[Hiring] Senior Software Engineer @Confluent

Role Description

As a Software Engineer, Cloud Control Plane, you will be designing and implementing a distributed control plane used by product teams to manage the lifecycle of their Confluent Cloud offerings.

• Delve deep into the Kubernetes framework - we have K8S contributors working with us internally
• Provision infrastructure using a mixture of Terraform and internal tooling and deploy your changes using Helm
• Thrive working iteratively in a fast-paced Scrum environment where you'll use our product and be very much DevOps driven
• You'll be expected to not only ship code but also operate and support it before and after release - that includes having a deep understanding of what your code will run on

Qualifications

• Strong software design and implementation skills in building infrastructure frameworks
• Deep expertise in building distributed systems
• Experience with one or more of these programming languages - Go, C++, Java, or Python
• Experience in a full project lifecycle starting from zero lines of code to operating, observing and supporting a product as part of an on-call rota
• Solid understanding of Kubernetes and Docker

Requirements

• Experience in building control planes (virtualization, software-defined networking/storage)
• Experience building APIs - both RESTful and gRPC-based
• Familiarity with infra such as networking, storage, and security in data centres
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes operators, Helm, or StatefulSets
• Open source contributions to Kubernetes sigs or adjacent projects
• Experience with PBT, TDD, and pair programming

Benefits

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.

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