Distributed Systems Software Engineer - WarpStream

Confluent; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Confluent is seeking a Senior Engineer for WarpStream, a Kafka-compatible streaming platform. Work on storage engine, scalable control plane, and features like transactions and multi-region clusters, across AWS, GCP and Azure. The team is fully remote with distributed engineers in multiple countries, including the USA.

You will solve complex distributed systems problems at scale and ship high-performance services while supporting customers and developer tooling.

Qualifications

• 5+ years designing, building, scaling and supporting backend systems in production.
• Strong programming and algorithmic skills across major languages.
• Experience with distributed storage and systems engineering.
• Proven delivery focus with clear communication and documentation.
• Operational excellence for large production services.

Responsibilities

• Independently drive end-to-end execution of complex technical projects.
• Build mission-critical backend services delivering value to customers.
• Architect, design, develop and operationalize high-performance, scalable services.
• Troubleshoot and debug issues inside a deep stack of microservices, containers, and virtualization.
• Ensure service readiness and meet availability and performance SLAs.

Skills

Backend design

Programming skills

Distributed systems

Delivery & communication

Operational excellence

Leadership & mentorship

Job description

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

WarpStream is an Apache Kafka compatible data streaming platform built directly on top of object storage with zero local disks. It’s delivered to customers as a BYOC-style offering. The WarpStream team is responsible for this product offering from top to bottom, and as a Senior Engineer you’ll do everything from working on the storage engine running in the Agents, improving the scalability of our multi-tenant control plane, implementing new features like transactions, active-active multi-regions clusters, and even write some HTML/Javascript for our developer console. We’re a small team of 15 engineers, so you’ll be expected to work across the entire stack from bashing bits at the network level to making sure our UI provides a great developer experience.You will have an opportunity to solve complex distributed systems problems at scale. You 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 WarpStream 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.

What You Will Bring

• 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 te