As a Senior Software Engineer on the Confluent Cloud Traffic team in Atlanta, you will play a pivotal role in developing and maintaining high-performance traffic management systems. Your day-to-day responsibilities include designing scalable solutions to handle complex routing and load balancing challenges, collaborating with cross-functional teams to integrate new features, and ensuring system reliability through rigorous testing and continuous improvement. The ideal candidate possesses expertise in Java or Scala, along with experience in Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud-native technologies such as AWS or GCP. You should also have a strong background in distributed systems and microservices architecture. This role involves working on cutting-edge traffic management solutions that support Confluent Cloud's mission to provide robust data streaming services at scale.