confluent - Senior Software Engineer II - KORA

• As a Senior Software Engineer II, you’ll work on the core coordination layer of a modern cloud data platform: a highly available, low-latency service that keeps large fleets of distributed workloads balanced, fault-tolerant, and predictable. This means tackling real distributed systems challenges: scaling coordination and metadata services to thousands of nodes, hardening them against failures, and making them observable and easy to operate. You will directly contribute to enhanced reliability and performance for all Confluent customers through the improvements you deliver. • Design and implement high‑scale, low‑latency features in distributed coordination cloud-native services. • Own complex projects end to end: refine ambiguous requirements into clear milestones, drive execution across components and services, and deliver production‑ready changes with appropriate test coverage and observability. • Lead reliability and operational improvements for core services, including health checks, incident reduction, resilience testing, rollout and migration strategies, dashboards and alerts. • Raise the technical bar through thoughtful design documents, code reviews and technical mentorship of other engineers. • Collaborate cross‑functionally with product, platform, security, and other engineering teams to define requirements, evaluate trade‑offs and deliver designs that balance reliability, cost, and customer impact. • Contribute to operational excellence by improving runbooks, debugging workflows, tooling, and automation around service health, incidents and rollouts. • WHAT GIVES YOU AN EDGE: • Experience with high‑throughput data infrastructure, streaming systems or large‑scale platform services. • Experience with migration projects, such as moving state from tightly coupled components to external services, multi‑phase rollouts or transitions from legacy to new architectures. • READY TO BUILD WHAT'S NEXT? LET’S GET IN MOTION. • COME AS YOU ARE • Belonging isn’t a perk here. It’s the baseline. We work across time zones and backgrounds, knowing the best ideas come from different perspectives. And we make space for everyone to lead, grow, and challenge what’s possible.