Confluent Senior Software Engineer II, Secure Compute

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 Confluent builds cloud-native data infrastructure for real-time data streaming, including Confluent Cloud, Kafka, Apache Flink, and Connect.

What you will do

• Lead the design and implementation of complex backend services in a cloud-native, microservices-based environment.
• Make architecture and technical decisions balancing reliability, scalability, performance, and operability.
• Drive projects from requirements and design through implementation, rollout, and production operation.
• Improve reliability by defining SLOs and SLAs, strengthening observability, and participating in on-call support.
• Collaborate across teams on APIs, integration points, and data models, and drive platform and productivity improvements.
• Mentor engineers through code reviews, design reviews, and technical guidance.

Requirements

• 7+ years of industry experience designing, building, and supporting backend systems in production, including software engineering practices such as code reviews, quality focus, and documentation.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience; a master’s degree is preferred.
• Strong knowledge of Python runtime environments, including virtual environments, package management, and interpreter configurations.
• Strong programming and algorithmic skills, with proficiency in a major language such as Python, Go, C/C++, or Java.
• Strong experience running services in a public cloud such as AWS, GCP, or Azure, including containers, orchestration, and modern cloud-native technologies.
• Technical leadership experience driving projects, influencing architecture, and coordinating work across engineers or teams.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to explain complex ideas and drive decisions.
• Experience with observability and operational excellence, including metrics, logging, tracing, incident response, and postmortems.
• Ability to work without current or future visa sponsorship in the United States.

Nice to have

• Expertise in other language runtimes or virtual machines, such as JVM or WASM.
• Experience delivering large-scale, highly available, low-latency, high-quality systems.
• Deep hands-on expertise in large-scale systems engineering, distributed systems, and container sandboxing technologies.
• Experience handling critical systems on call.
• Master’s degree or PhD in computer science or a related field.

Culture & Benefits

• Regular daytime schedule with full-time employment and benefits.
• Healthcare coverage, including medical, prescription, dental, vision, and mental health benefits.
• Financial programs including 401(k), pension, stock purchase, life insurance, disability coverage, and potential performance-based incentives.
• Paid time off, 12 holidays, sick time, vacation, parental bonding leave, and paid care leave in accordance with hirify.global policy.
• AI-driven learning resources, certification opportunities, employee resource groups, and volunteer programs.