Remote Distributed Systems Engineer – Scalable Backend

Confluent; Lincoln (NE); On-site; USD 197,400 - 271,200; Full time

Job summary

Confluent is hiring a Senior Engineer for WarpStream, a Kafka-compatible data streaming platform built on object storage with zero local disks. The role spans storage engines, multi-tenant control plane scalability, and features like transactions and active-active regions.

You’ll work across the stack from network to UI, collaborating with a small team of engineers. You’ll build services that span AWS, GCP, and Azure, and be on-call for operations.

Qualifications

• 5+ years industry experience designing, building, scaling and supporting backend systems in production.

Responsibilities

• Independently drive execution of complex technical projects end to end.
• Build mission-critical backend services that deliver value to our customers and ensure scalable, resilient operations.
• Troubleshoot and debug a deep stack including microservices, containers, and virtualization.
• Ensure operational readiness and meet availability and performance SLAs.

Skills

Backend systems

Java

Go

C/C++

Python

Job description

Confluent is hiring a Senior Engineer for WarpStream, a Kafka-compatible data streaming platform built on object storage with zero local disks. The role spans storage engines, multi-tenant control plane scalability, and features like transactions and active-active regions.

You’ll work across the stack from network to UI, collaborating with a small team of engineers. You’ll build services that span AWS, GCP, and Azure, and be on-call for operations.