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:

In this role, you will build accurate, reliable, scalable, and functionally rich systems in the cloud to support usage-based billing and pricing in the cloud that powers Confluentâs revenue across all products and global markets. You will get an opportunity to work on business-critical flows from ideation to completion by closely collaborating with Product Managers, different engineering and business teams.

If You Are:

• Smart, humble, and empathetic

• Have a strong sense of teamwork and put teamâs and company's interests first

• Driven and excited about the challenges of a fast-paced, innovative software startup environment

• A hands-on engineer who enjoys working with loosely coupled distributed systems

• Self-driven and highly motivated to deliver a high-quality solution with accuracy

• Able to work in an agile environment and adapt to changing business requirements

• Believe in test-driven development

• Excited about learning and adapting to emerging new technologies

• Enjoy and take pride in working on projects to successful completion involving different technologies and systems

• Have a high bar when working with production systems

What You Will Do:

• At least 8 years of relevant experience

• Experience in architecting, designing, and developing highly scalable and performant backend services

• Proficiency in a major programming language e.g.Go,Java, C / C++, etc.

• Experience of working on Kubernetes, Public Clouds - AWS, GCP, & Azure

• Familiarity with Kafka, Streaming, SaaS platform development

• Deep knowledge of designing distributed systems in the Cloud

• Experience in running production services in Public Clouds, with a drive towards quality, accuracy, and operational excellence

• Strong problem-solving and analytical/critical thinking skills with attention to details

• A strategic engineer who constantly thinks of operational improvements of the service to meet availability and performance SLA

• Comfortable with troubleshooting technical issues across services and multi-level technical stacks that includes microservices, containers, and virtualization

• Bachelors or Master's degree in Computer Science, like discipline, or commensurate work experience

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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