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Confluent

Senior Software Engineer - Platform Infrastructure (Remote USA)

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3 months ago
Remote, United States
Senior

Base Salary

$192k - $226k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Architect, design, and develop platform services with a focus on scalability and security.
  • Lead operational design for reliability, including observability and incident response automation.
  • Build automation and tooling for self-healing systems and proactive risk detection.
  • Collaborate with compliance and risk teams to implement scalable technical controls.
  • Lead technical design reviews and incident postmortems for platform-level incidents.
  • Mentor engineers on security and operational best practices.
  • Own end-to-end delivery of services from design to lifecycle maintenance.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of experience in software engineering, SRE, or security engineering roles.
  • Strong backend software development experience in Go, Java, Rust, or Python.
  • Expertise with distributed systems and cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure).
  • Strong understanding of security domains such as IAM, OAuth2, and zero trust architecture.
  • Experience building reliable and resilient production systems.
  • Operational expertise in SLOs, SLIs, and incident management.
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to influence stakeholders.
  • BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or related field, or equivalent experience.