Principal Engineer I - Cloud Observability Job at Confluent

Principal Engineer I - Cloud Observability

Confluent

Location:
India

Category:
IT - Software Development

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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

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
May 04, 2026

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Remote work

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