Senior Software Engineer II

Location: Remote, United States

Employment Type: FullTime

Compensation: $192.2K - $225.8K Offers Equity

At Confluent, we are not just creating advanced technology; we are transforming how data is utilized and the potential it unlocks. Our platform ensures that data is dynamic and always in motion, enabling companies to adapt swiftly, innovate intelligently, and deliver dynamic experiences for their customers.

Joining our team calls for a unique individual—someone who questions the status quo, provides constructive feedback, and thrives in a collaborative environment free of egos. Together, we’re pushing boundaries as One Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer II to take the lead in architecting, building, and maintaining essential services that form the backbone of our cloud infrastructure and product platforms. In this hybrid role, you will leverage your extensive software development expertise alongside a commitment to operational excellence.

• Design, architect, and develop platform services with a keen focus on scalability, security, and optimal developer experience.

• Guide operational design to ensure reliability by integrating observability, monitoring, and automated incident response into security-critical services.

• Create automation and tools for self-healing systems and proactive risk management, enhancing failure recovery processes and conducting continuous resilience testing.

• Collaborate with compliance, governance, and risk teams to effectively translate regulatory requirements into scalable technical controls.

• Lead technical architectural reviews and postmortems for platform-level incidents, enhancing our services continually.

• Mentor engineers on security and operational best practices across different disciplines, fostering a culture of knowledge sharing.

• Take ownership of service delivery from initial design and development through deployment, hardening, and maintenance.

• At least 6 years of experience in software engineering, SRE, or security engineering roles, with extensive experience managing security platform services.

• Strong backend development skills in languages such as Go, Java, Rust, or Python.

• Deep understanding of distributed systems, cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure), Kubernetes, service mesh, and container orchestration.

• Thorough knowledge of security domains including IAM, OAuth2, OIDC, PKI, secrets management, policy engines, audit pipelines, and zero trust architecture.

• Experience building and managing highly reliable, observable, and resilient production systems.

• Expertise in operational strategies: SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, incident management, and on-call leadership.

• Excellent collaboration skills to align multiple stakeholders across engineering, security, and compliance.

• Effective communication skills with the ability to influence both technical and business leaders.

• A BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

• Familiarity with SPIFFE/SPIRE, OPA/Gatekeeper, Envoy, Istio, and workload identity management.

• Knowledge of security compliance frameworks such as FedRAMP.

• Experience in leading cross-organizational security platform architecture initiatives.

Come As You Are

At Confluent, we prioritize diversity and belonging. We believe that the best ideas emerge from a variety of perspectives. We encourage everyone to lead, grow, and push the boundaries of what’s possible.

We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace where employment decisions are made based on relevant criteria without discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other classification protected by law.