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# Confluent - Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Compute Platform

- **Company:** IBM
- **Location:** Bellevue, WA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Code Review, Disaster Recovery, Distributed Systems, Protocol Buffers, Google Cloud, Grafana, Multi-Cloud, Kubernetes, Performance Monitor, Api Design, Grpc, Confluent
- **Published:** November 12, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/a1c2f8b4-db38-4feb-a875-801a04b3d4b5

## About the Role

* Track record of working collaboratively across teams including product management, SRE, and other engineering teams Preferred Skills * Experience with observability tools and operational excellence practices * Experience with multi-cloud environments (AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Azure) and cloud-provider integrations * Track record of providing technical leadership and mentorship * A smart, humble, and empathetic attitude with a strong sense of teamwork * Drive and excitement about the challenges of a fast-paced, innovative software environment * Familiarity with gRPC, Protobuf, and API design for internal platform services Additional Details (US) IBM offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program. Eligible employees may have access to: - Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being - Financial programs such as 401(k), cash balance pension plan, the IBM Employee Stock Purchase

## Description

areas such as workload scheduling, disruption management, network isolation, rolling update strategies, and cross-cluster resource management * Lead technical design reviews and drive architectural decisions across organizational boundaries * Mentor and grow other engineers on the team through code reviews, pairing, and technical guidance * Own operational aspects including availability, reliability, performance monitoring, emergency response, and disaster recovery for our global compute infrastructure Required Skills * 5+ years of experience delivering scalable software solutions * Proven track record of leading the delivery of large-scale, highly available, low-latency systems * Deep expertise in Kubernetes including controller development, operator patterns, and multi-cluster architectures * Strong proficiency in Go with experience building production-grade distributed systems * Experience with multi-tenant platform architectures and security isolation patterns