Software Engineer
Role Overview
This is a junior-level Software Engineer role on the API Experience team, focusing on designing, developing, and maintaining APIs, CLI tools, and Terraform Provider for Confluent Cloud. Day-to-day responsibilities include working on API governance, automation, and interface quality to ensure consistency and scalability across hundreds of APIs, directly impacting how customers provision and operate the platform. The role involves collaborating with service teams, participating in code reviews, and contributing to distributed system design in a cloud environment.
Perks & Benefits
The role is remote with a hybrid model requiring office attendance 2 days per week during the first year for onboarding and coaching, likely based in Toronto. It offers a fast-paced, innovative environment with opportunities for career growth through mentorship and project ownership. The company emphasizes a collaborative, inclusive culture with a focus on teamwork, learning, and making an impact in data streaming technology.
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 Role:
The API Experience team defines and scales how Confluent Cloud capabilities are exposed to developers. We partner with service teams to review and standardize APIs for consistency, usability, and long-term maintainability, then build and maintain the Confluent Cloud CLI and Terraform Provider that deliver those capabilities to customers. We focus on governance, automation, and interface quality at scale, creating the frameworks, validation systems, and tooling that allow hundreds of APIs to be exposed safely and consistently without slowing product velocity. As a member of this team, you will work at the intersection of API design, developer tooling, and platform architecture, directly influencing how customers provision, configure, and operate Confluent Cloud.
Tech in Toronto! Toronto is an early career engineer hub for Confluent. Your role will be
a hybrid working model that introduces you to Confluent's culture and enables faster
learning, onboarding, and coaching.
During the first year of employment, all Software Engineers globally will be required to participate in the SWE Onboarding program and go into their Confluent office 2 days per week.
What You Will Do:
To design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve software that will touch production and have a customer-facing impact
Follow best practices for software development and participate in code reviews
Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables
Help build the next generation Kafka by continuing to push the boundaries of distributed system design
What You Will Bring:
Pursuing a Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, Math, or a related technical field with a graduation date between December 2023 - January 2026
Self-motivated and able to drive projects with mentorship and project requirements
Ability to work effectively in teams and strong verbal and written communication skills
Good knowledge of data structures and algorithms and are proficient in at least one of these languages: Java/Scala, C, C++, GoSmart, humble, and empathetic
Driven and excited about the challenges of a fast-paced, innovative, and quickly growing software development environment
Interested in building large-scale distributed systems in the cloud and are excited to make an impact
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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