Your role and responsibilities
The Cloud Reliability team at Confluent builds the infrastructure and tooling that keeps Confluent Cloud reliable, secure, and operable at scale. We build the systems that human operators and automated tools depend on to act on Confluent's compute environment, query infrastructure state, and automate remediation. Teams across Confluent rely on what we build to investigate incidents, run operational workflows, and enforce security protections across services.
We are looking for engineers with a passion for building and operating large-scale distributed systems in the cloud. This role provides an opportunity to work on complex infrastructure challenges across multiple domains, including distributed coordination, security and access control, workflow orchestration, and observability.
What You Will Do:- Design, implement, and maintain highly scalable infrastructure and internal tooling.
- Engineer core software systems that empower organizational workflows, incident management, and automated troubleshooting.
- Solve complex distributed systems problems related to coordination, orchestration, and fault tolerance in massive environments.
- Optimize the availability, monitoring capabilities, and efficiency of mission-critical, Tier-0 services.
- Enhance system security through robust access management, adherence to least-privilege principles, and comprehensive auditing.
- Partner with cross-functional engineering teams to increase operational velocity and safety via advanced automation.
Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Master's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
- Deep technical foundation in distributed systems and cloud-scale infrastructure.
- Proven track record of developing and managing mission-critical, high-availability production environments.
- Advanced proficiency with Kubernetes and cloud-native architectural patterns.
- Fluency in Go or similar statically typed languages, with the ability to navigate a polyglot environment.
- Demonstrated initiative and analytical skills to thrive within a high-velocity organizational culture.
Preferred technical and professional experience
- Proven expertise across specialized domains, including distributed coordination, security protocols, workflow management, or performance optimization.
- Hands-on experience developing service-to-service infrastructure utilizing gRPC or service mesh technologies.
- Technical familiarity with functional programming paradigms, such as Elixir.
- Track record of building advanced workflow tooling for operational automation, including AI-driven systems.
OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILSMust have the ability to work in Canada without sponsorship.
This role will involve working with technology that is covered by Export Regulations sanctions. If you are a Foreign National from any of the following US sanctioned countries (Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and the Crimea, Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhia regions of Ukraine) on a work permit, you are not eligible for employment in this position.
The salary range for the position is based on a full-time schedule. Your ultimate salary within this range may vary depending on your job-related skills and experience for this position.
