Confluent - Senior Software Engineer II

IBM Software develops AI-powered, cloud-native products that help organizations address complex business challenges. The Senior Software Engineer II will design and operate scalable internal infrastructure services for Confluent Cloud, using Go, Kubernetes, public cloud, and reliability automation practices while supporting platform architecture and on-call operations.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and evolve internal infrastructure services written in Go, often as Kubernetes operators, that power the core platform behind Confluent Cloud
• Own the systems that make cloud infrastructure secure, scalable, observable, and reliable, using GitOps, Terraform, Prometheus, Grafana, and a strong foundation in Linux, networking, and public cloud
• Collaborate with engineers across Confluent to enable fast, safe, and autonomous deployment of services through shared platform tooling and best practices
• Take shared responsibility for the full lifecycle of our infrastructure: availability, performance, monitoring, incident response, and capacity planning
• Work on systems at scale, across tens of thousands of instances and multiple regions, with a focus on smooth, fast, and safe operations
• Influence the architecture and operational strategy behind the critical infrastructure that supports all of Confluent’s cloud services
• Participate in a 8-hour, follow-the-sun on-call rotation

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree
• Strong programming skills with the ability to read, debug, and evolve existing code (Go, Java, or Python) Deep understanding of systems internals (filesystems, memory, networking, kernel behavior) and large-scale system performance
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production and modern cloud-native ecosystems, including containers and public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Expertise in automation and reliability practices—GitOps, Terraform, CI/CD, observability—and experience diagnosing and improving complex systems
• Strong collaboration, communication, and ownership mindset, with the ability to operate independently in a distributed team
• Master's Degree