We’re not just building better tech. We’re rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real-time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them.

It takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together.

One Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.

The Kora Background Plane team has the vision to build the best experience for Kora - Confluent’s cloud native Kafka service. As a Staff Software engineer, you will design and build efficient and performant algorithms for right sizing, load balancing and seamless scalability of Kora. You will be instrumental in driving the vision and roadmap providing technical leadership, mentoring, and enabling a high-performing engineering team to tackle complex distributed data challenges at scale.

• Build the software underpinning mission-critical Kora Background Plane platform. You will play a crucial role in designing, developing and operationalizing high performance, scalable, reliable and resilient systems

• Collaborate effectively across engineering, product, field teams and other key stakeholders to create and execute impactful roadmap for the Kora Background plane team.

• Meet and exceed Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for critical cloud services owned by the Kora Background Plane team.

• Evaluate and enhance the efficiency of our platform's technology stack, keeping pace with industry trends and adopting state-of-the-art solutions

• Provide technical leadership, mentorship and drive strong teamwork

• 12+ years of relevant software development experience

• 5+ years of experience with designing, building, and scaling distributed systems

• Deep technical expertise in large scale distributed systems

• Experience running production services in the cloud with demonstrated operational excellence

• Proficiency in Java, Scala

• Ability to influence the team, peers, and management using effective communication and collaborative techniques

• Proven experience in leading and mentoring technical teams

• BS, MS or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience

• A strong background in distributed storage systems or databases

• Experience in the areas of load balancing stateful distributed systems

• Experience developing SaaS services on public clouds providers(AWS, Azure or GCP)

• Interest in evangelism (giving talks at tech conferences, writing blog posts evangelizing Kafka)

Come As You Are

Belonging isn’t a perk here. It’s the baseline. We work across time zones and backgrounds, knowing the best ideas come from different perspectives. And we make space for everyone to lead, grow, and challenge what’s possible.

We’re proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Employment decisions are based on 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 law.