Senior Software Engineer
Not Disclosed•Full-TimeRemote
location_onCarlos Gilbert Elementary School, 300, Griffin Street, Santa Fe, Santa Fe County, New Mexico, 87501, United States
About Confluent
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.
About the Role
Our team sits within the Developer Productivity (DevProd) organization and is responsible for ensuring that Confluent engineers can safely and efficiently build, test, and operate our cloud at scale. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design, build, and operate internal platform services and tools that improve developer experience and overall engineering velocity.
You'll take ownership of meaningful projects—often with some ambiguity—partnering with senior engineers and stakeholders to shape solutions, implement them, and support them in production and critical pre-prod environments. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys platform services work, cares deeply about testability and reliability in complex distributed systems, and thrives in R&D-leaning spaces where you prototype, iterate, and converge on the right solution.
Hiring Process
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Culture & Belonging
Come As You Are. Belonging isn't a perk here. It's the baseline. We work across time zones and backgrounds, knowing the best ideas come from different perspectives. And we make space for everyone to lead, grow, and challenge what's possible.
Equal Opportunity
We're proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Employment decisions are based on job-related criteria, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other classification protected by law.
Work location
Work model: Remote
Carlos Gilbert Elementary School, 300, Griffin Street, Santa Fe, Santa Fe County, New Mexico, 87501, United States
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Key Responsibilities
- check_circleDesign and build secure, multi-tenant internal developer platform services
- check_circleOperate and maintain reliability, performance, and monitoring for platform services
- check_circleImprove pre-production and performance testing capabilities through automation
- check_circleExplore and integrate AI-assisted workflows for developer productivity
- check_circleMentor junior engineers through design and code reviews
- check_circleDrive end-to-end project delivery from design documentation to production rollout
- check_circleParticipate in on-call rotations and incident response for owned components
Requirements
- verifiedBS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience)
- verifiedAt least 5 years of professional software engineering experience
- verifiedProficiency in at least one statically typed language (e.g., Java, Go)
- verifiedProficiency in a scripting language (e.g., Python)
- verifiedExperience with CI/CD, containers, and infrastructure-as-code
Nice to Have
Hands-on experience building or integrating AI-powered developer tools (e.g., code assistants, triage copilots, anomaly detection over logs/metrics, intelligent test selection) in production environments. Deep experience with performance testing and benchmarking frameworks for distributed systems or multi-tenant cloud services, including workload modeling and automated quality gates.
