Senior Software Engineer

Confluent Senior Software Engineer Indianapolis, Indiana Apply Now

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.

To be considered for an interview, please make sure your application is full in line with the job specs as found below.

About the Role :

Confluent is seeking an innovative and executing Senior Developer to help make stream processing feel like using a database with SQL.

In this role, you will be instrumental in developing the core building blocks that will allow users a true just-in time, consumption based experience, making it the most efficient and fast cloud native Apache Flink experience on the market.

You will be working in a team with other known Flink experts iterating on an already existing implementation based on actual usage data and product requirements.

What You Will Do :

• Work on the next iterations of Flink user defined functions that can execute untrusted code securely on Confluent cloud - in java and python on various cloud service providers.
• Work on building block flink components such as shim layers, SQL logical query planner, parser, optimizer, flink control plane and SQL runtime on Confluent Cloud.
• Collaborate with partner teams across components like compute platform, schema registry, kafka, flink runtime and cloud control plane to get work done.
• Following a holistic development approach you will be responsible for the code quality, test coverage, documentation and maintainability of the components you and your team work on.
• Designing Components : You will not only implement aspects of Flink runtime but also draft designs, discuss them and curate and moderate a decision with involved stakeholders.
• Open Source contribution : As part of the Flink runtime team you will contribute to relevant changes and features to Open Source Apache Flink.
• Open Source visibility : You will also write blog posts and give talks at meetups and conferences.
• Team : As part of the team you will help to follow and maintain processes, by being an active part of the team, leading meetings and taking initiatives where feasible and participating in on-call rotations.

What You Will Bring :

• 2+ years of software development.
• Hands-on experience in designing and development of complex distributed systems especially in the Context of Apache Flink.
• Strong problem-solving skills, capable of translating complex requirements into effective solutions.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to collaborate across teams.
• Familiarity with Flink or similar systems - checkpointing, exactly-once semantics, 2-phase commit protocols is highly desirable.

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.

At Confluent, we are committed to providing competitive pay and benefits that are in line with industry standards.

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