Staff Software Engineer I
ConfluentData Streaming company
INLead
Benchmark
Index Ventures
Sequoia Capital
Coatue
Altimeter Capital
Franklin Templeton Investments
Software Engineering
About the role
TL;DR
Lead technical direction for Confluent Platform evolution.
- •As a Staff Software Engineer I, you will set the technical direction and drive significant advancements within the Confluent Platform organization.
- •Key Responsibilities Technically lead the evolution of the Confluent Platform.
- •Partner with product management, engineering leadership, and cross-org stakeholders to define and execute the CP roadmap.
- •Act as a strong external technical voice for Confluent Platform.
- •Champion domain health, operational hygiene, and platform reliability.
- •Lead architecture and design of large, complex systems.
- •Requirements 10+ years of hands-on software development experience.
- •Proven ability to take ideas from concept to production in complex, high-scale systems.
- •Deep experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems.
- •Excellent grounding in distributed systems, concurrency, and multi-threaded programming.
- •Strong influence skills and ability to drive technical decisions across teams.
Required skills
Apache KafkaKubernetesCI/CDEngineering Management
Nice-to-have skills
Apache FlinkSparkDockerLinuxGitSQL
Tech stack
Apache KafkaApache FlinkSparkKubernetesCI/CDDockerLinuxGitSQL