Technical Support Engineer, Confluent
Data Streaming and Governance
$110.6-130k
Offers Equity
Data streaming platform
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Data streaming platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$110.6-130k
Offers Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help every organization harness data in motion so they can compete and thrive in the modern world.
Role
Who you are
- Regularly provide technical support within your current role
- Excitement in learning about streaming data and becoming a domain expert in the Confluent Data Stream Platform
- Strong SQL skills
- Proficiency in Java and C / C++
- Experience with client server technologies or distributed systems
- Apache Flink production experience is a plus
- Experience with Golang, Python, JavaScript, C#, Scala is a plus
- Ability to quickly understand and reason through the internal architecture of complex systems, with a primary focus on Linux and additional proficiency in macOS and Windows
- A developer-centric approach to diagnosing, reproducing, and resolving customer issues, including the ability to build and run test clients to replicate customer behavior and validate solutions
- Desire to make customers successful through direct interaction, including troubleshooting calls
- Two out of these three:
- Experience troubleshooting applications running on Linux (resource contention, network bottlenecks, etc.)
- Operational knowledge of Java applications (stack, jmap, etc.)
- Experience with at least one mainstream distributed system (e.g. Kafka, Flink, Spark, etc)
What the job involves
- We’re looking for self-motivated team members who crave a challenge and feel energized to roll up their sleeves and help realize Confluent’s enormous potential
- Chart your own path and take healthy risks as we solve big problems together
- We value having diverse teams and want you to grow as we grow - whether you’re just starting out in your career or managing a large team, you’ll be amazed at the magnitude of your impact
- Working with customers to resolve a wide range of issues with their Confluent deployments
- Contributing to process development - we’re a small team, so we’re looking for people who want to help us lay the foundation for growing efficiently and with a best-in-class culture
- Communicating with our core engineering team to provide real-time product feedback from the field
- Improving product documentation and authoring knowledge base articles
- Creating and reviewing product demos and internal tooling
- Working closely with the team behind Apache Kafka!
- Diving deep into Apache Flink to support its growth and adoption within the ecosystem
Our take
Confluent is a commercial company built on top of the open-source Apache Kafka project. Confluent and Kafka have developed a streaming data technology that processes massive amounts of information in real-time. The streaming database technology was developed at LinkedIn as a way of moving massive amounts of messages. The company decided to open-source that tech in 2011, and Confluent launched as the commercial arm in 2014.
While the base open-source component remains available for free download, it doesn’t include the additional tooling the company has built to make it easier for enterprises to use Kafka. Confluent's value add is in those additional tools, including a cloud version of the product and a marketplace for sharing extensions to the platform.
Confluent expanded strategic partnerships with Microsoft and acquired Immerok, and in 2023 expanded its cloud platform. 2024 saw further product expansions with the launch of the Confluent Migration Accelerator, all exemplifying how the company is living up to its name by rocket-boosting the benefits of Apache Kafka integration for companies.
Now, it looks like IBM is eyeing the company for acquisition and Confluent looks to be a natural fit. Long positioned as the real-time backbone behind modern application, Confluent would gain global scale and an even deeper enterprise reach under iBM, while cementing its role at the center of AI-driven architectures. For COnfluent, the deal would marka shift from fast-growing independent disruptor to foundational infrastructure player powering the next wave of enterprise AI.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Apr 2020
$250m
SERIES E
Jan 2019
$125m
SERIES D
Total funding: $455.9m
Company HQ
Old Mountain View, Mountain View, CA
Leadership
Jay Kreps
(Co-Founder & CEO)Prior to co-founding Confluent in 2014, Jay spent 7 years at LinkedIn, holding various roles including Principal Engineer and Principal Staff Engineer.
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