Key skills
Backend software developmentDistributed systemsCloud infrastructureSecurity domainsOperational expertiseCollaboration skillsMentoring engineersTechnical design reviewsIncident managementcommunicationPythonJavaGoRustAWSAzureGCPKubernetesEnvoyIAMIdentity ManagementIstioService MeshLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationZero Trust
About this role
Confluent is a company focused on transforming how data moves and is utilized. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer II to architect, build, and operate core services for their cloud infrastructure and product platforms, emphasizing scalability, security, and operational excellence.
Responsibilities:
- Architect, design, and develop platform services with a strong focus on scalability, security, and developer experience
- Lead operational design for reliability: build comprehensive observability, monitoring, and incident response automation into security-critical services
- Build automation and tooling to drive self-healing systems, proactive risk detection, failure recovery, and continuous resilience testing
- Collaborate with compliance, governance, and risk teams to translate regulatory and policy requirements into scalable technical controls
- Lead technical design reviews, security architecture reviews, and incident postmortems for platform-level incidents
- Mentor engineers across multiple disciplines on both security and operational best practices
- Own end-to-end delivery of services: from initial design and development through deployment, production hardening, and lifecycle maintenance
Requirements:
- 6+ years of experience in software engineering, SRE, or security engineering roles, with significant experience operating security platform services
- Strong backend software development experience (Go, Java, Rust, Python)
- Expertise with distributed systems, cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure), Kubernetes, service mesh, and container orchestration
- Strong understanding of security domains: IAM, OAuth2, OIDC, PKI, secrets management, policy engines, audit pipelines, zero trust architecture
- Experience building highly reliable, observable, and resilient production systems
- Operational expertise: SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, on-call leadership, incident management
- Strong collaboration skills to drive alignment across engineering, security, and compliance stakeholders
- Excellent communication skills with ability to influence technical and business leaders
- BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience
- Experience with SPIFFE/SPIRE, OPA/Gatekeeper, Envoy, Istio, and workload identity management
- Exposure to security compliance frameworks (FedRAMP)
- Experience leading cross-org security platform architecture initiatives