Staff Software Engineer – Apache Kafka

🕒 March 28

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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

• Collaborate with the Apache Kafka community via KIPs, code contributions, reviews, and technical discussions; represent Confluent’s interests while keeping the broader ecosystem in mind. • Drive projects that have high complexity requiring technical acumen, a high level of judgement and able to deal with ambiguity. • Be a force multiplier and show strong ability to mentor and grow the team with guidance on strong design principles and software architecture. • Insist on high standards for the quality of software the team is developing. • Communicate with product management and engineering leaders on the roadmap, understand the specs and the product interfaces. • Drive operational excellence on reliability improvements, operational events and supportability. • Demonstrate strong verbal and written communication skills to influence teams/peers beyond immediate span of control.

🎯 Requirements

• 4+ years driving staff-level or equivalent technical initiatives across multiple teams or components. • Demonstrated ability to lead through ambiguity, set direction, and align multiple teams around complex technical plans. • Track record of mentoring senior engineers and enabling others to deliver on high-risk, high-impact projects. • Clear, concise technical communication, both written (design docs, KIPs) and verbal (reviews, cross-team forums). • Prior experience as a committer/PMC or core maintainer on Apache Kafka or a similar project.

🏖️ Benefits

• Offers Equity