Staff Software Engineer - WarpStream

Confluent; Massachusetts; Remote; USD 230,000 - 272,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology leader is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for its groundbreaking data streaming platform, WarpStream. This role involves architecting and building backend services that solve complex distributed systems problems across various cloud providers. The ideal candidate will have over 10 years of experience and a deep passion for distributed storage systems, ensuring operational excellence in a fully remote setting with a diverse global team.

Qualifications

• 10+ years industry experience designing, building, scaling backend systems.
• Strong focus on coding best practices like code reviews and documentation.
• Experience in complex technical projects with a customer-centric approach.

Responsibilities

• Drive execution of technical projects end to end.
• Troubleshoot and debug issues in a complex technical stack.
• Build scalable and reliable backend services.

Skills

Proficiency in Java

Proficiency in Go

Proficiency in C / C++

Proficiency in Python

Strong programming and algorithmic skills

Job description

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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

WarpStream is an Apache Kafka compatible data streaming platform built directly on top of object storage with zero local disks. It’s delivered to customers as a BYOC-style offering. The WarpStream team is responsible for this product offering from top to bottom, and as a Senior Engineer you’ll do everything from working on the storage engine running in the Agents, improving the scalability of our multi-tenant control plane, implementing new features like transactions, active-active multi-regions clusters, and even write some HTML/Javascript for our developer console. We’re a small team of < 10 engineers, so you’ll be expected to work across the entire stack from bashing bits at the network level to making sure our UI provides a great developer experience.

You will have an opportunity to solve complex distributed systems problems at scale. You will build services that can operate across different cloud service providers like AWS, GCP, and Azure. You’ll be on-call for all of it.

The WarpStream team is fully remote and geographically distributed, currently we have engineers in: Spain, France, Canada, Ireland, and the USA.

What You Will Do

• 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.
  
  

What You Will Bring

• 10+ 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
  
  

What Gives You An Edge

• Proven track record of delivering large-scale, highly available, high quality systems
• Hands-on technical expertise in large scale systems engineering or distributed systems
• On-call experience handling critical systems
  
  

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.

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. This position has an annual estimated salary of 230,800 - 271,200 USD, and a competitive equity package. 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 .

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Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Software Development, Computer Networking Products, and IT Services and IT Consulting

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