Confluent - Principal Engineer

To realize Confluent’s enormous potential, we are looking for a Principal Engineer to join our Traffic team which is responsible for building and managing the networking fabric of Confluent Cloud. Cloud networking is a strategic investment area for Confluent with the potential to impact the company’s top and bottom line. The network platform powers both customer connectivity as well as internal connectivity spanning thousands of Kubernetes clusters across all regions in AWS, Azure, and GCP.
We are looking for someone with an interest in building large-scale distributed systems, with a focus on building and managing network data planes for containerized workloads in the cloud. The ideal candidate would be passionate about network data plane performance, scale, cost optimizations, and building robust software.
What you will do:

Build the software underpinning the mission-critical Confluent Cloud network data plane platform. You will play a crucial role in architecting, designing, developing and operationalizing high performance, scalable, reliable and resilient systems.

Deliver high impact to the business by driving important technical initiatives in areas comprising (but not limited to) networking, cloud infrastructure, and multi-tenancy.

Independently drive architecture, roadmap, execution of software projects as well as technically lead a team of engineers to deliver impact in production with a focus on quality.

Engage with product and cloud providers to innovate and solve business problems using technical input.

Build upon open source software and engage with the upstream community to deliver business impact.

Troubleshoot issues and improve ops for complex technical stack that spans all the 3 clouds and includes microservices, containers, and virtualization.

This job can be performed from anywhere in the US