Senior Cloud Distributed Systems Engineer

Confluent; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Confluent is hiring in the United States for a role focused on building highly available, secure, scalable distributed systems in the cloud. You will contribute across the compute layer of Kora, collaborating with engineers and stakeholders to design, implement, and operate production-grade solutions.

The team emphasizes collaboration, customer focus, and deep problem solving. Ideal candidates have 4+ years in cloud infrastructure and strong knowledge of JVM languages and modern distributed

Qualifications

• BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 4+ years of relevant cloud infrastructure/cloud networking experience.
• Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development.
• Experience building and operating large-scale systems in the Cloud.
• Solid understanding of basic systems operations (disk, network, operating systems, etc).
• A self starter with the ability to work effectively in teams.
• Proficiency in Java, Scala, C/C++, Go or other statically typed languages.

Responsibilities

• Driven and excited about challenges of delivering complex projects in production with a focus on quality.
• Customer focused - making customers more successful by taking on their most challenging problems motivates you.
• Have a strong sense of teamwork and able to make decisions which benefit the team and company.
• Identify root causes, and get beyond treating symptoms - motivated to dig deep and solve hard problems.

Skills

Distributed systems

Cloud infrastructure

Java

Scala

C/C++

Go

Education

BS/MS/PhD in computer science or related field

Job description

Confluent is hiring in the United States for a role focused on building highly available, secure, scalable distributed systems in the cloud. You will contribute across the compute layer of Kora, collaborating with engineers and stakeholders to design, implement, and operate production-grade solutions.

The team emphasizes collaboration, customer focus, and deep problem solving. Ideal candidates have 4+ years in cloud infrastructure and strong knowledge of JVM languages and modern distributed