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.
