Staff Software Engineer, Confluent

• 2+ years industry experience designing, building, scaling and supporting backend systems in production with a solid grasp on good software engineering practices such as code reviews, deep focus on quality, and documentation
• Strong programming and algorithmic skills. Proficiency in a major programming language, e.g. Java, Go, C / C++, Python, etc
• Deep curiosity and enthusiasm for distributed systems and storage systems
• Strong focus on project delivery and communication skills
• Experience in driving operational excellence for large production services
• A strong sense of customer centricity, teamwork, technical leadership and mentorship and are excited about team and company success

Desirable

• WarpStream is an Apache Kafka compatible data streaming platform built directly on top of object storage with zero local disks
• It’s delivered to customers as a BYOC-style offering
• The WarpStream team is responsible for this product offering from top to bottom, and as a Senior Engineer you’ll do everything from working on the storage engine running in the Agents, improving the scalability of our multi-tenant control plane, implementing new features like transactions, active-active multi-regions clusters, and even write some HTML/Javascript for our developer console
• We’re a small team of < 10 engineers, so you’ll be expected to work across the entire stack from bashing bits at the network level to making sure our UI provides a great developer experience
• You will have an opportunity to solve complex distributed systems problems at scale
• You will build services that can operate across different cloud service providers like AWS, GCP, and Azure
• You’ll be on-call for all of it
• Independently drive execution of complex technical projects end to end
• Build mission-critical backend services that deliver value to our customers. You will play a crucial role in architecting, designing, developing and operationalizing high performance, scalable, reliable and resilient services
• Troubleshoot and debug technical issues inside a deep and complex technical stack that includes microservices, containers, and virtualization
• Ensure operational readiness of the services and meet the availability and performance SLA commitments to our customers