Senior Software Engineer - Streaming AI (Remote - Ontario / British Columbia)

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Responsibilities

- Build foundational software to improve reliability, scalability, and efficiency across cloud environments.
- Collaborate with teams across Confluent to optimize and enhance infrastructure for real-time data streaming use cases.

ABOUT THE TEAM: We're a small, focused engineering team building the AI capabilities of Confluent Cloud.
Our job is to make it possible to run machine learning and AI agents directly on real-time data — without customers having to stitch together a separate stack to do it.
ABOUT THE ROLE: As a Software Engineer on the AI team, you will take ownership of the infrastructure that enables our "in-place, at-scale" AI value proposition.
You aren't just building a feature; you are architecting the systems that allow customers to run complex inference and AI agents directly on streaming data, eliminating the need to move data to external stacks.
You will tackle deep infrastructure challenges across networking, compute, and security to ensure our AI capabilities are as reliable as the core data plane itself.
If you are passionate about building the foundational systems that power the next generation of AI in the cloud, this is the place to do it.
- Troubleshoot and improve system reliability, observability, and performance across multiple cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP).
experience designing, building, and supporting backend systems in production. - Strong fundamentals in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and networking. -

We’re rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it.
Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real-time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them.
It takes a certain kind of person to join this team.
Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other.
Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together. One Confluent. One Team.
We own our products end to end, from the user-facing API down to the serving layer that runs inference in production, and we work closely with the broader platform teams whose systems we build on top of.
It's a high-ownership, high-autonomy environment: small enough that what you build ships and matters, broad enough that the problems are genuinely hard.
This is a high-impact role where your work on scalable, cost-efficient serving layers directly drives Confluent's growth and redefines the possibilities of real-time data.
We are looking for engineers who thrive on the technical complexity of large-scale distributed systems.
WHAT YOU WILL DO: - Design, develop, and operate large-scale, high-performance infrastructure that powers Confluent Cloud.