Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Traffic

We’re not just building better tech. We’re rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real-time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them.

It takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together.

One Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.

About the Role:

To realize Confluent’s enormous potential, we are looking for software engineers, at various levels, to grow our Traffic team which is responsible for building and managing the networking fabric of Confluent Cloud. Cloud networking is a strategic investment area for Confluent with the potential to impact the company’s top and bottom line. The data plane area in the Traffic team focuses on the performance, security, reliability, and cost optimizations for all traffic that ingresses and egresses a customer's Kafka cluster on Confluent Cloud.

We are looking for someone with an interest in building large-scale distributed systems, with a focus on building and managing network data planes for containerized workloads in the cloud. The ideal candidate would be passionate about network data plane performance, scale, cost optimizations, and building robust software.

What You Will Do:

• Build the software underpinning the mission-critical Confluent Cloud network data plane platform. You will play a crucial role in designing, developing and operationalizing high performance, scalable, reliable and resilient systems.

• Independently drive execution of software projects to deliver complex projects in production with a focus on quality.

• Build upon open source software to deliver business impact.

• Troubleshoot issues and improve ops for complex technical stack that spans all the 3 clouds and includes microservices, containers, and virtualization.

What You Will Bring:

• 2-5 years of relevant cloud infrastructure/cloud networking experience

• Experience/knowledge with public clouds (AWS, Azure or GCP)

• Practical experience with Kubernetes and containerization technologies

• Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development

• Experience building and operating large-scale systems

• Solid understanding at a systems level (disk, network, operating systems, etc)

• Proficiency in C++, Go, Python, or other statically typed languages

• A self-starter with the ability to work effectively in teams

• BS, MS in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience

What Gives You an Edge:

• A Strong networking background combined with your software engineering experience

Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.

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