Senior Software Engineer

Location:
Remote, United States
Employment Type:
FullTime
Location Type:
Remote
Department
Engineering
Compensation:
$192.2K $225.8K Offers Equity
At Confluent, we are committed to providing competitive pay and benefits that are in line with industry standards. We analyze and carefully consider several factors when determining compensation, including work history, education, professional experience, and location. The actual pay may vary depending on your skills, qualifications, experience, and work location. In addition, Confluent offers a wide range of employee benefits. To learn more about our benefits click here (https://confluentbenefits.com/) .
Overview

Were not just building better tech. Were rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesnt 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.
About the Role

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer II to architect, build, and operate services that are core to the companys cloud infrastructure and product platforms. This is a hybrid engineering role, blending deep software development expertise with hands-on operational excellence.
You will design highly scalable platform services (authentication, authorization, identity, secrets management, policy enforcement, security telemetry pipelines, etc.), while also ensuring these systems are reliable, observable, and resilient in production. Youll work across engineering, security, compliance, and platform orgs to deliver secure-by-default building blocks that empower product teams to integrate security seamlessly.
What You Will Do
Architect, design, and develop

platform services

with a strong focus on scalability, security, and developer experience.

Lead

operational design

for reliability: build comprehensive observability, monitoring, and incident response automation into security-critical services.

Build

automation and tooling

to drive self-healing systems, proactive risk detection, failure recovery, and continuous resilience testing.

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

Lead technical design reviews, security architecture reviews, and incident postmortems for platform-level incidents.

Mentor engineers across multiple disciplines on both security and operational best practices.

Own end-to-end delivery of services: from initial design and development through deployment, production hardening, and lifecycle maintenance.

What You Will Bring

6+ years of experience in software engineering, SRE, or security engineering roles, with significant experience operating security platform services.

Strong backend software development experience (Go, Java, Rust, Python).

Expertise with distributed systems, cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure), Kubernetes, service mesh, and container orchestration.

Strong understanding of security domains: IAM, OAuth2, OIDC, PKI, secrets management, policy engines, audit pipelines, zero trust architecture.

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

Operational expertise: SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, on-call leadership, incident management.

Strong collaboration skills to drive alignment across engineering, security, and compliance stakeholders.

Excellent communication skills with ability to influence technical and business leaders.

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

What Gives You an Edge

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

Exposure to security compliance frameworks (FedRAMP).

Experience leading cross-org security platform architecture initiatives.

Ready to build what's next? Lets get in motion.

Come As You Are
Belonging isnt a perk here. Its 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 whats possible.
Were 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.
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