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Your Role And Responsibilities

About the Role:

The Confluent Cloud Platform based on Apache Kafka is the leading Cloud Native Platform as a Service for streaming data infrastructure, but this is just the beginning. We are building a PaaS enabling customer around the globe to deliver streaming applications.

What You Will Do

Design, implement and maintain Golang infrastructure services (typically implemented as Kubernetes operators) to deliver the Confluent cloud foundations to the wider engineering organizationTerraform, Datadog, Prometheus and a strong command of Linux, public cloud and networking should come as standard - though Golang software engineering will be your primary focusAs a Confluent Cloud Infrastructure Software Engineer, you will be working alongside the rest of the Confluent engineers to build our PaaS productYou, and the rest of the team, will be responsible for the availability, performance, monitoring, emergency response, and capacity planning of the Confluent cloudIf you love the hum of big data systems covering 10,000's of instances, thinking about how to make them run as smoothly and securely as possible, and want to have a big influence on the architecture plus operational design points of this new product, then you will fit right in

Preferred Education

None

Required Technical And Professional Expertise

Extensive demonstrated cloud infrastructure/cloud networking experienceStrong fundamentals in distributed systems design and developmentExperience building and operating large-scale systemsSolid understanding of basic systems operations (disk, network, operating systems, etc)A self-starter with the ability to work effectively in teamsProficiency in Go, Python, C++, or other statically typed languagesExperience/knowledge with public clouds (AWS, Azure or GCP)

Preferred Technical And Professional Experience

Experience with Golang is advantageousExperience using Apache Kafka is a big plus

Senior Software Engineer II - Confluent

What the job involves