – $431K/yr
• A

  Principal Architect, Express AI Foundations

  Adobe · San Jose, CA

  No longer listedFull-timePrincipal

  $206K – $379K/yr
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  Principal Architect

  Adobe · Hybrid — San Jose, CA

  HybridFull-timePrincipal

  $190K – $361K/yr · posted 3 months ago
• N

  Principal Data Scientist - Cloud Gaming and AI

  NVIDIA · Remote (United States)

  RemoteNo longer listedFull-timePrincipal

  $248K – $380K/yr