Confluent - Staff Software Engineer - Infrastructure
About the role
The Secure Compute Team builds and operates the foundational infrastructure layer that powers Confluent Cloud. Our mission is to enable the secure execution of code and data processing in multi-tenant environments across AWS, Azure, and GCP at scale. We provide the essential building blocks, including isolation, identity, and networking, that empower both our customers and internal product teams to innovate without compromising security. As Confluent's product portfolio continues to expand, our team sits at the center of the company's growth strategy. We own a polyglot, container-based runtime that operates across thousands of clusters globally, solving some of the most complex challenges in distributed systems and cloud-native architecture. By balancing world-class security with operational efficiency, we ensure Confluent Cloud remains the trusted platform for mission-critical workloads, even in the most highly regulated industries.
As a Staff Software Engineer on the Secure Compute Platform team, you will be a key technical leader responsible for building and evolving a next-generation, multi-tenant, cloud-native compute platform that safely runs both trusted and untrusted workloads at scale. Our platform is built on Kubernetes and operates across a large fleet of clusters spanning multiple public clouds, providing a unified abstraction layer for workload execution, lifecycle management, security, and operational excellence.
Responsibilities
- Define and drive the technical direction for Secure Compute, including platform architecture, runtime capabilities, and security models for running trusted and untrusted workloads at scale
- Design and implement platform APIs and Kubernetes controllers/operators, primarily in Go, that power workload lifecycle management, autoscaling, placement, and workload isolation for containers and serverless-style functions
- Partner with product and platform teams to shape and