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At Confluent, organizations harness the power of continuous data flow to innovate and succeed in the digital age. We are pioneering a new category within data infrastructure—data streaming. Our technology enables organizations to create impactful experiences and utilize data in transformative ways. This mission drives us to improve daily.
About The Role
We seek a Data Engineer to help build, optimize, and maintain our real-time data streaming infrastructure. Ideal for someone passionate about distributed systems, stream processing, and data engineering best practices. You will collaborate with experienced engineers to design, develop, and deploy scalable data pipelines supporting critical applications.
What You Will Do
1. Design, develop, and maintain real-time data pipelines using Apache Kafka, Flink, and other streaming technologies.
2. Work with structured and unstructured data for analytics, monitoring, and event-driven applications.
3. Optimize data ingestion, transformation, and storage for performance, reliability, and scalability.
4. Collaborate with software engineers, data scientists, and DevOps teams to integrate data solutions into production environments.
5. Implement data quality, observability, and governance best practices. Troubleshoot and resolve performance issues in streaming applications and distributed systems.
What You Will Bring
1. A degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Software Engineering, or related fields.
2. Strong programming skills in Python, Java, or Scala.
3. Familiarity with SQL and NoSQL databases.
4. Basic understanding of Kafka, Flink, Spark, or similar stream processing technologies (hands-on experience is a plus).
5. Exposure to cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and infrastructure as code.
6. Interest in distributed systems, data architectures, and real-time analytics.
7. Strong problem-solving skills and eagerness to learn in a fast-paced environment.
What Gives You An Edge
1. Experience with Apache Kafka.
2. Knowledge of batch and streaming data architectures.
3. Product mindset to understand business needs and develop scalable engineering solutions.
Come As You Are
Confluent values diversity and inclusion. We are committed to building a global team that reflects a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences. Employment decisions are based on job-related criteria without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other protected classes.
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