{Confluent} Senior Software Engineer II - Confluent Fleet Management / Unified Deployment

Your Role and Responsibilities

• Build and evolve the control plane that manages software rollout, upgrades, recovery, and lifecycle operations across large multi-cloud fleets.
• Develop systems that coordinate placement, maintenance, state transitions, and recovery workflows for services running across Confluent Cloud.
• Design and enhance APIs that provide clean abstractions for deployment workflows, service lifecycle management, and fleet-wide operational controls.
• Build and optimize integrations with the broader Confluent Cloud platform to enable seamless end-to-end operations across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
• Implement and strengthen isolation, security controls, and safe operational boundaries across deployment and runtime management systems.
• Drive operational excellence through monitoring, automated health checks, remediation workflows, and self-healing capabilities.

Technical and Professional Expertise

• 6+ years of experience delivering scalable software solutions.
• Deep expertise in Kubernetes, including controller development, operator patterns, and multi-cluster architectures.
• Strong proficiency in Go, with experience building production-grade backend or platform services.
• Experience with fleet-wide lifecycle management, deployment orchestration, or cloud infrastructure automation.
• Experience running production services in cloud environments, with strong knowledge of reliability, networking, and security fundamentals.
• Proven ability to independently own significant technical projects and collaborate effectively across teams.

Preferred Technical and Professional Experience

• Experience with multi-tenant platform architectures and security isolation patterns.
• Familiarity with gRPC, Protobuf, and API design for internal platform services.
• Demonstrated track record of mentorship and technical leadership.