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 secure-by-default building blocks for product teams.
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.
