Confluent Staff Software Engineer II - Secure Compute

Location: Remote within the United States; some travel may be required based on business demand.

Salary: $161,000–$299,000 per year.

Company

hirify.global, part of IBM Software, develops cloud-native data streaming and AI-powered software for digital transformation.

What you will do

• Define the technical direction and architecture for the Secure Compute platform, including runtime and security for trusted and untrusted workloads.
• Design and implement Go-based platform APIs, Kubernetes controllers, and operators for workload lifecycle, autoscaling, placement, and isolation.
• Build secure multi-tenant compute infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and GCP, integrating it with core data and application services.
• Deliver workload scheduling, disruption handling, networking, rollout, rollback, and fleet-level resource-management capabilities.
• Lead design reviews, align architecture across teams, and mentor engineers through design guidance, code reviews, and pair programming.
• Own availability, reliability, SLOs, performance, on-call response, incident management, observability, and disaster recovery for key services.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s degree preferred.
• 10+ years of experience delivering scalable backend or infrastructure software in production.
• Experience leading the delivery of large-scale, highly available, low-latency distributed systems.
• Deep Kubernetes expertise, including controller development, operator patterns, and preferably multi-region or multi-cluster architectures.
• Strong Go proficiency and experience building production-grade services and control planes.
• Experience with multi-tenant architectures and security or isolation patterns, including namespaces, network policies, sandboxing, secrets management, and identity management.
• Hands-on experience with secure container runtimes and low-level Linux internals, including Kata Containers, Cloud Hypervisor, cgroups, namespaces, or seccomp.
• Experience troubleshooting and optimizing containerized and virtualized workloads; familiarity with gRPC, Protobuf, and internal platform APIs.
• Experience with observability and operational practices, including metrics, logging, tracing, alerting, SLOs, rollout strategies, incident response, and public-cloud integrations across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
• Demonstrated technical leadership and mentorship, including cross-team alignment on architecture, strategy, and execution.

Nice to have

• Strong collaboration with Product, SRE/Operations, Security, and Engineering teams.
• A smart, humble, empathetic, accountable, and team-oriented approach.
• Passion for foundational cloud infrastructure and enthusiasm for a fast-paced, innovative environment.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work within the United States with general daytime hours; some business travel may be required.
• Healthcare, dental, vision, mental-health, life-insurance, disability, and financial benefits, including 401(k), pension, and employee stock purchase programs.
• Paid time off including holidays, sick time, vacation, parental bonding leave, and other paid-care leave programs.
• AI-driven learning resources, training, professional certifications, employee resource groups, volunteer opportunities, and product discounts.
• Visa sponsorship is not available now or in the future; applicants must be able to work without current or future visa sponsorship.