Senior Software Engineer - Confluent Cloud Platform

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

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, BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience

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

What Gives You an Edge:

Experience with Golang is advantageous

Experience using Apache Kafka is a big plus