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# Confluent - Senior Software Engineer II

- **Company:** IBM
- **Location:** Seattle, WA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, C++ (Programming Language), Cloud Computing, Distributed Systems, Python (Programming Language), Linux Kernel, Software Engineering, Computer Networking Systems, Containerization, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Apache Kafka, Free and Open-Source Software, Confluent, Golang, Microservices
- **Published:** October 16, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.seattlejobs.com/job.asp?id=3451625952&tx=VT6459TTT&pt=1&aff=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54&utm_source=Job%20Feed&utm_medium=textkernel&utm_campaign=DE&utm_term=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54

## About the Role

* Education in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience
 * 5+ years of 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 C++, Go, Python, or other statically typed languages
 * Experience with public clouds (AWS, Azure or GCP)

Preferred technical and professional experience

 * Experience with Kubernetes Networking
 * Experience with Envoy proxy
 * Experience with Linux kernel networking, eBPF is a huge plus
 * A Strong networking background combined with your software engineering experience

## Description

To realize Confluent's enormous potential, we are looking for software engineers, at various levels, to grow our Traffic team which is responsible for building and managing the networking fabric of Confluent Cloud.

Cloud networking is a strategic investment area for Confluent with the potential to impact the company's top and bottom line. The data plane area in the Traffic team focuses on the performance, security, reliability, and cost optimizations for all traffic that ingresses and egresses a customer's Kafka cluster on Confluent Cloud.

We are looking for someone with an interest in building large-scale distributed systems, with a focus on building and managing network data planes for containerized workloads in the cloud. The ideal candidate would be passionate about network data plane performance, scale, cost optimizations, and building robust software.

What You Will Do

 * Build the software underpinning the mission-critical Confluent Cloud network data plane platform. You will play a crucial role in designing, developing and operationalizing high performance, scalable, reliable and resilient systems
 * Independently drive execution of software projects to deliver complex projects in production with a focus on quality
 * Build upon open source software 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