Staff Software Engineer I

With Confluent, organisations can harness the full power of continuously flowing data to innovate and win in the modern digital world. We have a purpose that drives us to do better everyday – we're creating an entirely new category within data infrastructure - data streaming. This technology will allow every organisation to create experiences and use the power of data in ways that profoundly impact the way we all live. This impact is our purpose and drives us to do better every day.

One Confluent. One team. One Data Streaming Platform.

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About the Role:

The Kafka Clients team has a vision to provide a great Kafka developer experience for the user communities by aiming to simplify and improve the usability of our non java languages open source libraries. As a Staff Engineer, you will design, build, and own the product engineering decisions by closely working with the team, product managers, customers, and other stakeholders. You will drive architectural decisions and lead in shaping the product landscape around client interfaces through their ease of use, reliability, and efficient development. You will touch on a number of language interfaces across all popular programming languages, as well as develop and advance the core C/C++ capabilities backing those interface languages.

What You Will Do:

• Build and enhance the open source libraries around Kafka using low level Kafka protocol.
• Enhance the various language libraries to better standards and more usable APIs.
• Collaborate effectively across engineering, product, field teams and other key stakeholders to create and execute impactful roadmap for the clients team.
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship and drive strong teamwork.
• Integrate long term needs from open source and partner teams into technical plans.
• Identify and manage technical debt and long term projects equally.

What You Will Bring:

• BS, MS or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 12+ years of relevant software development experience.
• 3+ years of development involving SDKs, language libraries, or other client side applications.
• Proficiency in C/C++
• Deep technical knowledge of at least two programming languages.
• Additional language (Python, Golang, Javascript, Rust, Ruby, or .Net) experience will have an added advantage.
• Ability to influence the team, peers, and management using effective communication and collaborative techniques.
• Proven experience in leading and mentoring technical teams.

What Gives You an Edge:

• A strong understanding of good and bad patterns for client interface APIs.
• A keen interest in understanding users of your software and solving their problems.
• Experience developing SaaS services on public clouds providers (AWS, Azure or GCP).
• Interest in evangelism (giving talks at tech conferences, writing blog posts evangelizing Kafka).
• Wide programming language idiom exposure.

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