Senior Application Security Engineer, Confluent
$192.2-225.8k
+ Equity
Data streaming platform
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Data streaming platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$192.2-225.8k
+ Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
Founded by the team that built Apache Kafka, their mission is to make managing Kafka easy.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate has deep technical security knowledge and software development expertise that will help define and implement robust security architecture strategies, manage and eradicate systemic classes of security issues and vulnerabilities at scale
- A data-driven, decision-making mindset
- 4+ years of relevant application security industry experience
- Strong knowledge of security fundamentals, especially as they relate to the fields of Web Application Security and Cloud Security primitives
- Experience working with common software development stacks and CI/CD systems
- Experience reading and writing code for software automation and security test cases (preferably in GoLang, Python, Java)
- Experience working with distributed teams and other cross-functional stakeholders
- The knowledge, experience, and perspective necessary to own outcomes, influence stakeholders, and provide effective leadership when it comes to keeping our customers and our product safe
- Decision-maker with the ability to operate with freedom and autonomy
- Ability to own and oversee numerous initiatives, while working collaboratively with a variety of stakeholders, and adjust priorities upon evolving business needs
What the job involves
- As an application security engineer at Confluent, you will join a team of security architects and engineers responsible for defining and executing on the security strategy of our product for both on-prem offerings and Cloud services
- You will ensure that security is embedded in how we build our products from design and development to testing to how we run them in the cloud, and partner with product and engineering teams to strategically guard against existing or emerging threats
- This position is also responsible for cultivating a culture of security awareness across Eng, Product, and the rest of the organization. You will also be responsible for helping build software automation that supports various security operations.
- Drive and influence software security across the organization by partnering with key stakeholders throughout Confluent
- Keep up to date with emerging security vulnerability classes, research and perform triage for relevance by performing table top exercises where necessary
- Perform security threat modeling and design reviews for providing early secure design guidance to engineers and product managers
- Perform product security feature specific implementation reviews (or penetration testing whole applications where applicable), API security testing and code reviews to identify vulnerabilities and provide critical security guidance to engineers
- Enhance our security automation, leveraging or building software security tooling to help scale product security operations and support overall vulnerability management practices
- Propose, design, build, and deploy security solutions, frameworks, automation, and orchestration to secure cloud applications
- Identify opportunities for implementing additional technology controls to build more visibility or defend key points of attack
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 HQ
Mountain View, California
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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