Staff Software Engineer II – Confluent Cloud Infrastructure & Platform

IBM is hiring a Staff Software Engineer II to build and operate the network data plane platform for Confluent Cloud. The role focuses on architecting scalable, reliable cloud networking systems, leading infrastructure initiatives, and improving operations across cloud environments.

Responsibilities:

• Build the software underpinning the mission-critical Confluent Cloud network data plane platform. You will play a crucial role in architecting, designing, developing and operationalizing high performance, scalable, reliable and resilient systems
• Deliver high impact to the business by driving important technical initiatives in areas comprising (but not limited to) networking, cloud infrastructure, and multi-tenancy
• Independently drive execution of software projects as well as technically lead a team of engineers to deliver impact in production with a focus on quality
• Build upon open source software and engage with the upstream community to deliver business impact
• Troubleshoot issues and improve ops for complex technical stack that spans all the 3 clouds and includes microservices, containers, and virtualization

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree
• 10+ years of relevant cloud infrastructure/cloud networking experience
• Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development
• Experience building and operating large-scale systems
• Experience leading a team of engineers and working cross-team to deliver complex infrastructure projects
• Solid understanding of basic systems operations (storage, network, operating systems, etc.)
• Proficiency in C++, Go, Python, or other statically typed languages
• Experience/knowledge with public clouds (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Experience building and managing Layer 7 proxies, especially cloud-native proxies such as Envoy
• Master's Degree
• Open source contributions to CNCF projects
• Experience with Kubernetes Networking
• Strong networking background combined with your software engineering experience
• Education in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience