T - shaped Software Engineer for Avalanche working on backend services and analytics in a remote setup. Collaborate in a high - impact autonomous team with real ownership.
About the role
- Staff Software Engineer I leading design of core control-plane infrastructure for Confluent Cloud. Collaborating across teams to enhance system reliability and architecture.
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end architecture and delivery of complex control-plane systems (APIs, controllers, orchestration workflows, data models) that support Confluent Cloud products.
- Lead open-ended technical initiatives: take ambiguous problems, clarify requirements, define the approach, and drive execution across teams and services.
- Raise the bar on reliability and operations by building resilient systems with strong observability, clear SLOs, runbooks, and safe rollout/rollback patterns.
- Collaborate across orgs (Cloud Platform, Kafka, Compute, Security, Traffic, SRE and others) to align on designs, trade-offs, and long-term platform direction.
- Mentor and unblock engineers at multiple levels; provide high-quality design and code reviews, and help grow the broader engineering team.
- Continuously improve developer experience for our control-plane stack (tooling, automation, CI/CD, test strategy) to remove toil and increase velocity.
- Influence technical strategy in your domain: identify high-impact opportunities, propose roadmaps, and help prioritize work aligned with business goals.
- Contribute to engineering culture via documentation, design reviews, and knowledge sharing (internal talks, wikis, or external content where appropriate).
Requirements
- Typically 6+ years of software engineering experience, with a strong track record of delivering complex backend or distributed systems to production.
- Deep hands-on experience with at least some of: Distributed systems design (consistency models, failure modes, data modeling, scalability).
- Cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and cloud-native architectures.
- Kubernetes or similar orchestration platforms.
- Proficiency in one or more of Go, Java or Scala, and comfort working across services, infrastructure, and automation.
- Able to define end-to-end designs, break them into milestones, de-risk early, and land them on time with high quality.
- You think in terms of SLOs, failure modes, observability, and incident response; you design for safe change and graceful degradation.
- You write clear design docs, explain trade-offs crisply, and can lead technical discussions with diverse stakeholders (engineers, PMs, leadership).
- You’ve successfully led cross-team projects, influenced technical direction beyond your immediate code, and helped others level up.
- You care about customer impact, reliability, long-term maintainability, and helping the team win, not just shipping features.
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- Offers Equity
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