Confluent

Staff Software Engineer - Flink Control Plane

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7 months ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+
H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$236k - $277k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Develop control-plane services that orchestrate Flink job submission, scaling, and recovery.
  • Build Kubernetes operators and orchestrators for serverless resource management.
  • Design APIs for job management, multi-tenancy, and isolation.
  • Own code quality, test coverage, documentation, and maintainability for team components.
  • Draft, discuss, and facilitate technical design decisions with stakeholders.
  • Participate in team processes, lead meetings, take initiatives, and join on-call rotations.
  • Mentor less-experienced engineers in control-plane architecture and junior developers working with serverless Apache Flink.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of relevant software development experience.
  • Deep knowledge of distributed systems orchestration, including Kubernetes and control loops.
  • Experience building high-scale control planes, API servers, or cloud-native infrastructure.
  • Knowledge of containerization, networking, and resource isolation.
  • Strong problem-solving skills for translating complex requirements into effective solutions.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to collaborate across teams.

Tech Stack

Apache FlinkKubernetes

Categories

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About Confluent

1,001-5,000 employees

Confluent is pioneering a fundamentally new category of data infrastructure focused on data in motion. Our cloud-native offering is the foundational platform for data in motion --- designed to be the intelligent connective tissue enabling real-time data, from multiple sources, to constantly stream across the organization. With Confluent, our customers can meet the new business imperative of delivering rich, digital customer experiences and real-time business operations. Our mission is to help every organization harness data in motion so they can compete and thrive in the modern world.