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

We are seeking an engineer to join our Developer Productivity Application Platform and Optimization team

In this role, you will contribute to our industry-leading developer platform vision encompassing the entire software supply chain, extensible service frameworks, resource lifecycle management, and onboarding experience

Your work and passion will directly influence the efficiency of our cloud and on-premise product releases by accelerating development for the entire engineering organization

You will collaborate with all engineering teams and other key stakeholders to build out our secure, multi-tenant platforms and services that enable the delivery of new business opportunities across Confluent Cloud and Platform, including Kafka, kSQL/Flink, Connect, and more

You will help drive end-to-end technical delivery from developer onboarding to our internal operations supporting our customers

You are not confined to the status quo and you leverage your expertise in Cloud-native, large-scale distributed systems to help evolve our platform to become industry-leading

What You Will Do

Deliver high impact to the business by designing and implementing solutions in local and CI build acceleration, developer platforms, toolchains, CI observability, supply chain security, productivity metrics, architectural direction, and major component refactoring across organizational boundaries

Automate service creation and evolution and enable developer self-service functionality as part of our journey to an Internal Developer Platform

Identify and solve inefficiencies in our services to improve engineering productivity while automating everything

Provide feedback into the overall architectural design, and delivery of architecture to determine when functions should be part of a common developer platform versus service unique

Partner across engineering and other key stakeholders to build and drive the roadmap for Developer Productivity

Identify and standardize best practices to champion a great engineering culture across the company

What You Will Bring

BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience

8+ years of relevant experience

Experience in coding and developing with any programming language (e g

, Go, Java, Python, etc,)

Experience with Build frameworks and toolchains (e g

Bazel, Gradle, Maven etc,)

Working knowledge of source control management systems such as Git

Familiarity with software development tools (e g Semaphore CI, Jenkins, etc,), and practices to streamline and optimize all aspects of the development lifecycle

Technical expertise running large-scale distributed systems in production environments using cloud native technologies (e g

, AWS/GCP/Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, etc,)

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

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