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# Senior Software Engineer II - Confluent

- **Company:** IBM
- **Location:** Hursley, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Big Data, C++ (Programming Language), Cloud Computing, Linux, Distributed Systems, Python (Programming Language), Platform as a Service (PAAS), Prometheus, Software Engineering, Datadog, Kubernetes, Apache Kafka, Terraform, Confluent, Golang
- **Published:** June 28, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/15A4C4FC883A4F19A0DAE74121DC29E4/job/

## About the Role

Required technical and professional expertise

 * Extensive demonstrated 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

 * Experience with Golang is advantageous
 * Experience using Apache Kafka is a big plus

## Description

* Design, implement and maintain Golang infrastructure services (typically implemented as Kubernetes operators) to deliver the Confluent cloud foundations to the wider engineering organization
 * 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
 * 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


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