Senior Distributed Systems Engineer — Remote & High-Impact

Apply; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Confluent is seeking a Senior Engineer to own backend development and distributed systems across multiple cloud providers. You will drive end-to-end technical projects, architect high-performance services, and play a key role in keeping systems reliable and scalable in a remote, globally distributed team.

You will work across a stack that includes microservices, containers, and virtualization, partnering with product and platform teams to deliver robust data streaming capabilities and

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 across languages and platforms, with a track record of delivering reliable systems.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Backend design

Distributed systems

Go

Java

C/C++

Python

Code reviews

Leadership

Job description

Confluent is seeking a Senior Engineer to own backend development and distributed systems across multiple cloud providers. You will drive end-to-end technical projects, architect high-performance services, and play a key role in keeping systems reliable and scalable in a remote, globally distributed team.

You will work across a stack that includes microservices, containers, and virtualization, partnering with product and platform teams to deliver robust data streaming capabilities and