Technical Support Engineer, Confluent
Infrastructure & Cloud
$106.2-124.7k
Plus equity
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Data streaming platform
Job no longer available
Data streaming platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$106.2-124.7k
Plus equity
More information about location
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
- 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
- Prior experience as a Technical Support Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), or DevOps specialist, with a focus on platform and cloud infrastructure
- Knowledge of and troubleshooting experience with cloud networking on at least one cloud provider. For example, with AWS: you should be familiar with VPC, PrivateLink, Security Groups, NACLs, and Route 53
- Hands-on experience with Ansible, Terraform or any other Infrastructure as Code(IaC) tools
- Or you have experience with Kubernetes management or application deployment on K8s
- Knowledge of SSL/TLS and hands on troubleshooting experience
- Knowledge of various authentication techniques (basic, token, OAuth, SSO)
- Knowledge of Authorization concepts (ACLs and RBAC)
- Proven experience troubleshooting applications in Linux/Unix environments and familiarity with command-line tools
- A strong understanding of the Kafka protocol or a willingness to become an expert in Apache Kafka
- Experience diagnosing, reproducing, and resolving customer issues
- Desire to make customers successful through direct interaction
- Looking for candidates sitting in EST or CST time zones to support clients
What the job involves
- As a Technical Support Engineer, you'll be the crucial link between our client services and engineering teams, driving customer success by helping to identify and resolve critical business issues
- You'll work directly with customers, providing expertise in software development and operations, and leveraging deep knowledge of best practices for using Apache Kafka and complementary services in both Confluent Platform and Confluent Cloud
- Working with customers to resolve a wide range of issues with their Confluent deployments
- Contributing to process development - we are a small team, so we are 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 and runbooks
- Continuously enhance personal and team knowledge of Apache Kafka and associated products
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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