Confluent

Staff Software Engineer

Remote Engineering role with clear candidate location fit.

PostedJun 17, 2026

Eligible countries1 accepted country

Seniority signalLead

Work settingRemote

Accepted candidate locations

Canada

Role overview

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Design and build the backend services (primarily Go, Java, and Python) that run AI and model inference on real-time data.
Own features end to end — drafting the design, aligning stakeholders inside and outside the team, and driving the decision to a conclusion.
Make the technical calls on systems that span teams: model lifecycle, inference routing, and agent execution.
Own the quality of what you ship — code, test coverage, documentation, operability, and rollout safety. This is production infrastructure serving live inference, so reliability isn't an afterthought.
Make the engineers around you better through code review, design feedback, and being someone the team trusts with ambiguous, cross-cutting work.
Participate in on-call for the services your team owns, and help keep the team's processes and rituals healthy.

10+ years of significant experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems or cloud-native backend infrastructure in production.
Strong working knowledge of Kubernetes and distributed-systems patterns (control loops, API servers, high-scale control planes), plus the fundamentals — containerization, networking, resource isolation.
Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, or Python, and the willingness to work across all three.
A track record of leading cross-team technical work: turning ambiguous requirements into designs others can rally behind.
Excellent written and verbal communication — you can write a design doc that aligns people who don't report to you.