Confluent is a company that is transforming how data moves and what organizations can achieve with it. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their Traffic team, which focuses on managing the networking fabric of Confluent Cloud, ensuring high performance and reliability of data traffic.
Responsibilities:
- Build the software underpinning the mission-critical Confluent Cloud network data plane platform. You will play a crucial role in designing, developing and operationalizing high performance, scalable, reliable and resilient systems
- Independently drive execution of software projects to deliver complex projects in production with a focus on quality
- Build upon open source software to deliver business impact
- Troubleshoot issues and improve ops for complex technical stack that spans all the 3 clouds and includes microservices, containers, and virtualization
Requirements:
- 2-5 years of relevant cloud infrastructure/cloud networking experience
- Experience/knowledge with public clouds (AWS, Azure or GCP)
- Practical experience with Kubernetes and containerization technologies
- Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development
- Experience building and operating large-scale systems
- Solid understanding at a systems level (disk, network, operating systems, etc)
- Proficiency in C++, Go, Python, or other statically typed languages
- A self-starter with the ability to work effectively in teams
- BS, MS in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience
- A Strong networking background combined with your software engineering experience