Senior Software Engineer - Confluent Cloud Platform

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Role and responsibilities at a glance for a Confluent Cloud Infrastructure Software Engineer within the Confluent Cloud Platform and PaaS product.

• Design, implement and maintain Golang infrastructure services (typically implemented as Kubernetes operators) to deliver the Confluent cloud foundations to the wider engineering organization.
• Work with Terraform, Datadog, Prometheus; maintain a strong command of Linux, public cloud and networking;
  Golang software engineering will be the primary focus.
• Collaborate with the Confluent engineering team to build the PaaS product.
• Ensure availability, performance, monitoring, emergency response, and capacity planning of the Confluent cloud.
• Contribute to architecture and operational design points to optimize large-scale data systems (thousands of instances) for security and reliability.

• What You Will Bring: BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• Relevant cloud infrastructure/cloud networking experience.
• Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development.
• Experience building and operating large-scale systems.
• Solid understanding of basic systems operations (disk, network, operating systems, etc.).
• A self-starter with ability to work effectively in teams.
• Proficiency in Go, Python, C++, or other statically typed languages.
• Experience/knowledge with public clouds (AWS, Azure or GCP).

• Experience with Golang is advantageous.
• Experience using Apache Kafka is a big plus.

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