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.
What You Will Do
Build mission-critical infrastructure: Design, develop, and operationalize high-performance, scalable, and resilient backend services that form the core of the Connect Cloud Platform.
Develop the execution engine: Build the orchestration, auto-scaling, and lifecycle management systems required to reliably run thousands of distributed Kafka Connect workloads in a multi-tenant cloud environment.
Ensure robust isolation & security: Solve complex distributed systems challenges to ensure strict resource isolation, security, and performance guarantees for diverse workloads running on our shared platform.
Troubleshoot & debug: Dive deep into a complex technical stack that includes microservices, Kubernetes, containers, and virtualization to resolve critical issues.
Drive operational excellence: Ensure the operational readiness of our services and consistently meet availability and performance SLA commitments to our customers.
Innovate & improve: Act as a strategic engineer who constantly identifies and implements architectural, process, and operational improvements.
8+ 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.
Experience configuring and deploying distributed systems and microservices using modern tools, e.g. Kubernetes, Helm, etc.
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.
BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
Proven track record of delivering large-scale, highly available, low latency, high quality systems.
Hands-on technical expertise in large scale systems engineering or distributed systems.
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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Skills Required
- 8+ years industry experience designing, building, scaling and supporting backend systems in production
- Proficiency in a major programming language (Java, Go, C/C++, Python)
- Experience configuring and deploying distributed systems and microservices using tools such as Kubernetes and Helm
- Experience driving operational excellence for large production services and meeting availability/performance SLAs
- Strong programming and algorithmic skills, code review experience, focus on quality and documentation
- Strong project delivery, communication skills, technical leadership, mentorship, and customer centricity
- BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or related field, or equivalent work experience
- Proven track record delivering large-scale, highly available, low-latency systems
- Hands-on technical expertise in large scale systems engineering or distributed systems
Confluent Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Confluent and has not been reviewed or approved by Confluent.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is positioned as competitive to market-leading for engineering, product, and senior go-to-market roles, with broad satisfaction signals across much of the company. Compensation is framed as a structured package spanning base salary plus variable pay and equity components.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity participation via RSUs is repeatedly described as a meaningful part of total rewards, often cited as a generous contributor to overall package strength. Refresher grants and ongoing equity awards are also highlighted as part of the ownership proposition.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-away programs are presented as comprehensive, including flexible/unlimited PTO, volunteer time off, and periodic company-wide recharge days. Philanthropy programs such as donation matching further broaden the non-cash rewards experience.
Confluent Insights
What We Do
Your data shouldn’t be a problem to manage. It should be your superpower. The Confluent data streaming platform transforms organizations with trustworthy, real-time data that seamlessly spans your entire environment and powers innovation across every use case. Create smarter, deploy faster, and maximize efficiency with a true data streaming platform from the pioneers in data streaming. Learn more at confluent.io.
Why Work With Us
At Confluent, we’re not just building better tech, we’re rewriting how data moves. No egos, no solo acts - just smart, curious people pushing toward something bigger, together. Belonging isn’t a perk here. It’s the baseline. Work from anywhere. Build with everyone. One Confluent. One team. whole new way of making data flow.
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