Confluent is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to architect, build, and operate security services that are core to the company’s cloud infrastructure and product platforms, ensuring these systems are reliable, observable, and resilient in production.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with significant experience operating ring-0/mission critical systems.
- Strong backend software development experience (Go, Java, Rust, Python).
- Expertise with distributed systems, cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure), Kubernetes, service mesh, and container orchestration.
- Strong understanding of security domains: IAM, OAuth2, OIDC, PKI, secrets management, policy engines, audit pipelines, zero trust architecture.
- Experience building highly reliable, observable, and resilient production systems.
- Operational expertise: SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, on-call leadership, incident management.
- Experience with SPIFFE/SPIRE, OPA/Gatekeeper, Envoy, Istio, and workload identity management.
Responsibilities
- Architect, design, and develop security platform services with a strong focus on scalability, security, and developer experience.
- Lead operational design for reliability: build comprehensive observability, monitoring, and incident response automation into security-critical services.
- Build automation and tooling to drive self-healing systems, proactive risk detection, failure recovery, and continuous resilience testing.
- Collaborate with compliance, governance, and risk teams to translate regulatory and policy requirements into scalable technical controls.
- Lead technical design reviews, security architecture reviews, and incident postmortems for platform-level incidents.
- Mentor engineers across multiple disciplines on both security and operational best practices.
- Own end-to-end delivery of services: from initial design and development through deployment, production hardening, and lifecycle maintenance.
Other
- Strong collaboration skills to drive alignment across engineering, security, and compliance stakeholders.
- Excellent communication skills with ability to influence technical and business leaders.
- Experience leading cross-org security platform architecture initiatives.
- Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other.
- No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together.
