Senior Software Engineer - Data
Company: Confluent
Location: Boise
Posted on: May 14, 2022
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Job Description:
Confluent is pioneering a fundamentally new category of data
infrastructure focused on data in motion. Have you ever found a new
favorite series on Netflix, picked up groceries curbside at
Walmart, or paid for something using Square? That's the power of
data in motion in action-giving organizations instant access to the
massive amounts of data that is constantly flowing throughout their
business. At Confluent, we're building the foundational platform
for this new paradigm of data infrastructure. Our cloud-native
offering is designed to be the intelligent connective tissue
enabling real-time data, from multiple sources, to constantly
stream across the organization. With Confluent, organizations can
create a central nervous system to innovate and win in a
digital-first world. We're looking for self-motivated team members
who crave a challenge and feel energized to roll up their sleeves
and help realize Confluent's enormous potential. Chart your own
path and take healthy risks as we solve big problems together. We
value having diverse teams and want you to grow as we grow-whether
you're just starting out in your career or managing a large team,
you'll be amazed at the magnitude of your impact. About The Team:
The mission of the Data team at Confluent is to serve as the
central nervous system of all things data for the company: we build
analytics infrastructure, insights, models and tools, to empower
data-driven thinking, and optimize every part of the business. This
position offers limitless opportunities for an ambitious software
engineer to make an immediate and meaningful impact within a hyper
growth start-up, and contribute to a highly engaged open source
community. About The Role: This role will build and improve our
streaming ETL, Data and Analytics infrastructure. By doing so, it
will also expose you to working with voluminous data and the latest
Kafka/Confluent technologies, for example, Petabytes(PB) of
observability streams. In this role you will have opportunities to
work with the Kafka and the Product team at Confluent, and help
influence the product direction and take Kafka's Cloud Native
journey to the next level. The role will be instrumental in
real-time visibility and insights and state-of-the-art business
operational efficiency. You are encouraged to think out of the box
and play with the latest and greatest while exploring their limits.
What You Will Do: + Define streaming data APIs, event driven data
products, in collaboration with engineering and business partners.
+ Architect and build a highly available and durable event
streaming infrastructure which provides end-to-end latency
guarantee. + Develop strong subject matter expertise and manage the
SLAs for those data pipelines. + Partner with Data Scientists and
business partners to onboard more use cases to this streaming
platform to empower every aspect of our business. What You Will
Bring: + Bachelor or advanced degree in Computer Science,
Engineering, or related technical discipline. + 4+ years of
experience in Software Engineering. + Strong knowledge of event
driven architectures and large scale data systems.. + Proficiency
in Java, Scala; Python is a Plus. + Solid understanding of Kafka,
experienced with streaming systems in a production environment. + A
can-do attitude, an innate desire to deliver and a strong sense of
accountability. + Excellent communication skills, ability to
synthesize, simplify and explain complex problems to different
types of fidelities, including executives. What Gives You An Edge:
+ Experience with streaming analytics in a production environment.
+ Knowledge of other Kafka components such as Connect and ksqlDB. +
Experience working with Kubernetes, and large public cloud(AWS,
GCP, Azure) and application deployment and management. + Experience
with building data pipelines from enterprise business systems,
using custom or data integration tools like Stitch, Fivetran,
Confluent Connect, etc. + Fluency in at least one SQL syntax, and
working knowledge of analytics at scale. + Product mindset to
understand business needs, and come up with scalable engineering
solutions. #LI-CM2 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. Confluent requires all employees (in
office and remote) in the U.S. to be vaccinated for COVID-19.
Consistent with federal, state, and local requirements, Confluent
will consider requests for reasonable accommodation based on
medical conditions/contraindications or sincerely-held religious
beliefs where it is able to do so without undue hardship to the
company. Click here to review our California Candidate Privacy
Notice (https://www.confluent.io/candidate-privacy/) , 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
Keywords: Confluent, Boise , Senior Software Engineer - Data, IT / Software / Systems , Boise, Idaho
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