Senior Software Engineer - Infrastructure

About the Role:

We are a team of passionate engineers who love solving complex distributed systems and infrastructure problems. We are building Kora from the ground up to be a true managed service for clients who demand high levels of availability and performance at the lowest cost of ownership. In this role, you will be working on building a highly available, performant, reliable, durable, scalable, and multi-tenant storage engine for Kora.

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.

What You Will Do:

• Build the software underpinning the mission-critical Confluent Cloud storage engine. You will play a crucial role in designing, developing and operationalizing high performance, scalable, reliable and resilient systems.
• Independently drive execution of software projects to deliver complex projects in production with a focus on quality.
• Identify root causes, and get beyond treating symptoms - motivated to dig deep and solve hard problems
• Troubleshoot issues and improve operations for complex technical stack that spans all the 3 clouds.
• Have a strong sense of teamwork and be able to make decisions which benefit the team and company.
• Customer focused - making customers more successful by taking on their most challenging problems motivates you.

What You Will Bring:

• BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience
• 2+ years of relevant cloud infrastructure/cloud networking experience
• 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:

• A strong background in distributed storage systems or databases
• Experience in the areas of resource management and QoS
• Experience/knowledge with public clouds (AWS, Azure or GCP)
• Interest in evangelism (giving talks at tech conferences, writing blog posts evangelizing Kafka)