Senior Software Engineer II - Confluent Platform

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.

About the Role:

Confluent Platform Team is fully based out of India. Confluent Platform team’s mission is to provide best-in class full-scale data streaming platform in any BYOI - Bring Your Own Infra setup - from developer’s laptop to private cloud infrastructure.

Businesses need real time stream systems to react and make decisions quickly at scale. Designing systems for such use-cases will require a data-streaming platform. Confluent is the leader in data-in-motion with Confluent Platform as the streaming product. We intend to make this platform and expertise available to everyone and everywhere - be it private cloud or open source tech community.Provide “Confluent“ experience on private cloud.

• CP generates 50% of the Confluent revenue for the company as of 2023. We provide customers with a strong product roadmap, security fixes and in-time support. We help them leverage existing investments in private data centers for all data in-motion use-cases.
• Enable customers can take advantage of Confluent Cloud innovations alongside their private cloud by providing connected cloud features.
• Gather Tech Community’s mind-share with Confluent Platform.
• Enhance Kafka and Confluent Developer Experience.

What You Will Do:

• You will work with a team of engineers and architects to help evolve the Confluent Platform.
• The charter of the CP team has been continuously expanding since its inception. You will technically drive the advancements in ever expanding CP Charter.
• We want to ensure the quality of deliverables holds the bar - you will design and build tech for this.
• We want to ensure our release engineering is efficient - need your ideas to drive this.CP Monitoring and Management re-haul and design is another area to focus on for you. We need to make our monitoring product performant and scale it to handle a large fleet of clusters. Need to validate the rationale behind technical choices we have made for the same and change if necessary.
• CP on-call - how do we embedded tech to ensure debuggability and support across C3 is improved. How do we make it self-serve issue fixes for customers and L1 support.
• Mentor a junior team of high-performing engineers, helping them to continue in growing their skill set through hands-on experience and mentorship.
• We want to bring the latest K8S ecosystem to our CFK - how do we leverage the progress here to benefit our customers.
• How do we improve our management and monitoring of huge CP clusters in multi-geography deployments; how do we up our security game to ensure our customers are ready to handle the regulatory data protection changes being brought about across the globe.
• This means being able to handle open-ended strategy in this area - needs you to explore and experiment new ideas that benefit customers - not driven by a list of requirements to deliver. How do we better support our on-call engineers and resolve customer’s issue in the SLA we have promised.

What You Will Bring:

• 8+ years of hands-on software development experience with the ability to anticipate future technical needs for the product and craft plans to realize them. Taking ideas to production is something we look for.
• Experience building and operating large-scale systems. Solid understanding of basic systems operations (disk, network, operating systems, etc). Experience running production services in the cloud.
• Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development. Solid fundamentals in concurrent and multi-threading programming.
• A self starter with the ability to work effectively in teams. Proactively identifying the symptoms of technical issues and reason about their causes is needed. This will be followed by fixing the root causes.
• Timely shipping of deliverables; being able to trade-off short term technical decisions with the long term.Move fast, build in increments, and iterate. A sense of urgency, a mindset towards achieving results, and excellent prioritization skills.
• Ability to influence the team, peers and upper management in technology decisions using effective communication and collaborative techniques
• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent experience. Understanding of various technologies, programming paradigms and frameworks is needed. Ability to be pragmatic and trade off their usage in production is essential.
• Ability to take on intense customer productions issues on-call; debugging and mitigating them will be needed. This requires patient log and metrics analysis with solid reasoning to nail the issue.

What Gives You an Edge:

• Experience in Open-source technologies
• Hands on experience in Hybrid Cloud environment
• Hands on experience in Kafka / Flink

Come As You Are

At Confluent, equality is a core tenet of our culture. 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. Employment decisions are made on the basis of job-related criteria without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other classification protected by applicable law.