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Original Job Post

Confluent · 4 days ago

Principal Engineer I, Compute

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

$209K/yr - $230K/yr

10+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Be part of driving the overall technical charter for the new Compute Platform -- including, but not limited to cloud infrastructure, big data systems, and security

Work closely with product management and engineering management to build and drive the overall roadmap for Confluent’s Compute Platform to enable new business opportunities

Deliver high impact to the business by driving important technical initiatives in areas comprising (but not limited to) security, reliability, multi-tenancy, architectural direction, and major component refactoring across organizational boundaries

Be a strong technical leader and representative for engineering across the Compute organization

Lead the team and the product on aspects of product definition, architectural design, and delivery

Qualification

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Scalable softwareLarge-scale system deliveryDistributed systems engineeringKubernetesLanguage runtimesContainerCloud NativeTechnical leadership

Required

10+ years of experience in delivering scalable software solutions

Proven track record of leading the delivery of large-scale, highly available, low latency, high-quality systems

Deep hands-on technical expertise in hyper-scale distributed systems engineering

Expertise in multi-cluster / multi-tenant Kubernetes a big plus

Expertise in Language Runtimes / VMs (JVM, WASM, CPython, etc.) a big plus

Expertise in Container & Virtualization/Hypervisor technologies (firecracker/gVisor/ cloud-hypervisor/kata-containers, etc.)

Experience in Cloud Native technologies including networking & security

Experience in driving operational excellence for large, production services

Track record of providing technical leadership and mentorship

Track record of working collaboratively across teams and roles, including but not limited to product management, UX, and other engineering teams and leaders

Company

Confluent

Glassdoor

3.8

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

1,001-5,000 employees

https://confluent.io/

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