Senior Software Engineer, Confluent
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Data streaming platform
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Data streaming platform
1001+ employees
Posted today
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1001+ employees
Company mission
Founded by the team that built Apache Kafka, their mission is to make managing Kafka easy.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of relevant engineering work experience, with a strong delivery record
- Expertise in Cloud Native technologies with experience operating large production workloads in the cloud. Experience in large scale infrastructure deployments in the cloud is desirable
- Deep knowledge of Kubernetes and containerization
- Strong expertise in Infrastructure-as-Code technologies like Terraform, Cloudformation, AWS CDK, Pulumi
- Must have Terraform for deploying infrastructure, and have delivered production code in high level programming like Java/Scala/Python/Go
- Strong fundamentals of Distributed Systems and their design
- Experience with telemetry tooling to monitor production systems
- Confidence with problem-solving and troubleshooting critical services
- Exceptional teamwork, collaboration skills, and the ability to act critically with minimal supervision at times in a remote first environment
- Experience with a rotating on-call schedule to provide support
- BS Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
What the job involves
- Have you ever wanted to explore an opportunity to work on infrastructure that has a vast impact across all teams in a company? The Platform Security team is working on cutting-edge infrastructure that will be leveraged by the whole Engineering organization across Confluent by creating mechanisms to improve and evolve the overall security posture of Confluent’s internal services
- This team is at the forefront of driving this charter and is critical to unblocking multiple different product and engineering initiatives at Confluent
- Create and improve infrastructure systems and services that will provide security functionality and compliance for Confluent Cloud’s services and infrastructure
- Partner across all of Product and Engineering to gather requirements and ensure any systems built that relies on the security platform conform to their scalability and availability needs
- Collaborate broadly across teams to verify and deploy production changes to Confluent Cloud services and infrastructure
- Maintain critical monitoring and alerting systems required to ensure smooth operations of Confluent Cloud services and infrastructure
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.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Apr 2020
$250m
SERIES E
Jan 2019
$125m
SERIES D
Total funding: $455.9m
Company values
- Earn Our Customers' Love - Our customers are the lifeblood of our business and our most important stakeholder. We strive to earn their love with everything we do
- To Build a Great Company, Build a Great Team - We believe that an important part of building a great company is making sure that our employees are the best they can be.
- Smart, Humble, and Empathetic - Our employees appreciate, benefit, and learn from working with other smart, humble, and empathetic people. We strive to hire those who care deeply about others and interact with empathy towards our customers, partners, and employees.
- Be Fired up and Get It Done - As much as we benefit from working with smart, humble, and empathetic employees, we also need to “get it done” to pursue our enormous market opportunity. We are in hyper-growth mode and are scaling to fill the demands of the market and our current and future customers.
- Tasteful not Wasteful - We want to invest in areas that matter the most -- in other words, spend “tastefully,” not wastefully. We believe that thoughtful spending is essential to building a high-quality business.
- One Team - It is critical that we act as and make decisions as a unified company, doing our best to optimize globally rather than locally. This means doing our best to avoid the misalignments that some companies can be prone to. It means recognizing that when employees and teams succeed, Confluent as a whole succeeds.
Company HQ
Mountain View, California
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Leadership
Jay Kreps
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously a Principal Engineer at LinkedIn.
Neha Narkhede
(Co-Founder & Board Member)Previously a Lead Engineer at LinkedIn and Oracle. They are an Investor/advisor for Gem, Block Party, Material Security, Abacus AI, Cortex Data, Yugabyte, Metaphor Data, Natalist, Common Room, and more.
Jun Rao
(Co-Founder)Previously a Senior Engineer at LinkedIn. Has a PhD in Computer Science from Columbia University.
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