Senior Solutions Architect

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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

• Helping a customer determine his/her platform and/or application strategy for moving to a more real-time, event-based business. Such engagements often involve remote preparation; presenting an onsite or remote workshop for the customer’s architects, developers, and operations teams; investigating (with Engineering and other coworkers) solutions to difficult challenges; and writing a recommendations summary doc. • Providing feedback to the Confluent Product and Engineering groups • Building tooling for another team or the wider company to help us push our technical boundaries and improve our ability to deliver consistently with high quality • Testing performance and functionality of new components developed by Engineering • Writing or editing documentation and knowledge base articles, including reference architecture materials and design patterns based on customer experiencesHoning your skills, building applications, or trying out new product features • Participating in community and industry events

🎯 Requirements

• 6+ years of Professional Services Experience/Integration/Delivery experience • Deep experience designing, building, and operating in-production Big Data, stream processing, and/or enterprise data integration solutions, ideally using Apache Kafka • Demonstrated experience successfully managing multiple B2B infrastructure software development projects, including driving expansion, customer satisfaction, feature adoption, and retention • Experience operating Linux (configure, tune, and troubleshoot both RedHat and Debian-based distributions) • Experience using cloud providers (Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure) for running high-throughput systems • Experience with distributed systems (Kafka, Hadoop, Cassandra, etc.) • Proficiency in Java or Python • Excellent communication skills, with an ability to clearly and concisely explain tricky issues and complex solutions • Ability to quickly learn new technologies • Ability and willingness to travel to meet with customers.

🏖️ 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. Employment decisions are based on job-related criteria, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other classification protected by law.