Confluent - Software Engineer - WarpStream

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With a culture that values innovation, growth, and continuous learning, IBM Software places you at the heart of IBM’s product and technology landscape. Here, you’ll have the tools and opportunities to advance your career while creating software that changes the world.

Your role and responsibilities

You will have an opportunity to solve complex distributed systems problems  will build services that can operate across different cloud service providers like AWS, GCP, and Azure. You’ll be on-call for all of it.

The Warp Stream team is fully remote and geographically distributed, currently we have engineers in:
Spain, France, Canada, Ireland, and the USA.

What You Will Do:

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.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

5+ years industry 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

Deep curiosity and enthusiasm for distributed systems and storage systems

Strong focus on project delivery and communication skills

Experience in driving operational excellence for large production services

A strong sense of customer centricity, teamwork, technical leadership and mentorship and are excited about team and company success

Preferred technical and professional experience

Proven track record of delivering large-scale, highly available, high quality systems

Hands-on technical expertise in large scale systems engineering or distributed systems

On-call experience handling critical systems

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