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 every day -- 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 Monetisation Platform team sits at the heart of Confluent as business strategy, enabling the company to grow by monetising products and features across Confluent Cloud - a fully managed multi-cloud solution. Our mission is to build a flexible, accurate, performant, and robust monetisation platform responsible for supporting flexible pricing and payments,  on-demand bill generation, etc. allowing Confluent to define and sell products globally

In this role, you will build accurate, reliable, scalable, and functionally rich systems in the cloud to support usage-based billing and pricing in the cloud that powers Confluent as revenue across all products and global markets. You will get an opportunity to work on business-critical flows from ideation to completion by closely collaborating with Product Managers, different engineering and business teams.

What You Will Do:

• Independently drive execution of complex technical projects end to end.

• Build mission-critical backend services that deliver value to our customers.

• You will play a crucial role in architecting, designing, developing and operationalizing high performance, scalable, reliable and resilient services

• Troubleshoot and debug technical issues inside a deep and complex technical stack that includes microservices, containers, and virtualization

• Ensure operational readiness of the services and meet the availability and performance SLA commitments to our customers 

What You Will Bring:

• At least 3 years of relevant experience

• Experience in architecting, designing, and developing highly scalable and performant backend services

• Deep knowledge of designing distributed systems in the Cloud 

• Experience in running production services in Public Clouds, with a drive towards quality, accuracy, and operational excellence

• Strong problem-solving and analytical/critical thinking skills with attention to details

• Proficiency in a major programming language e.g. Java, Go, C / C++, Python, etc.

• A strategic engineer who constantly thinks of operational improvements of the service to meet availability and performance SLA

• Comfortable with troubleshooting technical issues across services and multi-level technical stacks that includes microservices, containers, and virtualization

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills 

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, like discipline, or commensurate work experience

What Gives You an Edge:

• Large Public Clouds - AWS, GCP, & Azure

• Containers - Docker & Kubernetes

• Familiarity with Kafka or Kafka Connect

• SaaS platform development

Come As You Are

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