Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, Confluent
Internship
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
- PLEASE NOTE: This role is a one year fixed term contract available only to students/graduates who will have completed at least two years of their bachelors degree before their 2025 start date. The start date for this role is flexible and can be negotiated
- Creativity & imagination: Software is part science and part art - creative “outside the box” thinking can take you a long way
- Patience & attention to detail: Thinking through a solution and paying attention to the details to ensure that successful last 20% of a project will set you up for success
- Curiosity and proactivity: Dissecting how systems work to understand their behaviour and going as far as possible in discovering different learning areas
- Humility & empathy: Nobody wants to work with a “brilliant jerk” persona. We value these human qualities to provide a better working environment for all
- Distributed systems: Having a broad understanding of distributed systems can make the difference in hitting the ground running and being effective in our organisation
- Team spirit: We’re looking for team players - people able to help, support, and work in a team as a “great” team
- Knowledge of software/programming languages: Most successful candidates will already have good knowledge of at least two programming languages (Golang is a plus)
- Good communication and presentation skills: Our platform evolves at pace - effective communication is critical in our highly technical environment
- Analytical skills: Much like debugging software, often, our research and development work relies on spotting patterns. An analytical persona will be compelling with us
- Enthusiasm / “GSD” attitude: You must be enthusiastic and have a “can-do” attitude. You won’t have all the answers - we expect you to balance self-learning alongside asking your colleagues and mentors to get the job done
What the job involves
- Your role will contribute to the entire application lifecycle of our control-plane software (Golang), which orchestrates 10,000s of VMs in our multi-cloud (AWS, GCP & Azure) Kubernetes platform
- We run 100,000s of containers, so you’ll become familiar with enhancing the existing tech stack, including monitoring
- Apache Kafka technology powers over 80% of the world's largest companies. You’ll be working on our hosted offering (Confluent Cloud), which powers many big-name businesses such as: Ao.com, Bosch, CapitalOne, Citigroup, Deutsche Bahn, Domino’s, eBay, Expedia, Intel, Nationwide, Priceline, Ticketmaster, Urban Outfitters
- Research and proactivity - interns and full-time employees alike are expected to define our technical roadmap through their knowledge and research of the problem domain
- Design - we use a lightweight “one-pager” architecture process to propose changes, solicit feedback and collaborate across teams for change control
- Implementation - this is where you’re likely to spend most of your time
- Golang code - typically Kubernetes operators - to manage container-based cloud infrastructure
- Infrastructure - ownership of cloud infrastructure through IaC methodologies (e.g. Terraform)
- Persistence layer (databases & streams) - managing Postgres or Kafka persistence systems
- UX - creating management and developer tooling for use by colleagues outside of your team
- Security - our customers trust us with their data, and we must maintain security best practices throughout our platform
- Testing - we pride ourselves on a well-tested codebase with high levels of code coverage and end-to-end testing (CI/CD pipelines)
- Continuous improvement - Keeping up-to-date with recent technological and software developments
- Proudness - You build it, and you run it! With our support, we expect you to be proud, enthusiastic, responsible and accountable for your deliverables, maintenance and setting solid foundations for future evolution
- Code in Golang
- Work with 1,000s of huge Kubernetes clusters
- Operate 10,000s of cloud VMs
- Learn all the major clouds (AWS, GCP and Azure)
Application process
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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 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
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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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