Principal Engineer I – Cloud Observability

🕒 April 27

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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

• You will work with a team of engineers and architects to help evolve Confluent Observability features. • Work closely with product management, engineering leadership, and other key stakeholders across various teams in Confluent to build and drive the overall roadmap. • Influence the overall domain health and operational hygiene for Confluent Observability. • Review designs and code and improve our technical standards. • Lead the technology charter for our observability features in Confluent Cloud and in hybrid scenarios with Confluent Platform. • Mentor a team of high-performing engineers and leads, helping them to continue in growing their skill set through hands-on experience and mentorship. • Provide timely and productive feedback, encourage a growth mindset, and advise team members in setting and working toward personal development goals. • Nurture a culture of excellence on the team through a focus on hiring, communication, execution, and work quality. • Create and manage processes that enable the team to do its best work.

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum of 15+ years of hands-on software development experience with the ability to anticipate future technical needs for the product and craft plans to realize them. • Taking ideas to production is something we look for. • Ready to roll up your sleeves - code, debug, design - do whatever it takes to ship the product to production. • Experience building and operating large-scale systems. Solid understanding of basic systems operations (disk, network, operating systems, etc). Experience running production services in the cloud. • Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development. Solid fundamentals in concurrent and multi-threading programming. • A self starter with the ability to work effectively in teams. Proactively identifying the symptoms of technical issues and reason about their causes is needed. This will be followed by fixing the root causes. • Timely shipping of deliverables; being able to trade-off short term technical decisions with the long term. Move fast, build in increments, and iterate. A sense of urgency, a mindset towards achieving results, and excellent prioritization skills. • Ability to influence the team, peers and upper management in technology decisions using effective communication and collaborative techniques. • Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent experience. Understanding of various technologies, programming paradigms and frameworks is needed. Ability to be pragmatic and trade off their usage in production is essential. • Ability to take on intense customer production issues on-call; debugging and mitigating them will be needed. This requires patient log and metrics analysis with solid reasoning to nail the issue.

🏖️ 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. • We make space for everyone to lead, grow, and challenge what’s possible.