Staff Software Engineer

What this role involves

Confluent is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to build AI capabilities for Confluent Cloud, focusing on inference-on-streaming-data and AI agents. The role involves designing and building backend services in Go, Java, and Python, owning features end-to-end, and leading cross-team technical work. Requires 10+ years of distributed systems experience and strong Kubernetes knowledge.

Skills this posting asks for

• go
• java
• python
• kubernetes
• distributed systems
• cloud-native
• control planes
• api servers
• containerization
• networking
• resource isolation
• model serving
• llm
• agent infrastructure
• streaming data

Requirements

• 10 years of experience
• Level: staff

From the employer’s posting

We’re not just building better tech. We’re rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real-time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the…