Senior Staff Software Engineer - Confluent Kafka Storage (Remote)
About the role
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Responsibilities
- Serve as a key technical authority and architectural anchor for the Kora Storage team.
- Tackle deep systems-level challenges across state management, hardware optimization, disk/network I/O, and fault tolerance.
- Architect and implement critical storage components.
- Set technical standards.
- Partner with leaders across the broader organization to shape the core roadmap.
- Mentor senior and junior engineers to foster a culture of technical excellence.
- Design and develop a highly available, performant, reliable, durable, scalable, and multi-tenant storage engine for Kora.
- Set the standard for engineering excellence; be instrumental in driving technical solutions end-to-end, working closely with the team and key stakeholders to design, architect, and develop top-notch solutions.
- Collaborate with product management,