Confluent - Senior Software Engineer - Backend

IBM Software develops AI-powered, cloud-native products and solutions, with Confluent providing near-real-time data streaming capabilities. The Senior Software Engineer will build and operate secure, reliable, and scalable backend services for Confluent Cloud’s networking platform, owning projects end to end and collaborating across teams on distributed systems, APIs, reliability, and automation.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and operate backend services that are secure, reliable, and scalable in a cloud-native environment
• Own features and projects end to end: requirements, design, implementation, testing, rollout, and ongoing improvements
• Work with distributed systems and microservices, with a focus on performance, resiliency, and clear API contracts
• Contribute to service reliability and operations, including monitoring, alerting, and on-call participation where applicable
• Collaborate with partner teams on architecture, data modeling, and integration points across Confluent’s platform
• Write clean, well-tested, and well-documented code, and participate in code reviews that raise the bar for the team
• Help improve engineering practices, tools, and automation to make it easier and safer to ship code
• Contribute to a healthy team culture through clear communication, inclusive collaboration, and a willingness to learn and teach

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree
• 2-5 years of experience building distributed, highly available backend systems in production; experience with cloud infrastructure is a strong plus
• Hands-on experience designing and operating large-scale services with clear API contracts and end-to-end lifecycle ownership
• Solid systems-level understanding of networking, OS, and storage tradeoffs relevant to backend infrastructure
• Proficiency in at least one programming language, such as Go, Java, or C++, with the ability to work effectively in others as needed
• Experience with public cloud and Kubernetes/containerized environments
• A self-starter with the ability to work effectively in teams
• BS, MS in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience
• Some travel may be required based on business demand
• IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship
• Master's Degree
• A networking background combined with your software engineering experience