Key skills
Cloud infrastructure experienceDistributed systems designLarge-scale systems operationJavaScalaC/C++GoPublic cloud experienceTeamworkProblem-solvingCustomer focusSelf-starterC++CKafkaAWSAzureGCP
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 build and enhance Kora, a managed service that ensures high availability and performance in cloud environments, while tackling complex distributed systems and infrastructure challenges.
Responsibilities:
- Driven and excited about challenges of delivering complex projects in production with a focus on quality
- Customer focused - making customers more successful by taking on their most challenging problems motivates you
- Have a strong sense of teamwork and able to make decisions which benefit the team and company
- Identify root causes, and get beyond treating symptoms - motivated to dig deep and solve hard problems
Requirements:
- BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience
- 4+ years of relevant cloud infrastructure/cloud networking experience
- Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development
- Experience building and operating large-scale systems in the Cloud
- Solid understanding of basic systems operations (disk, network, operating systems, etc)
- A self starter with the ability to work effectively in teams
- Proficiency in Java, Scala, C/C++, Go or other statically typed languages
- In-depth familiarity with the JVM
- A strong background in distributed storage systems or databases
- Experience in the areas of resource management and QoS
- Experience/knowledge with public clouds (AWS, Azure or GCP)
- Interest in evangelism (giving talks at tech conferences, writing blog posts evangelizing Kafka)
- Experience working on databases or data storage