Staff Software Engineer - K2

With Confluent, organisations 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 everyday – we're creating an entirely new category within data infrastructure - data streaming. This technology will allow every organisation 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:

The Kora Background Plane team has the vision to build the best experience for Kora - Confluent’s cloud native Kafka service. As a Staff Software engineer, you will design and build efficient and performant algorithms for right sizing, load balancing and seamless scalability of Kora. You will be instrumental in driving the vision and roadmap providing technical leadership, mentoring, and enabling a high-performing engineering team to tackle complex distributed data challenges at scale.

What You Will Do:

• Build the software underpinning mission-critical Kora Background Plane platform. You will play a crucial role in designing, developing and operationalizing high performance, scalable, reliable and resilient systems
• Collaborate effectively across engineering, product, field teams and other key stakeholders to create and execute impactful roadmap for the Kora Background plane team.
• Meet and exceed Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for critical cloud services owned by the Kora Background Plane team.
• Evaluate and enhance the efficiency of our platform's technology stack, keeping pace with industry trends and adopting state-of-the-art solutions
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship and drive strong teamwork

What You Will Bring:

• 12+ years of relevant software development experience
• 5+ years of experience with designing, building, and scaling distributed systems
• Deep technical expertise in large scale distributed systems
• Experience running production services in the cloud with demonstrated operational excellence
• Proficiency in Java, Scala
• Ability to influence the team, peers, and management using effective communication and collaborative techniques
• Proven experience in leading and mentoring technical teams
• BS, MS or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience

What Gives You an Edge:

• A strong background in distributed storage systems or databases
• Experience in the areas of load balancing stateful distributed systems
• Experience developing SaaS services on public clouds providers(AWS, Azure or GCP)
• Interest in evangelism (giving talks at tech conferences, writing blog posts evangelizing Kafka)
  
  

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