Remote Senior Software Engineer II

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.