Software Engineer (Confluent Cloud Platform)

Location: Remote, Hursley, Hampshire, United Kingdom. Some travel may be required based on business demand; on-call participation is required.

Company

hirify.global Software develops AI-powered, cloud-native and hybrid-cloud products for business, data, security, automation and digital transformation.

What you will do

• Design and implement a distributed control plane for managing the lifecycle of Confluent Cloud offerings.
• Work deeply with the Kubernetes framework and related cloud infrastructure.
• Provision infrastructure with Terraform and internal tooling, and deploy changes with Helm.
• Develop and ship software iteratively in a Scrum and DevOps-driven environment.
• Operate, observe, support and improve software before and after release, including participation in an on-call rota.
• Collaborate through task breakdown, pairing and autonomous technical decision-making.

Requirements

• Strong software design and implementation skills for building infrastructure frameworks.
• Deep expertise in building distributed systems.
• Experience with one or more of Go, C++, Java or Python.
• Experience across a full project lifecycle, from zero lines of code through operating, observing and supporting a product on an on-call rota.
• Solid understanding of Kubernetes and Docker.

Nice to have

• Experience building control planes for virtualization, software-defined networking or software-defined storage.
• Experience building RESTful and gRPC-based APIs.
• Familiarity with networking, storage and security infrastructure in data centres.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes operators, Helm or StatefulSets.
• Open-source contributions to Kubernetes SIGs or adjacent projects.
• Experience with PBT, TDD and pair programming.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work arrangement with some travel potentially required by business demand.
• Regular on-call responsibilities are part of the role.
• Collaborative Agile process with pairing, clear communication, lightweight administration and technical autonomy.
• hirify.global provides opportunities for continuous learning, career development, experimentation and feedback.
• Regular employment position within hirify.global Software Engineering.