Senior Software Engineer Ii - Confluent

About the Product & Team

Kafka Connect is the foundational streaming integration framework for Apache Kafka. It enables reliable, scalable data movement between Kafka and a broad ecosystem of databases, cloud services, and storage systems.

Designed for mission-critical production environments, Kafka Connect provides a highly configurable, distributed, and fault-tolerant architecture that supports high-volume data pipelines across hybrid and cloud-native deployments.

As a strategic component of the Confluent Cloud platform, our team develops the extensible engine that transforms and routes data streams at scale, powering the infrastructure our customers depend on for their most critical data workflows.

What You''ll Do

• Design, build, and operationalize high-performance, scalable, and resilient distributed systems for the Kafka Connect platform.
• Independently own the end-to-end execution of complex technical projects, ensuring high-quality delivery in production environments.
• Solve challenging problems in the stream processing space by leveraging cloud and on-premises infrastructure to improve the performance, scalability, and elasticity of Kafka Connect connectors.
• Engage with the open-source community, providing technical guidance and thought leadership.
• Promote a culture of engineering excellence through clear communication, high-quality execution, and effective collaboration.