Confluent Software Engineer

Contribute to the design, development, and operation of scalable, resilient data infrastructure supporting observability, logging, alerting, and metrics for Confluent Cloud Collaborate with experienced engineers to build and maintain core components of the Cloud Manageability platform, such as Health+, Metrics API, and Alert Platforms Write clean, efficient, and well-tested code while gaining hands-on experience with large-scale distributed systems and cloud-native technologies Participate in code reviews, technical discussions, and sprint planning to continuously improve the quality and performance of our systems Take ownership of small projects and deliver features that directly impact the reliability and usability of Confluent Cloud for internal and external users This team's charter includes building and scaling our cloud-scale, data infrastructure which powers customer-facing metrics and events, and evangelizing platform architecture best practices This infrastructure enables critical products like Health+, Metrics API, and use cases like billing, deep insights, and product visibility We are a team passionate about the observability space of any large-scale distributed infrastructures In Confluent, we build, operate, and improve systems for logging, notifications & alerts, events detection and routing, and metrics You could work on the following teams in Cloud Manageability: Health+ Cloud Notifications Metrics API and Telemetry Fleet Management Capacity and Placement Events DevEx Control plane DevEx Alert Platform Notifications Platform Service Ops Intelligence Orchestrator - Cluster Lifecycle Mgmt Orchestrator - Core Infra Events Infrastructure Logging Platform Druid Data Platform Cloud Resiliency and Tooling FedRAMP

Confluent is a commercial company built on top of the open-source Apache Kafka project. Confluent and Kafka have developed a streaming data technology that processes massive amounts of information in real-time. The streaming database technology was developed at LinkedIn as a way of moving massive amounts of messages. The company decided to open-source that tech in 2011, and Confluent launched as the commercial arm in 2014. While the base open-source component remains available for free download, it doesn't include the additional tooling the company has built to make it easier for enterprises to use Kafka. Confluent's value add is in those additional tools, including a cloud version of the product and a marketplace for sharing extensions to the platform. Confluent expanded strategic partnerships with Microsoft and acquired Immerok, and in 2023 expanded its cloud platform. 2024 saw further product expansions with the launch of the Confluent Migration Accelerator, all exemplifying how the company is living up to its name by rocket-boosting the benefits of Apache Kafka integration for companies.