Staff Software Engineer

United StatesRemote

Responsibilities

- Following a holistic development approach you will be responsible for the code quality, test coverage, documentation and maintainability of the components you and your team work on.

Building Kubernetes operators and orchestrators for serverless resource management.
experience in Control plane architecture to get started in the community and more junior developers to get into the area of serverless Apache Flink.
WHAT YOU WILL BRING: - 10+ years of relevant software development experience. - Technical Expertise: Deep knowledge of distributed systems orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes, control loops).
Experience building high-scale control planes, API servers, or cloud-native infrastructure.
Knowledge of containerization, networking, and resource isolation. - Problem Solving: Strong problem-solving skills, capable of translating complex

With a vision centered on innovation and excellence, this team is critical to advancing Confluent's Data in Motion initiative and is committed to supplying the industry with solutions that cater to evolving stream processing demands.

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.
ABOUT THE ROLE: The Flink Platform team is at the forefront of building a robust control plane for the Flink product, leveraging advanced database storage to ensure high reliability and efficiency.
WHAT YOU WILL DO: - Developing the control plane services that orchestrate Flink job lifecycles (submission, scaling, recovery).
Designing APIs for job management, multi-tenancy, and isolation.
- Designing Components: You will not only implement aspects of Flink Control Plane but also draft designs, discuss them and curate and moderate a decision with involved stakeholders.
- Team: As part of the team you will help to follow and maintain processes, by being an active part of the team, leading meetings and taking initiatives where feasible and participating in on-call rotations.