Confluent · 1 week ago
Staff Software Engineer - Flink Control Plane
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff
$236K/yr - $277K/yr
10+ years expConfluent is a company focused on revolutionizing how data moves and is utilized. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to develop control plane services for the Flink product, ensuring high reliability and efficiency in stream processing solutions.
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Responsibilities
Developing the control plane services that orchestrate Flink job lifecycles (submission, scaling, recovery). Building Kubernetes operators and orchestrators for serverless resource management. Designing APIs for job management, multi-tenancy, and isolation
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
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
Mentoring: You will mentor other engineers with less experience in Control plane architecture to get started in the community and more junior developers to get into the area of serverless Apache Flink
Qualification
Required
10+ years of relevant software development experience
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
Strong problem-solving skills, capable of translating complex requirements into effective solutions
Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to collaborate across teams
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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