Senior Distributed Systems Engineer, Remote

Confluent; New York (NY); On-site; USD 197,400 - 271,200; Full time

Job summary

Confluent is hiring a Senior Engineer for WarpStream, a Kafka-compatible, cloud-native data streaming platform built on object storage. This fully remote, globally distributed team works across Spain, France, Canada, Ireland and the USA.

You will drive complex backend projects, architect scalable services, and ensure reliability across multi-cloud environments. You will tackle performance, scalability, and operational challenges, contributing to a high-velocity, collaborative engineering culture

Qualifications

• 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

Responsibilities

• 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.

Job description

Confluent is hiring a Senior Engineer for WarpStream, a Kafka-compatible, cloud-native data streaming platform built on object storage. This fully remote, globally distributed team works across Spain, France, Canada, Ireland and the USA.

You will drive complex backend projects, architect scalable services, and ensure reliability across multi-cloud environments. You will tackle performance, scalability, and operational challenges, contributing to a high-velocity, collaborative engineering culture