Senior Software Engineer - Confluent Cloud Platform

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About the Role:

The Confluent Cloud Platform based on Apache Kafka is the leading Cloud Native Platform as a Service for streaming data infrastructure, but this is just the beginning. We are building a PaaS enabling customer around the globe to deliver streaming applications.

What You Will Do:

• 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

What You Will Bring:

• BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience

• 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 Go, Python, C++, or other statically typed languages

• Experience/knowledge with public clouds (AWS, Azure or GCP)

What Gives You an Edge:

• Experience with Golang is advantageous

• Experience using Apache Kafka is a big plus