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:Do you have a passion for data that can turn events into outcomes, enabling intelligent, real-time apps, and empowering teams and systems to be able to act on data instantly? Have you ever dreamt about the opportunity to work with key agencies of the public sector? Confluent's team of Federal Site Reliability Engineers, will allow you to do just that by putting you in the driver seat to deliver highly performant, reliable systems that enable prominent public sector agencies to make real time decisions with their data to solve real time problems through Confluent Cloud. Confluent Cloud delivers a complete end-to-end streaming experience as a Software as a Service (SaaS) model.
What You Will Do:- Partner with our Cloud Architecture and Engineering teams to build upon the operational resiliency of the Confluent Cloud systems leveraged by federal agencies
- Collaborate broadly across teams to verify and deploy production changes to Confluent Cloud systems and infrastructure
- Be an active partner with peer engineering teams, engaging during incidents using an "escort model" to ensure compliance with FedRAMP data handling requirements
- Maintain critical monitoring used for triage and escalations in the federal space and improve upon automated recovery
- Adhere to established incident and changement processes and help drive continuous improvements
What You Will Bring:- To comply with U.S. federal government regulations, U.S. Citizenship is required for this position
- 3-5 years of relevant experience
- Expertise in Cloud Native technologies with experience operating production services in the cloud
- Strong fundamentals of Distributed Systems and their design
- Deep knowledge of Kubernetes and containerization
- Experience with telemetry tooling to monitor production systems
- Confidence with problem-solving and troubleshooting critical services
- Proficiency with scripting and automation (e.g Go, Java, Python, Bash)
- Working knowledge of infrastructure as code (e.g Terraform, Cloudformation, AWS CDK, Pulumi)
- Exceptional teamwork, collaboration skills, and the ability to act critically with minimal supervision at times in a remote first environment
- Experience with a rotating on-call schedule to provide 24/7 support
- BS Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
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.
