Confluent hiring Software Engineer, Cloud Control Plane in Mountain View, CA, US

Software Engineer, Cloud Control Plane

Confluent

Mountain View, CA, US

Job Type: Full-Time
Function: Engineering Software
Post Date: 02/18/2021
Website: confluent.io
Company Address: 101 University Avenue Suite 111, Palo Alto, CA, 94301

About Confluent

Confluent, founded by the original creators of Apache Kafka®, pioneered the enterprise-ready event streaming platform. With Confluent, organizations benefit from the first event streaming platform built for the enterprise with the ease-of-use, scalability, security and flexibility required by the most discerning global companies to run their business in real time. Companies leading their respective industries have realized success with this new platform paradigm to transform their architectures to streaming from batch processing, spanning on-premises and multi-cloud environments. Backed by Benchmark, Index Ventures and Sequoia Capital, Confluent is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif. and London with offices globally.

Job Description

Dubbed an "open-source unicorn" by Forbes, Confluent is the fastest-growing enterprise subscription company our investors have ever seen. And how are we growing so fast? By pioneering a new technology category with an event streaming platform, which enables companies to leverage their data as a continually updating stream of events, not as static snapshots. This innovation has led Sequoia Capital, Benchmark, and Index Ventures to recently invest a combined $125 million in our Series D financing. Our product has been adopted by Fortune 100 customers across all industries, and we’re being led by the best in the space—our founders were the original creators of Apache Kafka®. We’re looking for talented and amazing team players who want to accelerate our growth, while doing some of the best work of their careers. Join us as we build the next transformative technology platform!

As a Software Engineer, Cloud Control Plane, you will be designing and implementing a distributed control plane to manage the life cycle of Confluent Platform using Container Orchestration Frameworks such as Kubernetes and Mesos. Control plane is responsible for unified cluster management of Confluent Platform across cloud providers and on-prem data centers including provisioning, auto scaling, monitoring and auto-remediation. We are looking for engineers with a strong desire to build planet-scale, extensible control plane with a strong emphasis on user experience.

Who You Are:

Smart, humble and empathetic
Have a strong sense of teamwork and put the team’s and company’s interests first
Driven and excited about the challenges of a fast-paced, innovative software startup environment

What We’re Looking For:

Strong software design and implementation skills in building infrastructure-frameworks
Deep expertise in building distributed systems
Experience with one or more of Go, C++, Java or Python required
Experience building and operating extensible, scalable resilient systems
Solid understanding of Container Orchestration framework (such as Kubernetes, Docker Swarm or Mesos)
Familiarity with using Cloud Infrastructure Providers such as AWS, GCP, and Azure
Solid understanding of basic systems operations (disk, network, operating systems, etc)

What Gives You An Edge:

Experience in building control planes in one or more of virtualization, software defined networking/storage
Experience building APIs, both RESTful and gRPC/Thrift based
Familiarity with Infra such as Networking, Storage and Security in data centers
Hands-on experience with Kubernetes operators, Helm or StatefulSets
Knowledge of Apache Kafka
Experience in App deployment and config management frameworks such as Ansible, Terraform, Chef, Puppet etc.