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Remote Senior Software Engineer II

at Confluent

Posted 1 day ago 3 applied

Description:

  • Confluent is focused on transforming how data moves and is utilized, ensuring it streams in near real-time for enhanced company responsiveness and smarter building.
  • The Platform Security team is responsible for developing cutting-edge security services and technologies that impact all teams within the company.
  • This role is critical for improving the overall security posture of Confluent’s internal services and unblocking various product and engineering initiatives.
  • Responsibilities include creating and enhancing services, systems, and infrastructure for security functionality and compliance for Confluent Cloud.
  • The role involves partnering with Product and Engineering teams to gather requirements and ensure security systems meet functionality, scalability, and availability needs.
  • Collaboration across teams is essential to verify and deploy production changes to Confluent Cloud services and infrastructure.
  • Maintaining critical monitoring and alerting systems is necessary for the smooth operation of Confluent Cloud services and infrastructure.

Requirements:

  • Candidates must have 5+ years of relevant engineering work experience with a strong delivery record.
  • Expertise in Cloud Native technologies and experience operating large production workloads in the cloud is required.
  • Deep knowledge of Kubernetes and containerization is essential.
  • Strong expertise in Infrastructure-as-Code technologies such as Terraform, Cloudformation, AWS CDK, and Pulumi is necessary.
  • Proficiency in Terraform for deploying infrastructure and experience delivering production code in high-level programming languages like Java, Scala, Python, or Go is required.
  • A solid understanding of Distributed Systems and their design is essential.
  • Experience with telemetry tooling to monitor production systems is necessary.
  • Candidates should possess strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills for critical services.
  • Exceptional teamwork and collaboration skills are required, along with the ability to work independently in a remote-first environment.
  • Experience with a rotating on-call schedule for support is necessary.
  • A BS Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience is required.

Benefits:

  • Confluent promotes a culture of belonging, ensuring that diversity of perspectives is valued and encouraged.
  • The company is committed to being an equal opportunity workplace, making employment decisions based on job-related criteria without discrimination.
  • Employees are provided with opportunities to lead, grow, and challenge the status quo in a supportive environment.