Senior Software Engineer – Flink Infrastructure (Remote – Canada) in British Columbia, Canada

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. This technology will allow every organization to create experiences and use the power of data in ways that profoundly impact the way we all live. This impact is our purpose and drives us to do better every day.

One Confluent. One team. One Data Streaming Platform.

Data Connects Us.

About the Role:

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.

What You Will Do:

• Develop a high-availability control plane architecture for Flink, ensuring it is resilient, scalable, and can manage the lifecycle of the necessary resources efficiently

• You will play a crucial role in designing, developing and operationalizing high performance, scalable, reliable and resilient systems

• Independently drive execution of software projects to deliver complex projects in production with a focus on quality

• Troubleshoot issues and improve operations for complex technical stack that spans all the 3 clouds

What You Will Bring:

• BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience

• 5+ years of relevant experience

• Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development

• Experience building and operating large-scale systems

• Solid understanding of basic systems operations (disk, network, operating systems, etc)

• A self-starter with the ability to work effectively in teams

• Proficiency in Go, Python, C++, or other statically typed languages

What Gives You an Edge:

• A strong background in distributed storage systems or databases

• Familiarity with Kubernetes or other similar Container orchestration platforms

• Experience with public clouds (AWS, Azure and/or GCP)

Come As You Are

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