Senior Software Engineer

United Kingdom

1/9/2025

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 every day – 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

As a Software Engineer, Cloud Control Plane, you will be designing and implementing a distributed control plane used by product teams to manage the lifecycle of their Confluent Cloud offerings.

We are a tightly knit group with a fairly mature Agile process running a very mild version of the XP playbook - we care a lot about clear communication, a good degree of task breakdown and a whole lot of pairing with other engineers. We pride ourselves in how we get stuff done - our process is light on red tape and heavy on collaboration - we will give you the authority and autonomy to make decisions.

What You Will Do

• Delve deep into the Kubernetes framework - we have K8S contributors working with us internally
• Provision infrastructure using a mixture of Terraform and internal tooling and deploy your changes using Helm
• Thrive working iteratively in a fast-paced Scrum environment where you'll use our product and be very much DevOps driven
• You'll be expected to not only ship code but also operate and support it before and after release - that includes having a deep understanding of what your code will run on
  
  

What You Will Bring

• Strong software design and implementation skills in building infrastructure frameworks
• Deep expertise in building distributed systems
• Experience with one or more of these programming languages - Go, C++, Java, or Python
• Experience in a full project lifecycle starting from zero lines of code to operating, observing and supporting a product as part of an on-call rota
• Solid understanding of Kubernetes and Docker
  
  

What Gives You An Edge

• Experience in building control planes (virtualization, software-defined networking/storage)
• Experience building APIs - both RESTful and gRPC-based
• Familiarity with infra such as networking, storage, and security in data centres
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes operators, Helm, or StatefulSets
• Open source contributions to Kubernetes sigs or adjacent projects
• Experience with PBT, TDD, and pair programming
  
  

Come As You Are

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