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Principal Engineer I - Cloud Observability

India · Job Posted May 04, 2026
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Job Description

We’re not just building better tech. We’re rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real-time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them. It takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together. One Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.

Job Responsibility

  • You will work with a team of engineers and architects to help evolve Confluent Observability features
  • Work closely with product management, engineering leadership, and other key stakeholders across various teams in Confluent to build and drive the overall roadmap
  • Need you to be a strong tech voice outside Confluent Observability within Confluent
  • Influence the overall domain health and operational hygiene for Confluent Observability
  • We need a tech champion for the observability capabilities we provide to our customers
  • You are expected to review designs and code and improve our technical standards
  • We are looking at you to lead the technology charter for our observability features in Confluent Cloud and in hybrid scenarios with Confluent Platform
  • Mentor a team of high-performing engineers and leads, helping them to continue in growing their skill set through hands-on experience and mentorship
  • Be a strong technical leader and representative for engineering teams in India
  • Provide timely and productive feedback, encourage a growth mindset, and advise team members in setting and working toward personal development goals
  • Nurture a culture of excellence on the team through a focus on hiring, communication, execution, and work quality
  • Create and manage processes that enable the team to do its best work

Requirements

  • Minimum of 15+ years of hands-on software development experience with the ability to anticipate future technical needs for the product and craft plans to realize them
  • Taking ideas to production is something we look for
  • Ready to roll up your sleeves - code, debug, design - do whatever it takes to ship the product to production
  • Experience building and operating large-scale systems. Solid understanding of basic systems operations (disk, network, operating systems, etc). Experience running production services in the cloud
  • Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development. Solid fundamentals in concurrent and multi-threading programming
  • A self starter with the ability to work effectively in teams. Proactively identifying the symptoms of technical issues and reason about their causes is needed. This will be followed by fixing the root causes
  • Timely shipping of deliverables
  • being able to trade-off short term technical decisions with the long term. Move fast, build in increments, and iterate. A sense of urgency, a mindset towards achieving results, and excellent prioritization skills
  • Ability to influence the team, peers and upper management in technology decisions using effective communication and collaborative techniques
  • Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent experience. Understanding of various technologies, programming paradigms and frameworks is needed. Ability to be pragmatic and trade off their usage in production is essential
  • Ability to take on intense customer production issues on-call
  • debugging and mitigating them will be needed. This requires patient log and metrics analysis with solid reasoning to nail the issue

Nice to have

  • Experience in designing and developing effective solutions for systems observability problems, including effective enablement of metrics, logging, events, or traces capabilities
  • Experience using and operating Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, Apache Druid, and OpenSearch is a big plus
  • Interest in evangelism (giving talks at tech conferences, writing blog posts evangelizing Kafka)
  • Experience working on stream processing technology or query processing systems

What we offer

  • Remote-First Work
  • Robust Insurance Benefits
  • Flexible Time Away
  • The Best Teammates
  • Experience Ambassadors
  • Open and Honest Culture
  • Well-Being and Growth
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