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Company

Confluent · 1 day ago

Staff Software Engineer II

United States

Full-time

Remote

Entry, Mid, Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$236K/yr - $253K/yr

2+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Develop strategies to optimize kafka performance for scalability, resilience, and high availability aligned with organizational goals.

Conduct analysis and tuning of our confluent Kafka offerings to meet the performance requirements under various loads.

Build tools to measure key performance metrics, providing insights into efficiency and resource utilization.

Establish monitoring systems for metrics, proactively identifying and resolving performance issues in production.

Lead and mentor performance engineers, offering guidance and support to ensure platform efficiency across deployments.

Qualification

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Cloud InfrastructureDistributed SystemsPerformance TuningJavaScalaC/C++GoKafkaCloud EnvironmentsPerformance AnalysisJVMResource ManagementAWSAzureGCPTechnical EvangelismDatabasesData Storage

Required

BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience

2+ years of relevant cloud infrastructure/cloud networking experience

Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development

Experience building and operating large-scale systems in the Cloud

Solid understanding of basic systems operations (disk, network, operating systems, etc)

A self starter with the ability to work effectively in teams

Proficiency in Java, Scala, C/C++, Go or other statically typed languages

Preferred

Strong understanding of performance analysis methodologies, tools, and metrics

Experience with distributed systems, cloud environments, and performance analysis

Knowledge of Kafka would be highly beneficial

In-depth familiarity with the JVM or any other memory management systems

A strong background in distributed storage systems or databases

Experience in the areas of resource management and QoS

Experience/knowledge with public clouds (AWS, Azure or GCP)

Interest in evangelism (giving talks at tech conferences, writing blog posts evangelizing Kafka)

Experience working on databases or data storage

Benefits

Annual bonus

Competitive equity package

Wide range of employee benefits

Company

Confluent

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Confluent offers a streaming platform based on Apache Kafka that enables companies to easily access data as real-time streams.

Founded in 2014

Mountain View, California, USA

1001-5000 employees

https://confluent.io

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