Your role and responsibilities
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.
About The RoleThe CLI/Terraform team is at the forefront of how customers manage and automate Confluent, building the tools and frameworks that turn Confluent's APIs into dependable developer experiences. With roughly 70% of customers using the CLI or Terraform and the Terraform Provider surpassing 474 million downloads, the team is critical to making Confluent easier to operate, automate, and integrate at scale.
What You Will Do- Design, implement, test, and maintain features in the Confluent CLI and Terraform Provider, primarily using Go
- Turn Confluent APIs into intuitive CLI commands and Terraform resources that customers can use in production automation
- Work with service teams across Confluent to deliver new integrations and ensure a consistent experience across both products
- Write automated tests, participate in code reviews, and follow established engineering and release practices
- Investigate customer-reported issues and contribute fixes that improve reliability, performance, and usability
- Contribute to shared frameworks, validation systems, and tooling that help service teams build and maintain their own integrations
- Participate in operational support and learn to diagnose issues across APIs, cloud services, and customer environments
Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Master's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
- BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience
- 1-4 years of relevant software-development experience
- Strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, software design, and API development
- Proficiency in Go, Java, Python, C++, or another modern programming language
- Experience writing, testing, debugging, and maintaining production-quality software
- An understanding of REST APIs, versioning, and backward compatibility
- A self-starter with the ability to learn quickly and work effectively within a team
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- An interest in developer tooling, infrastructure as code, cloud platforms, and distributed systems
Preferred technical and professional experience
- Experience developing software in Go
- Experience using Terraform or developing Terraform Providers
- Experience building command-line tools or developer-facing APIs
- Familiarity with the Terraform Plugin Framework or Terraform Plugin SDK
- Experience contributing to or maintaining open-source software
- Experience with Apache Kafka, Confluent Cloud, AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
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.
