Remote Staff Software Engineer- Security Platform (Remote - USA)

Description:

• We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to architect, build, and operate security services that are core to the company’s cloud infrastructure and product platforms.
• This is a hybrid engineering role, blending deep software development expertise with hands-on operational excellence.
• You will design highly scalable security services such as authentication, authorization, identity, secrets management, policy enforcement, and security telemetry pipelines.
• It is essential to ensure these systems are reliable, observable, and resilient in production.
• You will work across engineering, security, compliance, and platform organizations to deliver secure-by-default building blocks that empower product teams to integrate security seamlessly.
• Responsibilities include architecting, designing, and developing security platform services with a strong focus on scalability, security, and developer experience.
• You will lead operational design for reliability, building comprehensive observability, monitoring, and incident response automation into security-critical services.
• The role involves building automation and tooling to drive self-healing systems, proactive risk detection, failure recovery, and continuous resilience testing.
• You will collaborate with compliance, governance, and risk teams to translate regulatory and policy requirements into scalable technical controls.
• Leading technical design reviews, security architecture reviews, and incident postmortems for platform-level incidents is also part of the job.
• Mentoring engineers across multiple disciplines on both security and operational best practices is expected.
• You will own the end-to-end delivery of services, from initial design and development through deployment, production hardening, and lifecycle maintenance.

Requirements:

• Candidates must have 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with significant experience operating ring-0/mission critical systems.
• Strong backend software development experience in languages such as Go, Java, Rust, or Python is required.
• Expertise with distributed systems, cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure), Kubernetes, service mesh, and container orchestration is necessary.
• A strong understanding of security domains including IAM, OAuth2, OIDC, PKI, secrets management, policy engines, audit pipelines, and zero trust architecture is essential.
• Experience in building highly reliable, observable, and resilient production systems is required.
• Operational expertise in SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, on-call leadership, and incident management is needed.
• Strong collaboration skills to drive alignment across engineering, security, and compliance stakeholders are important.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence technical and business leaders are necessary.

Benefits:

• The company promotes a culture of belonging, ensuring that diverse perspectives are valued and everyone has the opportunity to lead, grow, and challenge what’s possible.
• Confluent is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace, where employment decisions are based on job-related criteria without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other classification protected by law.