Staff Software Developer, Confluent
Data streaming platform
Open for applications
Data streaming platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
1001+ employees
Company mission
Founded by the team that built Apache Kafka, their mission is to make managing Kafka easy.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of relevant software development experience
- Technical Expertise: Extensive experience in software engineering, including 5+ years of hands-on experience in designing and developing complex, large-scale distributed systems. Expertise in Java and JVM technology. Expertise in the internals of the Apache Flink Runtime. Expertise in cloud-native technology, including networking & security and a deep understanding of cloud best practices. Expertise in debugging, benchmarking, and profiling distributed systems, including root cause analysis, troubleshooting, and problem resolution
- Architecture Design: Proven ability to design and implement features in the area of Flink Runtime, e.g. in state management, checkpointing, recovery, rescaling, network stack, or operator implementations
- Leadership: Track record of technical leadership, mentoring engineers, and driving impactful technical decisions
- Problem Solving: Strong problem-solving skills, capable of translating complex requirements into effective solutions
- Communication: Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to collaborate across teams. Ability to influence the team, peers, and management using effective communication and collaborative techniques
- Industry Engagement: Active involvement in the Flink (and related) communities, conferences, and a strong network within the industry
- Experience running production services in the cloud and being part of on-call rotation
- BS Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience. An advanced degree in computer science is preferred
What the job involves
- As a Staff Engineer you will be responsible to drive the end-to-end execution of open-ended engineering projects in service of our product and business goals
- We are looking for Flink experts who are eager to dive deep into the inner workings of Confluent Cloud and Flink’s runtime in order to build a fully integrated stream processor in Confluent Cloud
- In this role, you will work closely with key stakeholders across teams to identify and deliver strategically important projects for Flink at Confluent
- As part of a team that works on Flink’s core engine, you will need to navigate fluently between high-level design and low-level performance work
- Develop a cloud-native unified batch and stream processing engine based on Apache Flink in Confluent Cloud, as a multi-tenant, highly available, and scalable service
- As a technical leader, you will drive the architecture, design, and implementation of core parts of our “Flink on Confluent Cloud” offering. You will translate complex requirements into pragmatic and scalable technical solutions with elegant implementations
- Partner across engineering and other key stakeholders to create and execute the overall roadmap for delivering a top-notch product for our customers
- You will contribute to relevant proposals, changes and features to open source Apache Flink and help the community to maintain a high quality project for example by contributing improvement proposals, participating in relevant mailing list discussions, and reviewing PRs affecting Flink Runtime
- Be a thought leader in the Flink community in the area of Flink runtime, charting the path for how the future of Flink’s core engine should look like
- Evaluate and enhance the efficiency of our platform's technology stack, keeping pace with industry trends and adopting state-of-the-art solutions
- Solve complicated technical projects with high quality and provide technical guidance to the team in specialized areas
- Improve the efficiency, performance and security of the Flink’s runtime
- As a vital member of our team, you take responsibility for developing, managing, and maintaining a mission-critical service
- Enhance the stability, performance, scalability, and operational excellence across multiple critical systems
- Troubleshoot and debug technical issues inside a deep and complex technical stack that includes microservices, containers, and the JVM
- Ensure operational readiness of the services and meet the availability and performance SLA commitments to our customers
- Thinks of improvements to processes and operations
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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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
27% female employees
14% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Apr 2020
$250m
SERIES E
Jan 2019
$125m
SERIES D
Total funding: $455.9m
Company benefits
- Unlimited Holiday
- Delicious Food on us (twice a week)
- Life Insurance & Income Protection Insurance
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
Articles
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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