About the Role:

The Confluent Cloud Platform based on Apache Kafka is the leading Cloud Native Platform as a Service for streaming data infrastructure, but this is just the beginning. We are building a PaaS, enabling customers around the globe to deliver streaming applications.

What You Will Do:

• Design, build, and evolve internal infrastructure services written in Go, often as Kubernetes operators, that power the core platform behind Confluent Cloud

• Own the systems that make cloud infrastructure secure, scalable, observable, and reliable, using GitOps, Terraform, Prometheus, Grafana, and a strong foundation in Linux, networking, and public cloud

• Collaborate with engineers across Confluent to enable fast, safe, and autonomous deployment of services through shared platform tooling and best practices

• Take shared responsibility for the full lifecycle of our infrastructure: availability, performance, monitoring, incident response, and capacity planning

• Work on systems at scale, across tens of thousands of instances and multiple regions, with a focus on smooth, fast, and safe operations

• Influence the architecture and operational strategy behind the critical infrastructure that supports all of Confluent’s cloud services

• Participate in a 12-hour, follow-the-sun on-call rotation.

What You Will Bring:

• Strong programming skills, with a focus on reading, debugging, and evolving existing code in languages like Go, Java, or Python

• Solid understanding of systems internals, including filesystems, memory management, network stacks, and kernel behavior

• Hands-on experience running Kubernetes in production, and a deep understanding of containers and modern cloud-native workflows

• Demonstrated experience with at least one major public cloud provider such as AWS, GCP, or Azure

• A strong bias for automation and reproducibility; comfortable working with Kubernetes, GitOps, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, and observability tools

• Confidence in diagnosing complex systems, handling incidents, and driving continuous improvements to reliability

• A genuine interest in how large-scale systems behave in the real world, and a drive to make them better every day

• Exceptional teamwork, collaboration skills, and the ability to work independently as part of a globally distributed team

• Solid written and verbal communication skills coupled with a strong motivation to

What Gives You an Edge:

• Experience working on developer productivity tooling

• Experience with EKS, GKE or AKS specific Kubernetes distributions