Senior Software Engineer Ii - Confluent

Your Role and Responsibilities:

About the Product & Team

Kafka Connect is the foundational streaming integration framework for Apache Kafka. It enables reliable, scalable data movement between Kafka and a broad ecosystem of databases, cloud services, and storage systems.

Designed for mission-critical production environments, Kafka Connect provides a highly configurable, distributed, and fault-tolerant architecture that supports high-volume data pipelines across hybrid and cloud-native deployments.

As a strategic component of the Confluent Cloud platform, our team develops the extensible engine that transforms and routes data streams at scale, powering the infrastructure our customers depend on for their most critical data workflows.

What You’‘ll Do

• Design, build, and operationalize high-performance, scalable, and resilient distributed systems for the Kafka Connect platform.
• Independently own the end-to-end execution of complex technical projects, ensuring high-quality delivery in production environments.
• Solve challenging problems in the stream processing space by leveraging cloud and on-premises infrastructure to improve the performance, scalability, and elasticity of Kafka Connect connectors.
• Engage with the open-source community, providing technical guidance and thought leadership.
• Promote a culture of engineering excellence through clear communication, high-quality execution, and effective collaboration.

Required Education:

Bachelor’’s Degree

Preferred education

Master’’s Degree

Required Technical and Professional Expertise:

Who You Are

• An empathetic and collaborative team player.
• A self-starter who thrives in a fast-paced software development environment.

• Someone with a strong sense of ownership and commitment to team and company success.

• 5 to 10 years of experience in backend software engineering.
• Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development.
• Experience building and operating large-scale production services in public cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Solid understanding of relational and/or non-relational databases.
• Strong knowledge of systems operations, including networking, operating systems, and infrastructure.
• Proficiency in Java, Go, or C/C++, with experience using Kubernetes and Terraform.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across teams.
• Bachelor’’s degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred Technical and Professional Experience:

• Experience contributing to open-source projects.
• Hands-on experience developing with or operating Apache Kafka.
• Familiarity with large-scale data streaming architectures and distributed data systems.

**Years of Experience:**5 - 10