Confluent

Software Engineer - WarpStream

Confluent$130K — $180K *
US-AnywhereRemote in Utah, US
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years industry experience in backend systems design, development, and support
  • Strong programming skills in languages like Java, Go, C/C++, or Python
  • Experience with operational excellence in production services
  • Deep curiosity about distributed and storage systems
  • Strong project delivery and communication skills
  • Ability to foster teamwork and provide technical leadership

Responsibilities

  • Drive execution of complex technical projects independently
  • Build backend services that are scalable and reliable
  • Troubleshoot and debug issues in a complex technical stack
  • Ensure the operational readiness of services to meet SLAs
  • Architect and design high-performance services

Benefits

  • Fully remote work with a geographically distributed team
  • Opportunity to work on cutting-edge data streaming technology
  • Diverse and inclusive workplace that values different perspectives
  • Mentorship and technical leadership opportunities
  • Focus on employee belonging and career growth
Full Job Description
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:

WarpStream is an Apache Kafka compatible data streaming platform built directly on top of object storage with zero local disks. It's delivered to customers as a BYOC-style offering. The WarpStream team is responsible for this product offering from top to bottom, and as a Senior Engineer you'll do everything from working on the storage engine running in the Agents, improving the scalability of our multi-tenant control plane, implementing new features like transactions, active-active multi-regions clusters, and even write some HTML/Javascript for our developer console. We're a small team of
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. You'll be on-call for all of it.

The WarpStream team is fully remote and geographically distributed, currently we have engineers in: Spain, France, Canada, Ireland, and the USA.

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:
  • 10+ years 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
  • Deep curiosity and enthusiasm for distributed systems and storage systems
  • 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


What Gives You an Edge:
  • Proven track record of delivering large-scale, highly available, high quality systems
  • Hands-on technical expertise in large scale systems engineering or distributed systems
  • On-call experience handling critical systems


Ready to build what's next? Let's get in motion.

Come As You Are

Belonging 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.

About Confluent

Confluent is an American software company that provides a streaming platform based on Apache Kafka. The company was founded in 2014 by the creators of Apache Kafka and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. Confluent's platform enables companies to easily access data as real-time streams, making it easier to build and manage real-time data pipelines and applications. The company's platform is used by a variety of industries, including financial services, healthcare, and retail.
Learn more about Confluent
Size
1,000 employees
Market Cap
$6 billion
Industry
Founded
2014
NASDAQ

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