Senior Software Engineer - Confluent Cloud Control Plane

About the role

The team's charter includes building and expanding our extensive cloud infrastructure, delivering clearly defined ways to interact with cloud resources and ensuring a uniform experience for managing these resources. Additionally, we prioritize delivering a dependable, discoverable, resilient and secure solution that our customers can depend on.

Responsibilities

• Independently drive execution of complex technical projects end to end.
• Build mission-critical backend services that deliver value to our customers.
• You will play a crucial role in architecting, designing, developing and operationalizing high performance, scalable, reliable and resilient services.
• Troubleshoot and debug technical issues inside a deep and complex technical stack that includes microservices, containers, and virtualization.
• Ensure operational readiness of the services and meet the availability and performance SLA commitments to our customers.

Requirements

This job can be performed from anywhere in the US.

Preferred Education

• Master's Degree Required

Technical and Professional Expertise

• Industry hands-on experience designing, building, scaling and supporting backend systems in production with a solid grasp on good software engineering practices such as code reviews, deep focus on quality, and documentation
• Strong programming and algorithmic skills
• Proficiency in a major programming language, e.g. Java, Go, C / C++, Python, etc.
• Experience in driving operational excellence for large, production services

Preferred Technical and Professional Experience

• Proven track record of leading the delivery of large-scale, highly available, low latency, high quality systems
• Deep hands-on technical expertise in large scale systems engineering or distributed systems
• On-call experience handling critical systems