Staff Software Engineer I – Confluent Platform

🕒 June 8

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Confluent

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2014

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

☁️ SaaS

💰 Secondary Market on 2021-06

Artificial Intelligence • SaaS • Cloud Computing

Confluent is a company that specializes in data streaming platforms which turn real-time data events into actionable outcomes. Their solutions enable the development of intelligent, real-time applications, empowering teams and systems to respond to data instantly. Confluent builds a new data category that impacts the real world by providing the infrastructure for real-time data streaming, which is recognized and partnered with major tech companies like Google Cloud and Microsoft. The company maintains a remote-first culture, hiring talent from over 25 countries, and values diversity and inclusivity in their workplace.

📋 Description

• Technically lead the evolution of the Confluent Platform, with deep ownership of USM, hybrid-first management, and platform-wide operational capabilities. • Partner closely with product management, engineering leadership, and cross-org stakeholders (including Confluent Cloud) to define and execute the CP roadmap. • Act as a strong external technical voice for Confluent Platform across the company. • Champion domain health, operational hygiene, and platform reliability; raise the bar through design and code reviews. • Lead architecture and design of large, complex systems spanning distributed systems, Kubernetes, security, and observability. • Mentor and grow senior engineers and technical leads, providing hands-on guidance and career mentorship. • Represent and strengthen engineering leadership in India, setting standards for execution, communication, and engineering excellence. • Build and evolve processes that enable teams to operate at scale without sacrificing quality or velocity.

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of hands-on software development experience, with a proven ability to anticipate future technical needs and execute toward them. • A strong track record of taking ideas from concept to production in complex, high-scale systems. • Willingness to roll up your sleeves—design, code, debug, and operate critical systems. • Deep experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems, including strong fundamentals in OS, networking, storage, and cloud infrastructure. • Excellent grounding in distributed systems, concurrency, and multi-threaded programming. • A proactive, self-starter mindset with strong problem-solving skills—identifying root causes and driving durable fixes. • Ability to balance short-term execution with long-term architectural integrity; ship incrementally and iterate with urgency. • Strong influence skills—able to drive technical decisions across teams and senior leadership through clear, data-driven communication. • Experience handling high-severity production issues, including on-call ownership, deep debugging, and mitigation under pressure. • BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

🏖️ Benefits

• 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. • We’re proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.