Senior Software Engineer, Confluent

• 6+ years of experience in software engineering, SRE, or security engineering roles, with significant experience operating security platform services
• Strong backend software development experience (Go, Java, Rust, Python)
• Expertise with distributed systems, cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure), Kubernetes, service mesh, and container orchestration
• Strong understanding of security domains: IAM, OAuth2, OIDC, PKI, secrets management, policy engines, audit pipelines, zero trust architecture
• Experience building highly reliable, observable, and resilient production systems
• Operational expertise: SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, on-call leadership, incident management
• Strong collaboration skills to drive alignment across engineering, security, and compliance stakeholders
• Excellent communication skills with ability to influence technical and business leaders
• BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience

Desirable

• We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer II to architect, build, and operate services that are core to the company’s cloud infrastructure and product platforms. This is a hybrid engineering role, blending deep software development expertise with hands-on operational excellence
• You will design highly scalable platform services (authentication, authorization, identity, secrets management, policy enforcement, security telemetry pipelines, etc.), while also ensuring these systems are reliable, observable, and resilient in production.
• You’ll work across engineering, security, compliance, and platform orgs to deliver secure-by-default building blocks that empower product teams to integrate security seamlessly
• Architect, design, and develop platform services with a strong focus on scalability, security, and developer experience
• Lead operational design for reliability: build comprehensive observability, monitoring, and incident response automation into security-critical services
• Build automation and tooling to drive self-healing systems, proactive risk detection, failure recovery, and continuous resilience testing
• Collaborate with compliance, governance, and risk teams to translate regulatory and policy requirements into scalable technical controls
• Lead technical design reviews, security architecture reviews, and incident postmortems for platform-level incidents
• Mentor engineers across multiple disciplines on both security and operational best practices
• Own end-to-end delivery of services: from initial design and development through deployment, production hardening, and lifecycle maintenance