Principal Engineer I

August 21

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Confluent

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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.

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2014

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

☁️ SaaS

💰 Secondary Market on 2021-06

📋 Description

• Confluent's data streaming platform enables near real-time data movement and insights. • SPA team builds elastic, reliable, durable, cost-effective stream processing with Apache Flink. • Responsible for defining and executing the vision for scheduling, deployment, autoscaling, and state management. • Provide technical leadership and drive high standards for design, development, and operations of distributed systems. • Own complex cross-functional projects from inception to production with strong focus on reliability and impact. • Lead and contribute to open-source software, especially Apache Flink. • Mentor junior and mid-level engineers to foster technical excellence.

🎯 Requirements

• BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience, with 12+ years of relevant experience in stream processing and distributed systems. • Demonstrated strong fundamentals and extensive experience in architecture, design, and development of large-scale distributed systems. • Expert-level understanding of cloud engineering principles, including experience building and operating mission-critical systems across multiple public cloud environments. • A self-starter with proven ability to lead and influence technical direction within and across teams, driving complex initiatives to successful completion. • Proficiency in Go, Java, or Scala, or Rust with a strong ability to contribute to and lead development in these languages. • Specialized distributed systems knowledge: background in distributed storage systems, databases, or high-throughput messaging systems. • Cloud & Kubernetes expertise: extensive experience with public clouds and hands-on experience designing and operating Kubernetes operators for distributed applications. • Significant Open Source leadership: recognized contributions and leadership in open-source projects, particularly in the stream processing domain (Apache Flink). • Experience with state management: deep expertise in design, implementation, and optimization of large-scale, fault-tolerant state management systems. • Experience with implementing Key Value stores or LSM-tree based systems: expertise in internals of modern K/V stores or storage engines like SlateDB or RocksDB.

🏖️ Benefits

• Equal opportunity workplace and inclusive hiring practices • Belonging is the baseline; we support diverse perspectives and growth • Global collaboration across time zones