Senior Software Engineer, Confluent

• 5+ years building distributed systems in Java, Golang or Python and running in k8s
• 2+ years on an SRE, DevOps, observability, or similar platform engineering team delivering capabilities to multiple product engineering teams
• Deep experience in the use of Prometheus, AlertManager, and Grafana
• Experience with operating in-house observability infrastructure and being on-call for it
• BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience

Desirable

• We’re seeking a Senior Software Engineer II with a passion for observability, and a desire to define their career by contributing to our mission critical observability platform that operates at global scale; across the big three cloud providers, a hundred regions, thousands of clusters and tens of thousands of nodes
• At this scale, every contribution you make will have an enormous impact on how we develop and operate our global data streaming platform
• This role will let you flex a wide range of skills; where UX design and mega scale system design are equally important, where improving developer velocity and compute resource efficiency can be equally satisfying
• Architect, design, build and operate end-to-end solutions for collecting, shipping, storing and querying Open-Telemetry signals from infrastructure, application containers, and k8s clusters, with a heavy focus on self-service, multitenancy, reliability and velocity
• Operate global and regional storage and query backends for metrics, traces, and logs
• Define and implement the building blocks for querying, visualizing and acting on 300M+ active time series using Grafana, Prometheus, AlertManager, and PagerDuty
• Evaluate and implement new capabilities for logging, trace analytics and application profiling
• Work directly with product engineering teams, on calls, and incident commanders to evangelize and deliver enhancements to our observability platform

• Deadline to Apply: November 19, 2025 at 9:00 PM UTC