Confluent · 2 hours ago
Senior Software Engineer - Platform Infrastructure (Remote USA)
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$192K/yr - $226K/yr
6+ years expConfluent is a company that focuses on transforming how data moves and is utilized. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer II to architect and build core services for their cloud infrastructure, emphasizing security and reliability.
AnalyticsCloud Data ServicesEnterprise SoftwareOpen Source
Responsibilities
Architect, design, and develop platform services with a strong focus on scalability, security, and developer experience
Lead operational design for reliability: build comprehensive observability, monitoring, and incident response automation into security-critical services
Build automation and tooling to drive self-healing systems, proactive risk detection, failure recovery, and continuous resilience testing
Collaborate with compliance, governance, and risk teams to translate regulatory and policy requirements into scalable technical controls
Lead technical design reviews, security architecture reviews, and incident postmortems for platform-level incidents
Mentor engineers across multiple disciplines on both security and operational best practices
Own end-to-end delivery of services: from initial design and development through deployment, production hardening, and lifecycle maintenance
Qualification
Required
6+ years of experience in software engineering, SRE, or security engineering roles, with significant experience operating security platform services
Strong backend software development experience (Go, Java, Rust, Python)
Expertise with distributed systems, cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure), Kubernetes, service mesh, and container orchestration
Strong understanding of security domains: IAM, OAuth2, OIDC, PKI, secrets management, policy engines, audit pipelines, zero trust architecture
Experience building highly reliable, observable, and resilient production systems
Operational expertise: SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, on-call leadership, incident management
Strong collaboration skills to drive alignment across engineering, security, and compliance stakeholders
Excellent communication skills with ability to influence technical and business leaders
BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience
Preferred
Experience with SPIFFE/SPIRE, OPA/Gatekeeper, Envoy, Istio, and workload identity management
Exposure to security compliance frameworks (FedRAMP)
Experience leading cross-org security platform architecture initiatives
Company
Confluent
Confluent offers a streaming platform based on Apache Kafka that enables companies to easily access data as real-time streams.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$459.6MKey Investors
CoatueSequoia CapitalIndex Ventures
2025-12-08Acquired
2021-06-24IPO
2021-06-10Secondary Market
Leadership Team
Jun Rao
Co-founder
Chad Verbowski
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