Senior Software Engineer II, Kora Compute
Role Overview
The Kora team solves distributed-systems and infrastructure problems.
Kora is being built as a managed service for customers requiring high availability, performance, and low total cost of ownership.
The role builds Kora's highly available, reliable, secure, scalable, multi-tenant compute layer.
The engineer drives technical solutions end to end with the team and key stakeholders.
Key Skills for This Role
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About Confluent
Confluent develops a data-streaming platform that enables near-real-time information movement and response.
About the Role
The Kora team solves distributed-systems and infrastructure problems.
Kora is being built as a managed service for customers requiring high availability, performance, and low total cost of ownership.
The role builds Kora's highly available, reliable, secure, scalable, multi-tenant compute layer.
The engineer drives technical solutions end to end with the team and key stakeholders.
What You Will Do
- Deliver complex production projects with a focus on quality.
- Focus on solving customers' most challenging problems.
- Make decisions that benefit the team and company.
- Identify root causes and solve hard problems rather than treating symptoms.
What You Will Bring
- Bachelor's, master's, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
- At least 4 years of relevant cloud infrastructure or cloud networking experience.
- Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development.
- Experience building and operating large-scale cloud systems.
- Understanding of systems operations including disk, network, and operating systems.
- Ability to work effectively in teams.
- Proficiency in Java, Scala, C/C++, Go, or another statically typed language.
What Gives You an Edge
- In-depth familiarity with the JVM.
- Background in distributed storage systems or databases.
- Experience in resource management and QoS.
- Knowledge of public clouds including AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Interest in evangelism through conference talks or blog posts about Kafka.
- Experience working on databases or data storage.
Compensation
- Compensation range: CA$179.2K to CA$210.6K.
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