Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer - Platform Infrastructure

Confluent

Location:
United States

Category:
IT - Software Development

Contract Type:
Not provided

Salary:

192200.00 - 225810.00 USD / Year

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Job Description:

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer II to architect, build, and operate services that are core to the company’s cloud infrastructure and product platforms. This is a hybrid engineering role, blending deep software development expertise with hands-on operational excellence. You will design highly scalable platform services (authentication, authorization, identity, secrets management, policy enforcement, security telemetry pipelines, etc.), while also ensuring these systems are reliable, observable, and resilient in production. You’ll work across engineering, security, compliance, and platform orgs to deliver secure-by-default building blocks that empower product teams to integrate security seamlessly.

Job Responsibility:

Architect, design, and develop platform services with a strong focus on scalability, security, and developer experience
Lead operational design for reliability: build comprehensive observability, monitoring, and incident response automation into security-critical services
Build automation and tooling to drive self-healing systems, proactive risk detection, failure recovery, and continuous resilience testing
Collaborate with compliance, governance, and risk teams to translate regulatory and policy requirements into scalable technical controls
Lead technical design reviews, security architecture reviews, and incident postmortems for platform-level incidents
Mentor engineers across multiple disciplines on both security and operational best practices
Own end-to-end delivery of services: from initial design and development through deployment, production hardening, and lifecycle maintenance

Requirements:

6+ years of experience in software engineering, SRE, or security engineering roles, with significant experience operating security platform services
Strong backend software development experience (Go, Java, Rust, Python)
Expertise with distributed systems, cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure), Kubernetes, service mesh, and container orchestration
Strong understanding of security domains: IAM, OAuth2, OIDC, PKI, secrets management, policy engines, audit pipelines, zero trust architecture
Experience building highly reliable, observable, and resilient production systems
Operational expertise: SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, on-call leadership, incident management
Strong collaboration skills to drive alignment across engineering, security, and compliance stakeholders
Excellent communication skills with ability to influence technical and business leaders
BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience

Nice to have:

Experience with SPIFFE/SPIRE, OPA/Gatekeeper, Envoy, Istio, and workload identity management
Exposure to security compliance frameworks (FedRAMP)
Experience leading cross-org security platform architecture initiatives

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
Offers Equity

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
January 31, 2026

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Remote work

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