Senior Software Engineer II – Platform Infrastructure

October 13

🍂 Massachusetts – Remote

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🤠 Texas – Remote

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💵 $192.2k - $225.8k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🏗️ Platform Engineer

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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

• Architect, design, and develop platform services with a strong focus on scalability, security, and developer experience. • Lead operational design for reliability: build comprehensive observability, monitoring, and incident response automation into security-critical services. • Build automation and tooling to drive self-healing systems, proactive risk detection, failure recovery, and continuous resilience testing. • Collaborate with compliance, governance, and risk teams to translate regulatory and policy requirements into scalable technical controls. • Lead technical design reviews, security architecture reviews, and incident postmortems for platform-level incidents. • Mentor engineers across multiple disciplines on both security and operational best practices. • Own end-to-end delivery of services: from initial design and development through deployment, production hardening, and lifecycle maintenance.

🎯 Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in software engineering, SRE, or security engineering roles, with significant experience operating security platform services. • Strong backend software development experience (Go, Java, Rust, Python). • Expertise with distributed systems, cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure), Kubernetes, service mesh, and container orchestration. • Strong understanding of security domains: IAM, OAuth2, OIDC, PKI, secrets management, policy engines, audit pipelines, zero trust architecture. • Experience building highly reliable, observable, and resilient production systems. • Operational expertise: SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, on-call leadership, incident management. • Strong collaboration skills to drive alignment across engineering, security, and compliance stakeholders. • Excellent communication skills with ability to influence technical and business leaders. • BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience.

🏖️ Benefits

• Offers Equity