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Own end‑to‑end architecture and delivery of complex control‑plane systems (APIs, controllers, orchestration workflows, data models) that support Confluent Cloud products
Lead open‑ended technical initiatives: take ambiguous problems, clarify requirements, define the approach, and drive execution across teams and services
Raise the bar on reliability and operations by building resilient systems with strong observability, clear SLOs, runbooks, and safe rollout/rollback patterns
Collaborate across orgs (Cloud Platform, Kafka, Compute, Security, Traffic, SRE and others) to align on designs, trade‑offs, and long‑term platform direction
Mentor and unblock engineers at multiple levels
provide high‑quality design and code reviews, and help grow the broader engineering team
Continuously improve developer experience for our control‑plane stack (tooling, automation, CI/CD, test strategy) to remove toil and increase velocity
Influence technical strategy in your domain: identify high‑impact opportunities, propose roadmaps, and help prioritize work aligned with business goals
Contribute to engineering culture via documentation, design reviews, and knowledge sharing (internal talks, wikis, or external content where appropriate)
Requirements:
Typically 6+ years of software engineering experience, with a strong track record of delivering complex backend or distributed systems to production
Deep hands‑on experience with at least some of: Distributed systems design (consistency models, failure modes, data modeling, scalability)
Cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and cloud‑native architectures
Kubernetes or similar orchestration platforms
Proficiency in one or more of Go, Java or Scala, and comfort working across services, infrastructure, and automation
Able to define end‑to‑end designs, break them into milestones, de‑risk early, and land them on time with high quality
Operationally rigorous: you think in terms of SLOs, failure modes, observability, and incident response
you design for safe change and graceful degradation
Great communicator: you write clear design docs, explain trade‑offs crisply, and can lead technical discussions with diverse stakeholders (engineers, PMs, leadership)
Leader without authority: you’ve successfully led cross‑team projects, influenced technical direction beyond your immediate code, and helped others level up
Values‑aligned: you care about customer impact, reliability, long‑term maintainability, and helping the team win, not just shipping features
Nice to have:
Experience building control‑plane systems (APIs, operators/controllers, metadata services, provisioning/orchestration workflows)
Background with Apache Kafka or other streaming/data systems
Prior work on multi‑region, high‑availability, or disaster‑recovery architectures
Experience in security‑sensitive infrastructure (identity, certificates, secrets, mTLS, policy) or compliance‑driven environments
Contributions to open source projects, public talks, or technical blogs in relevant areas