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Senior Software Engineer II, Kora Compute

Confluent

Peru (NE)

Remote

USD 192,000 - 226,000

Full time

Yesterday
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Job summary

Confluent is seeking talented engineers passionate about building cloud-native systems and solving complex distributed infrastructure challenges. Join a collaborative team that values curiosity and teamwork in delivering innovative data streaming solutions. This role prioritizes experience in cloud technologies and systems design.

Benefits

Competitive pay and benefits
Employee equity offers
Diversity and inclusion initiatives

Qualifications

  • 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.

Responsibilities

  • Drive technical solutions end-to-end for cloud-native services.
  • Solve complex distributed systems and infrastructure problems.
  • Contribute to delivering complex projects with a focus on quality.

Skills

Distributed systems design
Cloud infrastructure
Java
Scala
C/C++
Go

Education

BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or related field

Job description

Location:
Remote, Texas
Employment Type:
FullTime
Location Type:
Remote
Department
Engineering
Compensation:
$192.2K - $225.8K - Offers Equity
At Confluent, we are committed to providing competitive pay and benefits that are in line with industry standards. We analyze and carefully consider several factors when determining compensation, including work history, education, professional experience, and location. The actual pay may vary depending on your skills, qualifications, experience, and work location. In addition, Confluent offers a wide range of employee benefits. To learn more about our benefits click here (https://confluentbenefits.com/) _._
Overview
We're not just building better tech. We're rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn't sit still. Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real-time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them.
It takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together.
One Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.
About the Role:
We are a team of passionate engineers who love solving complex distributed systems and infrastructure problems. We are building Kora from the ground up to be a true managed service for clients who demand high levels of availability and performance at the lowest cost of ownership. In this role, you will be working on building highly available, reliable, secure, scalable, and multi-tenant Kora's compute layer. You will be instrumental in driving the technical solutions end-to-end, working closely with the team and key stakeholders to design, architect, and develop top-notch solutions. Here are examples of some of the challenges we've taken on in recent years:
Kora: A Cloud-Native Event Streaming Platform For Kafka (https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol16/p3822-povzner.pdf)
Apache Kafka's Next-Gen Rebalance Protocol: Towards More Stable and Scalable Consumer Groups
From On-Prem to Cloud-Native: Multi-Tenancy in Confluent Cloud (https://www.confluent.io/blog/cloud-native-multi-tenant-kafka-with-confluent-cloud/)
Speed, Scale, Storage: Our Journey from Apache Kafka to Performance in Confluent Cloud
Benchmarking Confluent Cloud (https://assets.confluent.io/m/2d7c883a8aa6a71d/original/20200501-WP-Benchmark\Your\Dedicated\Apache\Kafka\Cluster\on\Confluent\Cloud.pdf)
What You Will Do:
- 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
What You Will Bring:
- 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 teamsProficiency in Java, Scala, C/C++, Go or other statically typed languages
What Gives You an Edge:
- In-depth familiarity with the JVM
- A strong background in distributed storage systems or databases
- Experience in the areas of resource management and QoS
- Experience/knowledge with public clouds (AWS, Azure or GCP)
- Interest in evangelism (giving talks at tech conferences, writing blog posts evangelizing Kafka)
- Experience working on databases or data storage
Ready to build what's next? Let's get in motion.
Come As You Are
Belonging isn't a perk here. It's the baseline. We work across time zones and backgrounds, knowing the best ideas come from different perspectives. And we make space for everyone to lead, grow, and challenge what's possible.
We're proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Employment decisions are based on 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 law.

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