confluent - Senior Software Engineer II, Kora Compute

• Driven and excited about challenges of delivering complex projects in production with a focus on quality • Customer focused - making customers more successful by taking on their most challenging problems motivates you • Have a strong sense of teamwork and able to make decisions which benefit the team and company • Identify root causes, and get beyond treating symptoms - motivated to dig deep and solve hard problems • BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience • 4+ 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: • In-depth familiarity with the JVM • 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) • Experience working on databases or data storage • 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.