Senior Software Engineer I - Confluent
IBM · Bengaluru · onsite · Posted 40d ago
Undisclosed4–7 yrsfulltimeSourced from
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About this role
Your Role and Responsibilities:
- Own the execution and delivery of projects within a ksqlDB product
- Build strong, subdomain-level expertise (pull queries, state stores, elastic scaling, SQL language, etc.) and confidently field questions from partners/stakeholders in that area.
- Contribute meaningful input in design discussions; demonstrate technical leadership by reviewing others'' work and suggesting architectural improvements.
- Ship features and fixes with the customer in mind; proactively flag and pursue improvements to how ksqlDB serves streaming-SQL use cases.
- Participate in on-call/incident response - diagnose and resolve customer-impacting issues, write/maintain runbooks, and drive retrospectives that reduce operational toil.
- Contribute to team OKRs and collaborate cross-functionally (Kafka Streams, Cloud Control Plane, Product/PM) so technical work maps to business needs.
- Mentor junior/early-career engineers, actively participate in code review, and contribute to interviewing as the team scales.
Required Education:
Bachelor''s Degree
Preferred education
Master''s Degree
Required Technical and Professional Expertise:
- Strong Java proficiency - the ksqlDB/Kafka Streams codebase is JVM-based - with a solid grounding in data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and distributed-systems fundamentals.
- 36 years of professional software engineering experience building and operating backend/distributed systems in production.
- Ability to design, test (unit/integration), and debug features inside a large, established codebase, following existing architecture and code-health practices.
- Familiarity with cloud-native operations: containers/Kubernetes, observability (metrics/logs/traces), and on-call practices.
Solid written/verbal communication - clear design docs, constructive code review, cross-functional collaboration
Preferred Technical and Professional Experience:
- Prior hands-on experience with Kafka, Kafka Streams, or with competing streaming-SQL/database engines is a plus.
- Experience with distributed consensus, state management (e.g., RocksDB-backed state stores), or elastic/auto-scaling distributed systems.
- Exposure to database internals - query planning/optimization, transaction/consistency models - relevant to ksqlDB''s push toward being a true streaming database (pull-query consistency guarantees).
- Experience operating a multi-tenant SaaS control plane (Confluent Cloud or similar).
Some track record of mentoring or leading small technical initiatives
Years of Experience:
4 - 7
4 - 7
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Skills
Software EngineerInterviewingobservabilityKubernetesCode ReviewApache KafkaDistributed SystemsIncident ResponseConfluentKafka StreamsConcurrencyData StructuresDebugcloudSAASAlgorithmsJavaArchitectureoperations
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