Confluent, founded in 2014, is a leading software company that specializes in event streaming platforms. The company's innovative technology has revolutionized real-time data processing and analytics, enabling organizations to harness the power of data in motion. Confluent's event streaming platform has become a cornerstone for modern data architecture, empowering businesses to build scalable, reliable, and real-time data pipelines. With a comprehensive suite of tools and services, Confluent is at the forefront of the data streaming revolution, helping companies across industries unlock the full potential of their data.

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We’re not just building better tech. We’re rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real-time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them.It takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together.One Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.<h2>About the Role:</h2>Applications Engineering powers the organization’s central nervous system, enabling scalable, data-driven platforms that transform business insights into impactful actions. We are seeking an accomplished Senior Software Engineer with deep backend engineering expertise to design, build, and operate enterprise-grade distributed systems.This role is ideal for engineers who bring strong problem-solving skills, system design experience, and the ability to collaborate effectively across backend, UI, product, and platform teams. Exposure to modern UI technologies is a plus for delivering end-to-end solutions.<h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Design and implement scalable, high-performance backend services using Golang</li><li>Architect and develop microservices and APIs that support mission-critical applications</li><li>Collaborate with Product Managers, UI engineers, and other backend engineers to deliver reliable, end-to-end features</li><li>Design and deliver applications using Golang, PostgreSQL, Kafka, and related technologies</li><li>Ensure application security, reliability, observability, and compliance with best practices</li><li>Optimize services for performance, scalability, and fault tolerance</li><li>Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and architectural decisions</li><li>Mentor junior engineers and contribute to a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related technical field</li><li>Minimum 7 years of professional software development experience, with strong hands-on expertise in Golang</li><li>Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and system design, with excellent problem-solving skills</li><li>Proven experience in designing, developing, and consuming RESTful APIs (gRPC is a plus)</li><li>Solid working knowledge of SQL databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL; exposure to NoSQL databases is a plus</li><li>Experience working with Kafka or other messaging/event-streaming platforms</li><li>Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure)</li><li>Proficiency with Docker, Kubernetes, and modern CI/CD practices</li><li>Experience working in Agile/Scrum development environments</li></ul><h2>What Gives You an Edge:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Experience with modern UI frameworks such as React, Angular</li><li>Working knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript</li><li>Experience with backend technologies such as Java and Python</li><li>Understanding of front-end integration, performance, and responsive design principles</li></ul><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.We’re proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Employment decisions are based on 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 law.

Senior Software Engineer

We’re not just building better tech. We’re rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real-time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them.It takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together.One Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.About the Role: Backend engineers at Confluent work on a set of diverse and complex challenges such as building foundational cloud frameworks and services that power all components of the platform in the Cloud. We are building a new multi-tenant, multi-cloud, polyglot, cloud native compute substrate to enable new business opportunities across Confluent Cloud (including Connect, Apache Flink, Kafka and more) . As a Staff Engineer, you think strategically and you help drive end-to-end technical delivery from customer experience to scaling internal operations. You are not confined to the status quo and you leverage your expertise in Cloud-native, large-scale distributed systems to help take our platform to the next level. You worry about key operational aspects (availability, reliability, performance, monitoring, emergency response, capacity planning, disaster recovery) of our new Compute Platform, and you make sure that we have a highly-available, resilient and secure offering that our largest customers can rely on.What You Will Do:<ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Build mission-critical backend services that deliver value to our customers. You will play a crucial role in architecting, designing, developing and operationalizing high performance, scalable, reliable and resilient services</li><li>Design, develop, and maintain Kafka Connect connectors for integrating with databases and data warehouses (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, Snowflake).</li><li>Troubleshoot and debug technical issues inside a deep and complex technical stack that includes microservices, containers, and virtualization</li><li>Ensure operational readiness of the services and meet the availability and performance SLA commitments to our customers</li><li>A strategic engineer who constantly thinks of process and operational improvements</li></ul>What You Will Bring:<ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>12+ years industry experience designing, building, scaling and supporting backend systems in production with a solid grasp on good software engineering practices such as code reviews, deep focus on quality, and documentation.</li><li>Strong programming and algorithmic skills. Proficiency in a major programming language, e.g. Java, Go, C / C++, Python, etc.</li><li>Experience configuring and deploying distributed systems and microservices using modern tools, e.g. Kubernetes, Helm, etc.</li><li>Strong focus on project delivery and communication skills.</li><li>Experience in driving operational excellence for large, production services.</li><li>A strong sense of customer centricity, teamwork, technical leadership and mentorship and are excited about team and company success.</li><li>BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience.</li></ul>What Gives You an Edge:<ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Proven track record of delivering large-scale, highly available, low latency, high quality systems.</li><li>Hands-on technical expertise in large scale systems engineering or distributed systems.</li></ul><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.We’re proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Employment decisions are based on 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 law.

Staff Software Engineer

We’re not just building better tech. We’re rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real-time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them.It takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together.One Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.<h2> About the Role:</h2>The Flink Platform team is at the forefront of building a robust control plane for the Flink product, leveraging advanced database storage to ensure high reliability and efficiency. With a vision centered on innovation and excellence, this team is critical to advancing Confluent's Data in Motion initiative and is committed to supplying the industry with solutions that cater to evolving stream processing demands. <h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Developing the control plane services that orchestrate Flink job lifecycles (submission, scaling, recovery). Building Kubernetes operators and orchestrators for serverless resource management. Designing APIs for job management, multi-tenancy, and isolation.</li><li>Following a holistic development approach you will be responsible for the code quality, test coverage, documentation and maintainability of the components you and your team work on.</li><li>Designing Components: You will not only implement aspects of Flink Control Plane but also draft designs, discuss them and curate and moderate a decision with involved stakeholders.</li><li>Team: As part of the team you will help to follow and maintain processes, by being an active part of the team, leading meetings and taking initiatives where feasible and participating in on-call rotations.</li><li>Mentoring: You will mentor other engineers with less experience in Control plane architecture to get started in the community and more junior developers to get into the area of serverless Apache Flink.</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>10+ years of relevant software development experience.</li><li>Technical Expertise: Deep knowledge of distributed systems orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes, control loops). Experience building high-scale control planes, API servers, or cloud-native infrastructure. Knowledge of containerization, networking, and resource isolation.</li><li>Problem Solving: Strong problem-solving skills, capable of translating complex requirements into effective solutions.</li><li>Communication: Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to collaborate across teams.</li></ul><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.We’re proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Employment decisions are based on 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 law.

Staff Software Engineer - Flink Control Plane

We’re not just building better tech. We’re rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real-time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them.It takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together.One Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.About the Role:The 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.<ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>CP generates 45% of the Confluent revenue for the company as of 2025. 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.</li><li>Enable customers can take advantage of Confluent Cloud innovations alongside their private cloud by providing connected cloud features.</li><li>Gather Tech Community’s mind-share with Confluent Platform.</li><li>Enhance Kafka and Confluent Developer Experience.</li></ul>What You Will Do:<ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>You will work with a team of engineers and architects to help evolve the Confluent Platform</li><li>The charter of the CP team has been continuously expanding since its inception. You will technically drive the advancements in ever expanding CP Charter.</li><li>We want to ensure the quality of deliverables holds the bar - you will design and build tech for this.</li><li>Crafting code for provisioning, rolling upgrades, scaling clusters, multi-region deployments, disaster recovery, and secure configuration management.</li><li>Collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive the development of innovative solutions that meet the evolving needs of our customers.</li><li>Championing open-source community building initiatives, leveraging your passion for fostering collaboration and knowledge-sharing.</li><li>CP on-call - how do we embedded tech to ensure debuggability and support across components are improved. How do we make it self-serve issue fixes for customers and L1 support.</li><li>Mentor a junior team of high-performing engineers, helping them to continue in growing their skill set through hands-on experience and mentorship.</li><li>We want to bring the latest K8S ecosystem to our CFK - how do we leverage the progress here to benefit our customers.</li></ul>What You Will Bring:<ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>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.</li><li>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.</li><li>Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development. Solid fundamentals in concurrent and multi-threading programming.</li><li>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.</li><li>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.</li><li>Ability to influence the team, peers and upper management in technology decisions using effective communication and collaborative techniques</li><li>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.</li><li>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.</li></ul>What Gives You an Edge:<ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Experience in Open-source technologies</li><li>Experience in K8S, Ansible</li><li>Hands on experience in Hybrid Cloud environment</li><li>Hands on experience in Kafka</li></ul><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.We’re proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Employment decisions are based on 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 law.

Senior Software Engineer II

We’re not just building better tech. We’re rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real-time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them.It takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together.One Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.<h2>About the Role:</h2>We are a team of passionate engineers who love solving complex distributed systems and infrastructure problems. We are building Kora from the ground up to be a true managed service for clients who demand high levels of availability and performance at the lowest cost of ownership. In this role, you will be working on building highly available, reliable, secure, scalable, and multi-tenant Kora's compute layer. You will be instrumental in driving the technical solutions end-to-end, working closely with the team and key stakeholders to design, architect, and develop top-notch solutions. Here are examples of some of the challenges we've taken on in recent years:<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol16/p3822-povzner.pdf">Kora: A Cloud-Native Event Streaming Platform For Kafka</a><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.confluent.io/events/current/2023/apache-kafkas-next-gen-rebalance-protocol-towards-more-stable-and-scalable/">Apache Kafka's Next-Gen Rebalance Protocol: Towards More Stable and Scalable Consumer Groups</a><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.confluent.io/blog/cloud-native-multi-tenant-kafka-with-confluent-cloud/">From On-Prem to Cloud-Native: Multi-Tenancy in Confluent Cloud</a><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.confluent.io/blog/from-apache-kafka-to-confluent-cloud-optimizing-for-speed-scale-storage/">Speed, Scale, Storage: Our Journey from Apache Kafka to Performance in Confluent Cloud</a><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://assets.confluent.io/m/2d7c883a8aa6a71d/original/20200501-WP-Benchmark_Your_Dedicated_Apache_Kafka_Cluster_on_Confluent_Cloud.pdf">Benchmarking Confluent Cloud</a><h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Driven and excited about challenges of delivering complex projects in production with a focus on quality</li><li>Customer focused - making customers more successful by taking on their most challenging problems motivates you</li><li>Have a strong sense of teamwork and able to make decisions which benefit the team and company</li><li>Identify root causes, and get beyond treating symptoms - motivated to dig deep and solve hard problems</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience</li><li>4+ years of relevant cloud infrastructure/cloud networking experience</li><li>Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development</li><li>Experience building and operating large-scale systems in the Cloud</li><li>Solid understanding of basic systems operations (disk, network, operating systems, etc)</li><li>A self starter with the ability to work effectively in teams</li><li>Proficiency in Java, Scala, C/C++, Go or other statically typed languages</li></ul><h2>What Gives You an Edge:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>In-depth familiarity with the JVM</li><li>A strong background in distributed storage systems or databases</li><li>Experience in the areas of resource management and QoS</li><li>Experience/knowledge with public clouds (AWS, Azure or GCP)</li><li>Interest in evangelism (giving talks at tech conferences, writing blog posts evangelizing Kafka)</li><li>Experience working on databases or data storage</li></ul><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.We’re proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Employment decisions are based on 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 law.

Senior Software Engineer II - Kora Compute

We’re not just building better tech. We’re rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real-time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them.It takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together.One Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.<h2>About the Role:</h2>Backend engineers at Confluent work on a set of diverse and complex challenges such as building foundational cloud frameworks and services that power all components of the platform in the Cloud. We are building a new multi-tenant, multi-cloud, polyglot, cloud native compute substrate to enable new business opportunities across Confluent Cloud (including Connect, Apache Flink, Kafka and more) . As a senior software engineer, you think strategically and you help drive end-to-end technical delivery from customer experience to scaling internal operations. You are not confined to the status quo and you leverage your expertise in Cloud-native, large-scale distributed systems to help take our platform to the next level. You worry about key operational aspects (availability, reliability, performance, monitoring, emergency response, capacity planning, disaster recovery) of our new Compute Platform, and you make sure that we have a highly-available, resilient and secure offering that our largest customers can rely on.<h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Build mission-critical backend services that deliver value to our customers. You will play a crucial role in architecting, designing, developing and operationalizing high performance, scalable, reliable and resilient services</li><li>Design, develop, and maintain Kafka Connect connectors for integrating with databases and data warehouses (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, Snowflake).</li><li>Work with open source technologies like Debezium and Kafka Connect to implement Change Data Capture (CDC) connectors.</li><li>Troubleshoot and debug technical issues inside a deep and complex technical stack that includes microservices, containers, and virtualization</li><li>Ensure operational readiness of the services and meet the availability and performance SLA commitments to our customers</li><li>A strategic engineer who constantly thinks of process and operational improvements</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>8+ years industry experience designing, building, scaling and supporting backend systems in production with a solid grasp on good software engineering practices such as code reviews, deep focus on quality, and documentation.</li><li>Strong programming and algorithmic skills. Proficiency in a major programming language, e.g. Java, Go, C / C++, Python, etc.</li><li>Experience configuring and deploying distributed systems and microservices using modern tools, e.g. Kubernetes, Helm, etc.</li><li>Strong focus on project delivery and communication skills.</li><li>Experience in driving operational excellence for large, production services.</li><li>A strong sense of customer centricity, teamwork, technical leadership and mentorship and are excited about team and company success.</li><li>BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience.</li></ul><h2>What Gives You an Edge:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Proven track record of delivering large-scale, highly available, low latency, high quality systems.</li><li>Hands-on technical expertise in large scale systems engineering or distributed systems.</li></ul><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.We’re proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Employment decisions are based on 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 law.

Senior Software Engineer - II

We’re not just building better tech. We’re rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real-time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them.It takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together.One Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.<h2>About the Role:</h2>We are a team of passionate engineers who love solving complex distributed storage systems and infrastructure problems. Through the <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.confluent.io/product/tableflow/">Tableflow</a> project, we are building the next generation of storage solutions for Kora, transforming it into a true multi-modal storage engine. Our goal is to enable streaming data to be consumed both as a table and as a stream seamlessly. If you're interested in learning more about the challenges we are tackling, check out our blog post: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://jack-vanlightly.com/blog/2024/3/19/tableflow-the-stream-table-kafka-iceberg-duality">Tableflow: The Stream/Table, Kafka/Iceberg Duality</a>.As a Senior Software Engineer on the team, you will focus on advancing key layers of the Tableflow project, including its multi-tenant, highly available compute infrastructure, and the core components responsible for table materialization and background maintenance. You will tackle challenges such as developing strategies for efficient table materialization and maintenance at massive scale across all of Confluent Cloud, ensuring high availability and scalability for background storage tasks.<h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Storage Engine Development: Design and implement innovative strategies for table schematization, materialization, and compaction at massive scale.</li><li>Platform Engineering: Build and maintain multi-tenant, highly available infrastructure that powers background computational tasks for Kora’s long-term storage. Ensure that the platform is optimized for scalability, reliability, and resilience, in alignment with organizational objectives.</li><li>Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate with product management, design, and other engineering teams to ensure seamless integration of storage features and infrastructure with the broader organization.</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience</li><li>Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence and guide stakeholders at all levels.</li></ul><h2>What Gives You an Edge:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Familiarity with or has experience contributing to the following open-source technologies: Apache Kafka, Apache Iceberg, Apache Flink</li><li>Experience/knowledge with public clouds (AWS, Azure or GCP)</li></ul><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.We’re proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Employment decisions are based on 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 law.

We’re not just building better tech. We’re rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real-time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them.It takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together.One Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.<h2>About the Role:</h2>As a Software Engineer on the Compute Platform team, you will be a key technical leader in building and evolving our next-generation, multi-tenant, cloud-native compute substrate that powers all of Confluent Cloud's diverse workloads.Our platform orchestrates workloads across thousands of Kubernetes clusters globally across all cloud service providers, providing a unified abstraction layer for scheduling, lifecycle management, and operational excellence. You'll work on critical systems including:<ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Multi-Cluster Workload Orchestration: Build the control plane that manages workload placement, lifecycle, and state across multiple Kubernetes clusters per region</li></ul><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Platform APIs &amp; Abstractions: Design and evolve APIs that provide clean abstractions for polyglot workload management across diverse compute needs</li></ul><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Cloud Platform Integration: Build and optimize deep integrations with the broader Confluent Cloud platform for seamless end-to-end operations</li></ul><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Multi-Tenancy &amp; Security: Implement and enhance workload isolation, network policies, and secure execution environments</li></ul><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Observability &amp; Operations: Drive operational excellence through monitoring integration, automated health checks, and self-healing capabilities</li></ul>As a senior technical leader, you think strategically and help drive end-to-end technical delivery from customer experience to scaling internal operations. You leverage your expertise in cloud-native distributed systems to take our platform to the next level while ensuring high availability, reliability, and security for our largest enterprise customers.<h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Drive the overall technical charter for the Compute Platform, including multi-cluster orchestration, workload placement, and security architecture</li></ul><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Design and implement platform APIs and Kubernetes operators using Go to support evolving workload requirements</li></ul><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Work closely with product management and engineering leadership to build and drive the roadmap for Confluent's Compute Platform, enabling new business opportunities across Confluent.</li><li>Deliver high-impact initiatives in areas such as workload scheduling, disruption management, network isolation, rolling update strategies, and cross-cluster resource management</li></ul><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Lead technical design reviews and drive architectural decisions across organizational boundaries</li></ul><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Mentor and grow other engineers on the team through code reviews, pairing, and technical guidance</li></ul><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Own operational aspects including availability, reliability, performance monitoring, emergency response, and disaster recovery for our global compute infrastructure</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>8+ years of experience delivering scalable software solutions</li></ul><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Proven track record of leading the delivery of large-scale, highly available, low-latency systems</li></ul><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Deep expertise in Kubernetes including controller development, operator patterns, and multi-cluster architectures</li></ul><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Strong proficiency in Go with experience building production-grade distributed systems</li></ul><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Experience with multi-tenant platform architectures and security isolation patterns</li></ul><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Familiarity with gRPC, Protobuf, and API design for internal platform services</li></ul><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Experience with observability tools and operational excellence practices</li></ul><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Experience with multi-cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure) and cloud-provider integrations</li></ul><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Track record of providing technical leadership and mentorship</li></ul><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Track record of working collaboratively across teams including product management, SRE, and other engineering teams</li></ul><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>A smart, humble, and empathetic attitude with a strong sense of teamwork</li></ul><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Drive and excitement about the challenges of a fast-paced, innovative software environment</li></ul><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.We’re proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Employment decisions are based on 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 law.

Senior Software Engineer II - Cloud Compute Platform

We’re not just building better tech. We’re rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real-time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them.It takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together.One Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.<h2>About the Role:</h2>The charter of the CP team has been continuously expanding since its inception. You will play a key technical role, driving advancements in the ever-expanding CP charter. We are committed to maintaining high-quality deliverables, and you will be responsible for designing and building the necessary technology to uphold this standard. To enhance the efficiency of our release engineering processes, we look to you for innovative ideas. We also aim to integrate the latest K8S ecosystem into our CFK, leveraging this progress to benefit our customers.Additionally, we are focused on improving the management and monitoring of large CP clusters in multi-geography deployments, as well as enhancing our security measures to ensure customers are prepared for the evolving global regulatory landscape. This role requires you to navigate open-ended strategies, exploring and experimenting with new ideas that deliver value to customers—rather than simply following a predefined list of requirements. You will also contribute to better supporting our on-call engineers and resolving customer issues within promised SLAs.As one of the leading technologists within the CP organization, you will architect and design solutions, as well as review design implementations and code. This position offers the opportunity to work across the full breadth and depth of CP technology. It also demands operational excellence and active participation in developing the roadmap, evolving the team's vision and direction, and collaborating with the organization to turn goals into reality.<h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>You will work with a team of engineers to help evolve the Confluent Platform. Work closely with product management, engineering leadership, and other key stakeholders across various teams in Confluent and Confluent Cloud to build and drive the overall roadmap.</li><li>Need you to be a strong tech voice outside CP in Confluent.</li><li>Influence the overall domain health and operational hygiene for the Confluent Platform. We need a tech champion for CP. Review code, designs and improvements are expected from you.</li><li>We are looking at you to lead the technology charter in Confluent Platform.\</li><li>Mentor a team of high-performing engineers and leads, helping them to continue in growing their skill set through hands-on experience and mentorship.</li><li>Be a strong technical leader and representative for engineering teams in India.</li><li>Provide timely and productive feedback, encourage a growth mindset, and advise team members in setting and working toward personal development goals.</li><li>Nurture a culture of excellence on the team through a focus on hiring, communication, execution, and work quality.</li><li>Create and manage processes that enable the team to do its best work.</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Minimum of 10+ years of hands-on software development experience with the ability to anticipate future technical needs for the product and craft plans to realize them.</li><li>Taking ideas to production is something we look for. </li><li>Ready to roll up your sleeves - code, debug, design - do whatever it takes to ship the product to production.</li><li>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.</li><li>Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development. Solid fundamentals in concurrent and multi-threading programming.</li><li>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.</li><li>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.</li><li>Ability to influence the team, peers and upper management in technology decisions using effective communication and collaborative techniques</li><li>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.</li><li>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.</li></ul><h2>What Gives You an Edge:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Experience in open-source development </li><li>Experience using Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, Apache Spark is a big plus </li><li>Interest in evangelism (giving talks at tech conferences, writing blog posts evangelizing Kafka) </li><li>Experience working on stream processing technology or query processing systems </li><li>Data processing systems in general </li></ul><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.We’re proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Employment decisions are based on 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 law.

Staff Software Engineer I - Confluent Platform

We’re not just building better tech. We’re rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real-time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them.It takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together.One Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.<h2>About the Role:</h2>Backend engineers at Confluent work on a set of diverse and complex challenges such as building foundational cloud frameworks and services that power all components of the platform in the Cloud. We are building a new multi-tenant, multi-cloud, polyglot, cloud native compute substrate to enable new business opportunities across Confluent Cloud (including Connect, Apache Flink, Kafka and more) . As a senior software engineer, you think strategically and you help drive end-to-end technical delivery from customer experience to scaling internal operations. You are not confined to the status quo and you leverage your expertise in Cloud-native, large-scale distributed systems to help take our platform to the next level. You worry about key operational aspects (availability, reliability, performance, monitoring, emergency response, capacity planning, disaster recovery) of our new Compute Platform, and you make sure that we have a highly-available, resilient and secure offering that our largest customers can rely on.<h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Build mission-critical backend services that deliver value to our customers. You will play a crucial role in architecting, designing, developing and operationalizing high performance, scalable, reliable and resilient services</li><li>Troubleshoot and debug technical issues inside a deep and complex technical stack that includes microservices, containers, and virtualization</li><li>Ensure operational readiness of the services and meet the availability and performance SLA commitments to our customers</li><li>A strategic engineer who constantly thinks of process and operational improvements</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>3+ years industry experience designing, building, scaling and supporting backend systems in production with a solid grasp on good software engineering practices such as code reviews, deep focus on quality, and documentation.</li><li>Strong programming and algorithmic skills. Proficiency in a major programming language, e.g. Java, Go, C / C++, Python, etc.</li><li>Experience configuring and deploying distributed systems and microservices using modern tools, e.g. Kubernetes, Helm, etc.</li><li>Strong focus on project delivery and communication skills.</li><li>Experience in driving operational excellence for large, production services.</li><li>A strong sense of customer centricity, teamwork, technical leadership and mentorship and are excited about team and company success.</li><li>BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience.</li></ul><h2>What Gives You an Edge:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Proven track record of delivering large-scale, highly available, low latency, high quality systems.</li><li>Hands-on technical expertise in large scale systems engineering or distributed systems.</li></ul><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.We’re proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Employment decisions are based on 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 law.

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