Senior Software Engineer II
Role Overview
This senior-level role involves architecting, designing, and developing highly scalable backend services for a monetization platform that handles usage-based billing and pricing in the cloud. You will work on business-critical flows from ideation to completion, collaborating with product managers and engineering teams to build accurate, reliable systems that power Confluent's revenue globally. The position requires hands-on work with distributed systems in a fast-paced, agile environment, focusing on operational excellence and meeting availability SLAs.
Perks & Benefits
The job is fully remote, likely with flexible time zones given the global team and markets, and emphasizes a collaborative, ego-free culture that values honesty, empathy, and teamwork. Career growth is supported through opportunities to work on emerging technologies and business-critical projects, with a focus on learning and adapting in an innovative startup environment. The company promotes diversity and inclusion, ensuring a workplace where everyone can lead and grow, and offers a dynamic, fast-paced setting that challenges employees to build impactful solutions.
Full Job Description
We’re not just building better tech. We’re rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real-time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them.
It takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together.
One Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.
About the team:
The Monetization Platform team sits at the heart of Confluent’s business strategy, enabling the company to grow by monetizing products and features across Confluent Cloud - a fully managed multi-cloud solution. Our mission is to build a flexible, accurate, performant, and robust monetization platform responsible for supporting flexible pricing and payments, on-demand bill generation, etc. allowing Confluent to define and sell products globally.
In this role, you will build accurate, reliable, scalable, and functionally rich systems in the cloud to support usage-based billing and pricing in the cloud that powers Confluentâs revenue across all products and global markets. You will get an opportunity to work on business-critical flows from ideation to completion by closely collaborating with Product Managers, different engineering and business teams.
If You Are:
Smart, humble, and empathetic
Have a strong sense of teamwork and put teamâs and company's interests first
Driven and excited about the challenges of a fast-paced, innovative software startup environment
A hands-on engineer who enjoys working with loosely coupled distributed systems
Self-driven and highly motivated to deliver a high-quality solution with accuracy
Able to work in an agile environment and adapt to changing business requirements
Believe in test-driven development
Excited about learning and adapting to emerging new technologies
Enjoy and take pride in working on projects to successful completion involving different technologies and systems
Have a high bar when working with production systems
What We're Looking For:
At least 8 years of relevant experience
Experience in architecting, designing, and developing highly scalable and performant backend services
Proficiency in a major programming language e.g.Go,Java, C / C++, etc.
Experience of working on Kubernetes, Public Clouds - AWS, GCP, & Azure
Familiarity with Kafka, Streaming, SaaS platform development
Deep knowledge of designing distributed systems in the Cloud
Experience in running production services in Public Clouds, with a drive towards quality, accuracy, and operational excellence
Strong problem-solving and analytical/critical thinking skills with attention to details
A strategic engineer who constantly thinks of operational improvements of the service to meet availability and performance SLA
Comfortable with troubleshooting technical issues across services and multi-level technical stacks that includes microservices, containers, and virtualization
Bachelors or Master's degree in Computer Science, like discipline, or commensurate work experience
Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.
Come As You Are
Belonging isn’t a perk here. It’s the baseline. We work across time zones and backgrounds, knowing the best ideas come from different perspectives. And we make space for everyone to lead, grow, and challenge what’s possible.
We’re proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. 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 any other classification protected by law.
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