Software Engineer - WarpStream
Company: Confluent
Location: Washington
Posted on: June 24, 2025
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Job Description:
With Confluent, organizations can harness the full power of
continuously flowing data to innovate and win in the modern digital
world. We have a purpose that drives us to do better every day –
were creating an entirely new category within data infrastructure -
data streaming. This technology will allow every organization to
create experiences and use the power of data in ways that
profoundly impact the way we all live. This impact is our purpose
and drives us to do better every day. About the Role: WarpStream is
an Apache Kafka compatible data streaming platform built directly
on top of object storage with zero local disks. It’s delivered to
customers as a BYOC-style offering. The WarpStream team is
responsible for this product offering from top to bottom, and as a
Senior Engineer you’ll do everything from working on the storage
engine running in the Agents, improving the scalability of our
multi-tenant control plane, implementing new features like
transactions, active-active multi-regions clusters, and even write
some HTML/Javascript for our developer console. We’re a small team
of You will have an opportunity to solve complex distributed
systems problems at scale. You will build services that can operate
across different cloud service providers like AWS, GCP, and Azure.
You’ll be on-call for all of it. The WarpStream team is fully
remote and geographically distributed, currently we have engineers
in: Spain, France, Canada, Ireland, and the USA. What You Will Do:
• Independently drive execution of complex technical projects end
to end. • Build mission-critical backend services that deliver
value to our customers. You will play a crucial role in
architecting, designing, developing and operationalizing high
performance, scalable, reliable and resilient services. •
Troubleshoot and debug technical issues inside a deep and complex
technical stack that includes microservices, containers, and
virtualization. • Ensure operational readiness of the services and
meet the availability and performance SLA commitments to our
customers. What You Will Bring: • 10 years industry experience
designing, building, scaling and supporting backend systems in
production with a solid grasp on good software engineering
practices such as code reviews, deep focus on quality, and
documentation • Strong programming and algorithmic skills.
Proficiency in a major programming language, e.g. Java, Go, C /
C++, Python, etc • Deep curiosity and enthusiasm for distributed
systems and storage systems • Strong focus on project delivery and
communication skills • Experience in driving operational excellence
for large production services • A strong sense of customer
centricity, teamwork, technical leadership and mentorship and are
excited about team and company success What Gives You an Edge: •
Proven track record of delivering large-scale, highly available,
high quality systems • Hands-on technical expertise in large scale
systems engineering or distributed systems • On-call experience
handling critical systems
Keywords: Confluent, Centreville , Software Engineer - WarpStream, IT / Software / Systems , Washington, Virginia
