Site Reliability Engineer, Confluent

Cloud Reliability

Salary not provided
AWS
Kubernetes
GCP
Go
Terraform
C++
C
Azure
Senior level
Remote in Canada
Confluent

Data streaming platform

Job no longer available

Confluent

Data streaming platform

1001+ employees

B2BEnterpriseInternal toolsBig dataCloud Computing

Job no longer available

Salary not provided
AWS
Kubernetes
GCP
Go
Terraform
C++
C
Azure
Senior level
Remote in Canada

1001+ employees

B2BEnterpriseInternal toolsBig dataCloud Computing

Company mission

Founded by the team that built Apache Kafka, their mission is to make managing Kafka easy.

Role

Who you are

  • 5+ years of relevant software engineering experience
  • BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience
  • Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development
  • Experience building and operating large-scale systems
  • Solid understanding of basic systems operations (disk, network, operating systems, etc)
  • A self-starter with the ability to work effectively in teams
  • Proficiency in Go, C/C++, or other statically typed languages
  • Experience/knowledge with public clouds (AWS, Azure or GCP)

Desirable

  • Expertise in creating tools that alleviate manual processes and improve system performance
  • Kubernetes Experience
  • Terraform or similar config management tech Experience

What the job involves

  • Our team focuses on adding reliability to Confluent Cloud by providing tools that help with the scalability of our systems and processes
  • Our responsibilities cut across the engineering organization where we gain knowledge in both breadth and depth of the inner workings
  • Our goal is to help teams spend time building features for our customers rather than in manual processes or operational toil. We build and partner in managing the critical infrastructure they need to make their services available, durable, and efficient
  • We are passionate about reducing downtime, incidents, and manual toil
  • Develop and maintain tools that improve the scalability and reliability of Confluent Cloud
  • Collaborate across the organization to understand and address engineering-wide challenges
  • Drive initiatives to reduce manual intervention, operational toil, and the potential for downtime or incidents
  • Partner with other engineering teams to drive the adoption of tooling that helps manage their services with high availability, durability, and efficiency

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Insights

Led by a woman
Top investors

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

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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