[Remote] Senior Software Engineer- Developer Productivity

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Confluent is a company focused on revolutionizing data movement and streaming. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their Developer Productivity team, where the role involves creating systems and tools that enhance the software development lifecycle and improve engineering productivity.


Responsibilities

  • Design and implement source code repository management tools, build automation, artifact management, containerization solutions, and other foundational services for all Confluent products
  • Buildout and manage the CI/CD services and end-to-end pipelines for both our cloud and on-premise platforms
  • Identify and solve inefficiencies in our services and tools to improve engineering productivity while automating everything
  • You, and the rest of the team, will be responsible for the availability, performance, monitoring, and incident response of the Developer Productivity infrastructure
  • Partner across the engineering team and other key stakeholders to build solutions and drive towards the overall roadmap for Developer Productivity
  • Define standardized practices to champion a great engineering culture across the company

Skills

  • BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience
  • Minimum 2+ years of relevant cloud infrastructure and services experience
  • Experience developing in a scripting language (e.g. Python, Ruby, Perl, etc.)
  • Working knowledge of source control management systems such as Git
  • Experience with build frameworks (e.g. Maven, Gradle, Bazel, etc.)
  • Experience in automating releases, continuous integration/continuous deployment systems, and relevant tools (e.g. Jenkins, Semaphore CI, etc.)
  • Experience with configuration management systems, infrastructure as code (IaC) tools, and secrets management (e.g. Ansible, Puppet, Packer, Terraform, Consul, Vault, etc.)
  • Experience building and operating large-scale systems with cloud computing platforms (e.g. Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, etc.)
  • Working knowledge of databases, caching, and messaging systems (MySql, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Voldemort, Kafka, etc.)

Company Overview

  • Confluent offers a streaming platform based on Apache Kafka that enables companies to easily access data as real-time streams. It was founded in 2014, and is headquartered in Mountain View, California, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is https://confluent.io.

  • Company H1B Sponsorship

  • Confluent has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 142 in 2025, 107 in 2024, 91 in 2023, 155 in 2022, 119 in 2021, 50 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.

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