Senior Software Engineer II

Confluent; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative company is seeking a skilled engineer to enhance security services for their cloud infrastructure. This role involves creating and improving security functionality, collaborating across teams to ensure compliance, and maintaining monitoring systems. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with cloud-native technologies, Kubernetes, and Infrastructure-as-Code tools like Terraform. Join a forward-thinking team that values diversity and inclusion, and be part of a mission that impacts organizations globally through data streaming technology.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of engineering experience with a strong delivery record.
• Expertise in Cloud Native technologies and large production workloads.

Responsibilities

• Create and improve security services for Confluent Cloud.
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering to gather requirements.

Skills

Cloud Native technologies

Kubernetes

Terraform

Java

Scala

Python

Go

Distributed Systems

Telemetry tooling

Problem-solving

Education

BS Degree in Computer Science

Equivalent experience

Tools

Terraform

AWS CDK

Pulumi

Cloudformation

Job description

With Confluent, organizations can harness the full power of continuously flowing data to innovate and win in the modern digital world. We have a purpose that drives us to do better every day – we're creating an entirely new category within data infrastructure - data streaming. This technology will allow every organization to create experiences and use the power of data in ways that profoundly impact the way we all live. This impact is our purpose and drives us to do better every day.

One Confluent. One team. One Data Streaming Platform.

Data Connects Us.

About the Role:

Have you ever wanted to explore an opportunity to work on cutting edge security services and technologies that have a vast impact across all teams in a company? The Platform Security team is working on cutting-edge security services and technologies. These will be leveraged by the whole Engineering organization across Confluent thereby solidifying the overall security posture of Confluent’s internal services. This team is at the forefront of driving this charter and is critical to unblocking multiple different product and engineering initiatives at Confluent.

What You Will Do:

• Create and improve services, systems and infrastructure that will provide security functionality and compliance for Confluent Cloud’s services and infrastructure
• Partner across all of Product and Engineering to gather requirements and ensure that the security systems are designed and built per their functionality, scalability, and availability needs
• Collaborate broadly across teams to verify and deploy production changes to Confluent Cloud services and infrastructure
• Maintain critical monitoring and alerting systems required to ensure smooth operations of Confluent Cloud services and infrastructure

What You Will Bring:

• 5+ years of relevant engineering work experience, with a strong delivery record.
• Expertise in Cloud Native technologies with experience operating large production workloads in the cloud. Experience in large scale infrastructure deployments in the cloud is desirable
• Deep knowledge of Kubernetes and containerization
• Strong expertise in Infrastructure-as-Code technologies like Terraform, Cloudformation, AWS CDK, Pulumi
• Must have Terraform for deploying infrastructure, and have delivered production code in high level programming like Java/Scala/Python/Go
• Strong fundamentals of Distributed Systems and their design
• Experience with telemetry tooling to monitor production systems
• Confidence with problem-solving and troubleshooting critical services
• Exceptional teamwork, collaboration skills, and the ability to act critically with minimal supervision at times in a remote first environment
• Experience with a rotating on-call schedule to provide support
• BS Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience

Come As You Are

At Confluent, equality is a core tenet of our culture. We are committed to building an inclusive global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences. The more diverse we are, the richer our community and the broader our impact. Employment decisions are made on the basis of job-related criteria without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other classification protected by applicable law.

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