Senior Software Engineer - Confluent

• Design, implement and maintain Golang infrastructure services (typically implemented as Kubernetes operators) to deliver the Confluent cloud foundations to the wider engineering organization
• Terraform, Datadog, Prometheus and a strong command of Linux, public cloud and networking should come as standard - though Golang software engineering will be your primary focus
• As a Confluent Cloud Infrastructure Software Engineer, you will be working alongside the rest of the Confluent engineers to build our PaaS product
• You, and the rest of the team, will be responsible for the availability, performance, monitoring, emergency response, and capacity planning of the Confluent cloud
• If you love the hum of big data systems covering 10,000's of instances, thinking about how to make them run as smoothly and securely as possible, and want to have a big influence on the architecture plus operational design points of this new product, then you will fit right in

Required technical and professional expertise

• Relevant cloud infrastructure/cloud networking experience
• Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development
• Experience building and operating large-scale 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 Go, Python, C++, or other statically typed languages
• Experience/knowledge with public clouds (AWS, Azure or GCP)

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Experience with Golang is advantageous
• Experience using Apache Kafka is a big plus