Senior Software Engineer

With Confluent, organisations can harness the full power of continuously flowing data to innovate and win in the modern digital world. We have a purpose that drives us to do better everyday – we're creating an entirely new category within data infrastructure - data streaming. This technology will allow every organisation to create experiences and use the power of data in ways that profoundly impact the way we all live. This impact is our purpose and drives us to do better every day.

One Confluent. One team. One Data Streaming Platform.

Data Connects Us.

About the Role:

The next big goal for Confluent is to make it as easy as possible for anyone to use Confluent’s products, including Kafka, to build their next killer streaming application. To do that we are building the Confluent Cloud which provides our products as a service in all the major public clouds. We are at the beginning of this engineering journey and are looking for great engineers to come join the world class team of engineers that are passionate about building and running large scale, multi-tenant distributed data systems for customers that expect a very high level of availability.

Kafka Connect allows you to build connectors to integrate Apache Kafka® with other apps and data systems. Confluent decided to take it one step further by offering an extensive portfolio of pre-built connectors, enabling you to modernize your entire data architecture even faster. Our connectors also provide you peace-of-mind with enterprise-grade security, reliability, compatibility, and support.

What You Will Do:

• We are looking for great engineers to come join the world-class team of engineers that are passionate about building and running large scale, multi-tenant distributed data systems for customers that expect a very high level of availability.
• You will solve challenging problems that will disrupt stream processing space Build a product that will leverage the scale of resources available in the cloud and on-prem environments!
• Improving the performance, scalability, and elasticity of Kafka Connectors
• Interacting with the Apache Kafka communities to provide technical guidance and thought leadership in the stream processing space
• Effectively communicate the roadmap and strategy within the team and across the organization

What You Will Bring:

• Overall 3+ years of experience in backend engineering.
• Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development
• Experience automation to operate large-scale data systems
• Solid experience working with large public clouds
• Proficiency in Java, Go, or C/ C++ and experience working with Kubernetes as well as Terraform
• Solid understanding of basic systems operations (disk, network, operating systems, etc)

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