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# Confluent - Staff Software Engineer - WarpStream

- **Company:** IBM
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** HTML, Java (Programming Language), JavaScript (Programming Language), Amazon Web Services, Systems Engineering, Microsoft Azure, C++ (Programming Language), Code Review, Distributed Systems, Python (Programming Language), Cloud Services, Software Engineering, Database Engines, Data Streaming, Google Cloud, Backend, Apache Kafka, Confluent, Golang, Programming Languages
- **Published:** October 2, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/5C885B0D52F7462A87901105E0A1826F/job/

## About the Role

5+ years industry experience designing, building, scaling and supporting backend systems in production with a solid grasp on good software engineering practices such as code reviews, deep focus on quality, and documentation

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Strong programming and algorithmic skills. Proficiency in a major programming language, e.g. Java, Go, C / C++, Python, etc

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Deep curiosity and enthusiasm for distributed systems and storage systems

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Strong focus on project delivery and communication skills

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Experience in driving operational excellence for large production services

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A strong sense of customer centricity, teamwork, technical leadership and mentorship and are excited about team and company success

Preferred technical and professional experience

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Proven track record of delivering large-scale, highly available, high quality systems

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Hands-on technical expertise in large scale systems engineering or distributed systems

## Description

WarpStream is an Apache Kafka compatible data streaming platform built directly on top of object storage with zero local disks. It's delivered to customers as a BYOC-style offering. The WarpStream team is responsible for this product offering from top to bottom, and as a Senior Engineer you'll do everything from working on the storage engine running in the Agents, improving the scalability of our multi-tenant control plane, implementing new features like transactions, active-active multi-regions clusters, and even write some HTML/Javascript for our developer console. We're a small team of < 15 engineers, so you'll be expected to work across the entire stack from bashing bits at the network level to making sure our UI provides a great developer experience.

You will have an opportunity to solve complex distributed systems problems at scale. You will build services that can operate across different cloud service providers like AWS, GCP, and Azure. You'll be on-call for all of it.

The WarpStream team is fully remote and geographically distributed, currently we have engineers in: Spain, France, Canada, Ireland, and the USA.

What You Will Do:

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Independently drive execution of complex technical projects end to end.


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