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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. The Flink Platform team is at the forefront of building a robust control plane for the Flink product, leveraging advanced database storage to ensure high reliability and efficiency. With a vision centered on innovation and excellence, this team is critical to advancing Confluent's Data in Motion initiative and is committed to supplying the industry with solutions that cater to evolving stream processing demands.
Job Responsibility:
Developing the control plane services that orchestrate Flink job lifecycles (submission, scaling, recovery)
Building Kubernetes operators and orchestrators for serverless resource management
Designing APIs for job management, multi-tenancy, and isolation
Following a holistic development approach you will be responsible for the code quality, test coverage, documentation and maintainability of the components you and your team work on
Designing Components: You will not only implement aspects of Flink Control Plane but also draft designs, discuss them and curate and moderate a decision with involved stakeholders
Team: As part of the team you will help to follow and maintain processes, by being an active part of the team, leading meetings and taking initiatives where feasible and participating in on-call rotations
Mentoring: You will mentor other engineers with less experience in Control plane architecture to get started in the community and more junior developers to get into the area of serverless Apache Flink
Requirements:
10+ years of relevant software development experience
Deep knowledge of distributed systems orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes, control loops)
Experience building high-scale control planes, API servers, or cloud-native infrastructure
Knowledge of containerization, networking, and resource isolation
Strong problem-solving skills, capable of translating complex requirements into effective solutions
Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to collaborate across teams