Confluent
Senior Software Engineer- Infrastructure
Remote Engineering role with clear candidate location fit.
PostedJun 3, 2026
Eligible countries1 accepted country
Seniority signalSenior
Work settingRemote
Accepted candidate locations
Canada
Role overview
Senior Software Engineer- Infrastructure
Requirements and responsibilities
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What You Will Do:
- Build the software underpinning the mission-critical Confluent Cloud storage engine. You will play a crucial role in designing, developing and operationalizing high performance, scalable, reliable and resilient systems.
- Independently drive execution of software projects to deliver complex projects in production with a focus on quality.
- Identify root causes, and get beyond treating symptoms - motivated to dig deep and solve hard problems
- Troubleshoot issues and improve operations for complex technical stack that spans all the 3 clouds.
- Have a strong sense of teamwork and be able to make decisions which benefit the team and company.
- Customer focused - making customers more successful by taking on their most challenging problems motivates you.
What You Will Bring:
- BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience
- 2+ years of relevant cloud infrastructure/cloud networking experience
- Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development
- Experience building and operating large-scale systems in the Cloud
- Solid understanding of basic systems operations (disk, network, operating systems, etc)
- A self starter with the ability to work effectively in teams
- Proficiency in Java, Scala, C/C++, Go or other statically typed languages
What Gives You an Edge:
- A strong background in distributed storage systems or databases
- Experience in the areas of resource management and QoS
- Experience/knowledge with public clouds (AWS, Azure or GCP)
- Interest in evangelism (giving talks at tech conferences, writing blog posts evangelizing Kafka)
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