Senior Software Engineer

Confluent is a company focused on transforming how data moves with their innovative data streaming platform. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to develop and maintain services for Kafka clusters, ensuring they meet performance and availability goals while collaborating with peers to innovate and enhance customer experiences.

Responsibilities:

• Independently drive the design and execution of complex projects end to end
• Contribute to the advancement of the Kafka control plane systems and services
• Work with customers to understand their requirement and making them successful
• Represents the team in cross-functional design/architecture meetings
• Provide guidance and mentorship to other engineers
• Collaborate with other engineers and make decision which benefits Apache Kafka and Confluent

Requirements:

• BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience
• 2+ years of relevant experience in distributed systems, query and stream processing
• Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development
• Experience building and operating highly scalable and performant systems
• 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 or other statically typed languages
• A strong background in distributed storage systems or databases
• Experience/knowledge with public clouds (AWS, Azure or GCP)