Senior Software Engineer - Confluent Cloud Platform

Introduction

At IBM Software, we transform client challenges into solutions, building the world’s leading AI‑powered, cloud‑native products that shape the future of business and society. Our legacy of innovation creates endless opportunities for IBMers to learn, grow, and make an impact on a global scale. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. We put information in motion, streaming in near real time so organizations can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them.

Your role and responsibilities

• Design, implement and maintain Golang infrastructure services (typically implemented as Kubernetes operators) to deliver the Confluent cloud foundations to the wider engineering organization
• Terraform, Datadog, Prometheus and a strong command of Linux, public cloud and networking should come as standard - though Golang software engineering will be your primary focus
• As a Confluent Cloud Infrastructure Software Engineer, you will be working alongside the rest of the Confluent engineers to build our PaaS product
• You, and the rest of the team, will be responsible for the availability, performance, monitoring, emergency response, and capacity planning of the Confluent cloud
• If you love the hum of big data systems covering 10,000's of instances, thinking about how to make them run as smoothly and securely as possible, and want to have a big influence on the architecture plus operational design points of this new product, then you will fit right in

Required education

None

Preferred education

None

Required technical and professional expertise

• BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience
• Relevant cloud infrastructure/cloud networking experience
• Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development
• Experience building and operating large‑scale systems
• Solid understanding of basic systems operations (disk, network, operating systems, etc)
• A self‑starter with the ability to work effectively in teams
• Proficiency in Go, Python, C++, or other statically typed languages
• Experience/knowledge with public clouds (AWS, Azure or GCP)

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Experience with Golang is advantageous
• Experience using Apache Kafka is a big plus

About IBM

IBM is proud to be an equal‑opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.