We're not just building better tech. We're rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn't sit still. Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real-time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them.
It takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together.
One Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.
About the Role:The team's charter includes building the next-generation Telemetry Platform to enable our Confluent Cloud platform to achieve 10x the current scale. The Telemetry Platform enables collection of metrics and traces from services in our data and control planes to provide insights for service operators and customers of Confluent Cloud. As a senior software engineer, you will collaborate closely with the team and essential stakeholders to design, architect, and develop our secure multi-tenant Cloud Platform and raise the bar for observability features. You will have an opportunity to solve complex distributed systems problems at scale. You will build services that can operate across different cloud service providers like AWS, GCP, and Azure.
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:- 3+ years of industry experience designing, building, scaling, and supporting backend systems in production with a solid grasp on good software engineering practices such as code reviews, deep focus on quality, and documentation
- Strong programming and algorithmic skills. Proficiency in a major programming language, e.g. Java, Go, C / C++, Python, etc.
- Experience configuring and deploying distributed systems and microservices using modern tools, e.g. Kubernetes, Helm, etc.
- Strong focus on project delivery and communication skills
- Experience in driving operational excellence for large, production services
- A strong sense of customer centricity, teamwork, technical leadership and mentorship and are excited about team and company success
- BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience
What Gives You an Edge:- Proven track record of delivering large-scale, highly available, low latency, high quality systems.
- Hands-on technical expertise in large scale systems engineering or distributed systems.
- On-call experience handling critical systems.
- Experience within observability concepts, products, and components, e.g. metrics, traces, logging, Datadog, New Relic, Grafana, OpenTelemetry
Ready to build what's next? Let's get in motion.Come As You AreBelonging isn't a perk here. It's the baseline. We work across time zones and backgrounds, knowing the best ideas come from different perspectives. And we make space for everyone to lead, grow, and challenge what's possible.
We're proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Employment decisions are based on job-related criteria, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other classification protected by law.
