Confluent Senior Software Engineer II - Cloud Compute Platform

Location: Remote within the United States; listed locations include Poughkeepsie, Lowell, Rochester, Tucson, Research Triangle Park, Armonk, Boston, Bellevue, Atlanta, San Jose, Dallas, Austin, San Francisco, and Seattle. Some travel may be required based on business demand.

Salary: $131,000–$245,000 per year.

Company

hirify.global Software develops AI-powered, cloud-native products and hybrid-cloud solutions; the role supports Confluent's data-in-motion infrastructure platform.

What you will do

• Build and evolve the multi-tenant cloud-native compute platform and multi-cluster workload orchestration control plane.
• Design and implement platform APIs and Kubernetes operators in Go for workload management.
• Deliver workload scheduling, disruption management, network isolation, rolling updates, and cross-cluster resource management.
• Integrate the compute platform with broader cloud services and develop security isolation and secure execution capabilities.
• Lead technical design reviews, architectural decisions, and end-to-end delivery across organizational boundaries.
• Own availability, reliability, monitoring, emergency response, and disaster recovery for global compute infrastructure; mentor engineers.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required; master's degree preferred.
• 5+ years of experience delivering scalable software solutions.
• Experience leading delivery of large-scale, highly available, low-latency systems.
• Deep expertise in Kubernetes, including controller development, operator patterns, and multi-cluster architectures.
• Strong proficiency in Go and experience building production-grade distributed systems.
• Experience with multi-tenant platform architectures and security isolation patterns.
• Collaborative experience across product management, SRE, and engineering teams.
• Must be able to work without current or future visa sponsorship.

Nice to have

• Experience with observability tools and operational excellence practices.
• Experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, multi-cloud environments, and cloud-provider integrations.
• Technical leadership and mentorship experience.
• Familiarity with gRPC, Protobuf, and API design for internal platform services.
• Smart, humble, empathetic, and team-oriented approach in a fast-paced software environment.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work arrangement with daytime general shift; some business travel may be required.
• Healthcare, dental, vision, mental health, life insurance, disability coverage, and financial programs including 401(k) and pension benefits.
• Paid time off, 12 holidays, sick time, vacation, parental bonding leave, and other paid care leave according to policy and applicable law.
• AI-driven learning resources, training, educational support, and professional certifications.
• Inclusive employee resource groups, volunteer opportunities, and retail, service, and experience discounts.