Senior Software Engineer II

IBM

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Posted: 71 days ago
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JOB TITLE: Confluent - Senior Software Engineer II As a Senior Software Engineer II within the Confluent team, you will design, build, and evolve internal infrastructure services to power the core platform behind Confluent Cloud. You will own systems ensuring cloud infrastructure is secure, scalable, observable, and reliable across tens of thousands of instances and multiple regions. Your daily work involves developing Kubernetes operators and managing the full lifecycle of infrastructure, including performance monitoring and capacity planning. You will utilize Go, Java, or Python alongside tools like Terraform, Prometheus, Grafana, and GitOps. The role requires deep knowledge of Linux, networking, and systems internals to solve complex data streaming infrastructure problems. You will collaborate across teams to enable autonomous deployment of services within a cloud-native ecosystem including AWS, GCP, and Azure.

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Skills

Go Kubernetes Terraform Apache Kafka Python Java GitOps Prometheus Grafana CI/CD Linux AWS GCP Azure Networking Cloud Native

What you'll do

Design, build, and evolve internal infrastructure services written in Go as Kubernetes operators.
Manage systems to ensure cloud infrastructure is secure, scalable, observable, and reliable.
Utilize GitOps, Terraform, Prometheus, and Grafana to maintain infrastructure stability.
Manage the full lifecycle of infrastructure including availability, performance, monitoring, and capacity planning.
Operate large-scale systems across tens of thousands of instances and multiple regions.
Influence the architecture and operational strategy for critical cloud service infrastructure.
Participate in an 8-hour, follow-the-sun on-call rotation.

What we're looking for

Master's Degree (preferred).
Strong programming skills in Go, Java, or Python to read, debug, and evolve code.
Deep understanding of systems internals including filesystems, memory, networking, and kernel behavior.
Hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production and modern cloud-native ecosystems like AWS, GCP, or Azure.
Expertise in automation and reliability practices including GitOps, Terraform, CI/CD, and observability.
Strong collaboration, communication, and ownership mindset to work independently in a distributed team.