Senior Software Engineer - Kora Global

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 – we're 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.

One Confluent. One team. One Data Streaming Platform.

Data Connects Us.

About The Role

The Kora Global team is part of the broader Kora Orchestration organization working towards re-imagining Apache Kafka as a cloud native data serverless - fully serverless, multi-tenant, and at scale. You will work on building the next generation Kafka by continuing to push the boundaries of distributed system design.

The Kora Global team focuses on crucial elements of Confluent's global replication infrastructure. These include Cluster Linking, MultiRegion Cluster (MRC) and Confluent Replicator, as well as building out the next generation global replication technologies.. These technologies help customers deploy and manage Confluent clusters across multiple regions for high availability and disaster recovery.

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Kora Global team, you will be working on developing and improving Confluent's global replication offerings. You will be instrumental in driving the technical solutions end-to-end, working closely with the team and key stakeholders to design, architect, and develop top-notch solutions. You'll collaborate with product managers, engineers, and other team members. This role will involve working on highly available, reliable, secure, scalable, and multi-tenant aspects of Kora's orchestration layer.

To learn more about what we work on, check out the following:

Learn about Confluent Cluster Linking | Hybrid and Multicloud Architecture

High Availability and Disaster Recovery with Cluster Linking | Hybrid and Multicloud Architecture

Extending the Apache Kafka® Replication Protocol Across Clusters

Multi-Geo Replication 101 for Apache Kafka: The What, How, and Why

What You Will Do

• Driven and excited about challenges of delivering complex projects in production with a focus on quality
• Customer focused - making customers more successful by taking on their most challenging problems motivates you
• Have a strong sense of teamwork and able to make decisions which benefit the team and company
• Identify root causes, and get beyond treating symptoms - motivated to dig deep and solve hard problems

What You Will Bring

• BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience
• 2-3 years plus of relevant cloud infrastructure and/or SaaS/PaaS services Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development
• Experience building and operating large-scale systems in the Cloud
• Solid understanding of basic systems operations (disk, network, operating systems, etc)
• A self starter with the ability to work effectively in teams
• Proficiency in Java, Scala, C/C++, Go or other statically typed languages

What Gives You An Edge

• In-depth familiarity with the JVM
• A strong background in distributed storage systems or databases
• Experience/knowledge with public clouds (AWS, Azure or GCP), Kubenetes and micro services.
• Interest in evangelism (giving talks at tech conferences, writing blog posts evangelizing Kafka)
• Experience working on multi-region databases or data storage

Come As You Are

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