Senior Software Engineer

With Confluent, organisations can harness the full power of continuously flowing data to innovate and win in the modern digital world

We have a purpose that drives us to do better everyday we're creating an entirely new category within data infrastructure data streaming

This technology will allow every organisation to create experiences and use the power of data in ways that profoundly impact the way we all live

This impact is our purpose and drives us to do better every day

One Confluent

One team

One Data Streaming Platform

Data Connects Us

About The Role

The next big goal for Confluent is to make it as easy as possible for anyone to use Confluents products, including Kafka, to build their next killer streaming application

To do that we are building the Confluent Cloud which provides our products as a service in all the major public clouds

We are at the beginning of this engineering journey and are looking for great engineers to come join the world class team of engineers that are passionate about building and running large scale, multi-tenant distributed data systems for customers that expect a very high level of availability

Kafka Connect allows you to build connectors to integrate Apache Kafkawith other apps and data systems

Confluent decided to take it one step further by offering an extensive portfolio of pre-built connectors, enabling you to modernize your entire data architecture even faster

Our connectors also provide you peace-of-mind with enterprise-grade security, reliability, compatibility, and support

What You Will Do

We are looking for great engineers to come join the world-class team of engineers that are passionate about building and running large scale, multi-tenant distributed data systems for customers that expect a very high level of availability

You will solve challenging problems that will disrupt stream processing space Build a product that will leverage the scale of resources available in the cloud and on-prem environments!

Improving the performance, scalability, and elasticity of Kafka Connectors

Interacting with the Apache Kafka communities to provide technical guidance and thought leadership in the stream processing space

Effectively communicate the roadmap and strategy within the team and across the organization

What You Will Bring

Overall 3+ years of experience in backend engineering

Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development

Experience automation to operate large-scale data systems

Solid experience working with large public clouds

Proficiency in Java, Go, or C/ C++ and experience working with Kubernetes as well as Terraform

Solid understanding of basic systems operations (disk, network, operating systems, etc)

Come As You Are

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We are committed to building an inclusive global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences

The more diverse we are, the richer our community and the broader our impact

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