About the Role:

To realise Confluent’s enormous potential, we are looking for software engineers to grow our internal Continuous Delivery tooling team, which is responsible for building the process automation capabilities of Confluent Cloud service delivery. Continuous Delivery is a strategic investment area for Confluent with impact to all of the R&D engineers' productivity, along with our high levels of compliance and acceleration of our operational maturity.

We are looking for someone with an interest in building mission-critical tooling systems, with a focus on internal customer needs. The ideal candidate would be passionate about engineering productivity, reliability and quality.

What You Will Do:

• Build the (Golang) software tools used by Confluent Cloud teams to deliver their software solutions safely, securely and in a timely manner

• Independently drive the execution of software projects to deliver complex projects in a production environment with a focus on quality

• Be inspired by industry standard patterns within the problem domain and apply them with creativity for best-in-class solutions

• Have a customer-focused mindset to deliver solutions for a wide range of diverse use cases

What You Will Bring:

• BS, MS in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience

• 5+ years of relevant cloud infrastructure/cloud networking experience

• Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development

• Experience building and operating large-scale systems

• Solid understanding at a systems level (disk, network, operating systems, etc)

• A self-starter with the ability to work effectively in teams

• Proficiency in Go, Python, C++, or other statically typed languages

• Experience/knowledge with public clouds (AWS, Azure or GCP)

• Experience/knowledge with container orchestration technology (Kubernetes)

What Gives You an Edge:

• Experience working on developer productivity tooling

• Experience with EKS, GKE or AKS specific Kubernetes distributions