Backend Software Engineer - Cloud Traffic and Networking (Remote - Canada)

Backend Software Engineer - Cloud Traffic and Networking (Remote - 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: To realize Confluent’s enormous potential, we are looking for software engineers, at various levels, to grow our Traffic team which is responsible for building and managing the networking fabric of Confluent Cloud. Cloud networking is a strategic investment area for Confluent with the potential to impact the company’s top and bottom line. The data plane area in the Traffic team focuses on the performance, security, reliability, and cost optimizations for all traffic that ingresses and egresses a customer's Kafka cluster on Confluent Cloud. We are looking for someone with an interest in building large-scale distributed systems, with a focus on building and managing network data planes for containerized workloads in the cloud. The ideal candidate would be passionate about network data plane performance, scale, cost optimizations, and building robust software. What You Will Do: Build the software underpinning the mission-critical Confluent Cloud network data plane platform. 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. Build upon open source software to deliver business impact. Troubleshoot issues and improve ops for complex technical stack that spans all the 3 clouds and includes microservices, containers, and virtualization. What You Will Bring: BS, MS in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience. 2+ years of relevant cloud infrastructure/cloud networking experience. Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development. Experience building and operating large-scale systems. Solid understanding at a systems level (disk, network, operating systems, etc). A self-starter with the ability to work effectively in teams. Proficiency in C++, Go, Python, or other statically typed languages. Experience/knowledge with public clouds (AWS, Azure or GCP). What Gives You an Edge: A Strong networking background combined with your software engineering experience. 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. The more diverse we are, the richer our community and the broader our impact. Employment decisions are made on the basis of 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 applicable law. Click HERE to review our Candidate Privacy Notice which describes how and when Confluent, Inc., and its group companies, collects, uses, and shares certain personal information of California job applicants and prospective employees. #LI-Remote #J-18808-Ljbffr