Senior Software Engineer II

Description

With Confluent, organizations 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 every day – we're creating an entirely new category within data infrastructure - data streaming. This technology will allow every organization 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 Confluent's products, including Kafka, to build their next killer streaming application. We are at the beginning of this journey and are looking for great engineers to come join our world-class team that is passionate about building and running large-scale, multi-tenant distributed systems for customers that expect a very high level of availability.

Backend engineers in the Traffic Control Plane team at Confluent work on a set of diverse and complex challenges that power all provisioning and lifecycle management of the Network resources in Confluent Cloud

What You Will Do:

• Independently drive execution of technical projects end to end.
• Build mission-critical backend services that deliver value to our customers. You will play a crucial role in designing, developing, and operationalizing high-performance, scalable, reliable, and resilient services
• Troubleshoot and debug technical issues in a technical stack that includes microservices, containers, and virtualization
• Ensure operational readiness of the services to meet SLA commitments to our customers

What You Will Bring:

• 4+ years industry experience designing, building, scaling, and supporting backend systems in production
• Solid grasp on good software engineering practices such as code reviews, quality, and documentation
• Strong programming and algorithmic skills. Proficiency in a major programming language like Java, Go, C / C++, Python, etc.
• Strong focus on project delivery and communication skills
• Experience in driving operational excellence for production services
• A strong sense of customer-centricity, teamwork, and mentorship.
• BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience

Come As You Are

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