Confluent Senior Software Engineer - Topeka, Kansas
With Confluent, organizations can harness the full power of continuously flowing data to innovate and win in the modern digital world. We have a purpose that drives us to do better every day – we're creating an entirely new category within data infrastructure - data streaming.
About the Role:
Confluent is seeking an innovative and executing Senior Developer to help make stream processing feel like using a database with SQL. In this role, you will be instrumental in developing the core building blocks that will allow users a true just-in-time, consumption-based experience, making it the most efficient and fast cloud-native Apache Flink experience on the market.
What You Will Do:
- Work on the next iterations of Flink user defined functions that can execute untrusted code securely on Confluent cloud - in Java and Python on various cloud service providers.
- Work on building block Flink components such as shim layers, SQL logical query planner, parser, optimizer, Flink control plane, and SQL runtime on Confluent Cloud.
- Collaborate with partner teams across components like compute platform, schema registry, Kafka, Flink runtime, and cloud control plane.
- Ensure code quality, test coverage, documentation, and maintainability of the components you and your team work on.
- Design components by drafting designs, discussing them, and curating decisions with involved stakeholders.
- Contribute to relevant changes and features to Open Source Apache Flink.
- Write blog posts and give talks at meetups and conferences to strengthen the position of Confluent Cloud as industry experts for stream processing.
- Participate in team processes, lead meetings, take initiatives, and participate in on-call rotations.
What You Will Bring:
- 2+ years of software development experience.
- Hands-on experience in designing and developing complex distributed systems, especially in the context of Apache Flink.
- 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.
- Familiarity with Flink or similar systems - checkpointing, exactly-once semantics, 2-phase commit protocols is highly desirable.
Come As You Are
At Confluent, equality is a core tenet of our culture. We are committed to building an inclusive global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences.
At Confluent, we are committed to providing competitive pay and benefits that are in line with industry standards. This position has an annual estimated salary of $139,230 - $163,620, an annual bonus, and a competitive equity package. The actual pay may vary depending on your skills, qualifications, experience, and work location.
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