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# Senior Software Engineer II - Confluent Cloud Platform

- **Company:** IBM
- **Location:** Markham, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Code Review, Computer Programming, Shard (Database Architecture), Distributed Data Store, Amazon DynamoDB, Data Streaming, Backend, Kubernetes, Cassandra, Apache Kafka, Confluent
- **Published:** September 9, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.collegerecruiter.com/job/2856365770-senior-software-engineer-ii-confluent-cloud-platform

## About the Role

* 6+ years of industry experience designing, building, and operating large-scale backend services in production
 * Strong programming and algorithmic skills, with proficiency in a major language (Go or similar)
 * Strong command of concurrency and correctness - reasoning about and preventing race conditions
 * Hands-on experience with distributed data stores (DynamoDB, Cosmos, Spanner, Cassandra, or similar)
 * Experience with at least one major cloud (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
 * Observability and operational excellence - SLOs, on-call, incident response, and postmortems
 * High ownership and drive - self-managed execution with velocity in a fast-paced platform team
 * Strong engineering practices - code review, testing, documentation, and clear written and verbal communication

Preferred Technical And Professional Experience

 * Familiarity with Kubernetes operators and controller patterns
 * Event streaming experience - Kafka, event ordering, idempotency, and at-least/exactly-once delivery

## Description

* Build and evolve the metadata platform - the read, write, and streaming APIs
 * Solve hard distributed-systems problems - availability, consistency, sharding, scaling
 * Design, build, and operate resilient, scalable systems across a stack spanning multiple clouds and services
 * Independently drive projects - spot high-impact gap


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