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Design, build, and operate secure, reliable, scalable backend services in a cloud-native environment with end-to-end ownership. | 2-5 years building distributed backend systems, proficiency in Go/Java/C++, cloud and Kubernetes experience preferred. | Introduction At IBM Software, we transform client challenges into solutions. Building the world’s leading AI-powered, cloud-native products that shape the future of business and society. Our legacy of innovation creates endless opportunities for IBMers to learn, grow, and make an impact on a global scale. Working in Software means joining a team fueled by curiosity and collaboration. You’ll work with diverse technologies, partners, and industries to design, develop, and deliver solutions that power digital transformation. With a culture that values innovation, growth, and continuous learning, IBM Software places you at the heart of IBM’s product and technology landscape. Here, you’ll have the tools and opportunities to advance your career while creating software that changes the world. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. We put information in motion, streaming in near real time so organizations can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them. Your Role And Responsibilities To realize Confluent’s enormous potential, we are looking for software engineers, at various levels, to grow 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 control plane area in the Traffic team builds and operates Confluent Cloud’s networking foundation, providing APIs and workflows to create and manage networking resources while improving platform velocity, resiliency, and efficiency
We are looking for someone with an interest in building large-scale distributed systems, with a focus on building and managing core platform services that power Confluent Cloud Networking
 What You Will Do • Design, build, and operate backend services that are secure, reliable, and scalable in a cloud-native environment. • Own features and projects end to end: requirements, design, implementation, testing, rollout, and ongoing improvements. • Work with distributed systems and microservices, with a focus on performance, resiliency, and clear API contracts. • Contribute to service reliability and operations, including monitoring, alerting, and on-call participation where applicable. • Collaborate with partner teams on architecture, data modeling, and integration points across Confluent’s platform. • Write clean, well-tested, and well-documented code, and participate in code reviews that raise the bar for the team. • Help improve engineering practices, tools, and automation to make it easier and safer to ship code. • Contribute to a healthy team culture through clear communication, inclusive collaboration, and a willingness to learn and teach. Preferred Education Master's Degree Required Technical And Professional Expertise • 2-5 years of experience building distributed, highly available backend systems in production; experience with cloud infrastructure is a strong plus. • Hands-on experience designing and operating large-scale services with clear API contracts and end-to-end lifecycle ownership. • Solid systems-level understanding of networking, OS, and storage tradeoffs relevant to backend infrastructure. • Proficiency in at least one programming language, such as Go, Java, or C++, with the ability to work effectively in others as needed • Experience with public cloud and Kubernetes/containerized environments. • A self-starter with the ability to work effectively in teams • BS, MS in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience Preferred Technical And Professional Experience • A networking background combined with your software engineering experience

Design, build, and operate secure, scalable backend services in a cloud-native environment. | 2-5 years backend distributed systems experience, proficiency in Go/Java/C++, cloud and Kubernetes knowledge preferred. | Introduction At IBM Software, we transform client challenges into solutions. Building the world’s leading AI-powered, cloud-native products that shape the future of business and society. Our legacy of innovation creates endless opportunities for IBMers to learn, grow, and make an impact on a global scale. Working in Software means joining a team fueled by curiosity and collaboration. You’ll work with diverse technologies, partners, and industries to design, develop, and deliver solutions that power digital transformation. With a culture that values innovation, growth, and continuous learning, IBM Software places you at the heart of IBM’s product and technology landscape. Here, you’ll have the tools and opportunities to advance your career while creating software that changes the world. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. We put information in motion, streaming in near real time so organizations can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them. Your Role And Responsibilities To realize Confluent’s enormous potential, we are looking for software engineers, at various levels, to grow 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 control plane area in the Traffic team builds and operates Confluent Cloud’s networking foundation, providing APIs and workflows to create and manage networking resources while improving platform velocity, resiliency, and efficiency
We are looking for someone with an interest in building large-scale distributed systems, with a focus on building and managing core platform services that power Confluent Cloud Networking
 What You Will Do • Design, build, and operate backend services that are secure, reliable, and scalable in a cloud-native environment. • Own features and projects end to end: requirements, design, implementation, testing, rollout, and ongoing improvements. • Work with distributed systems and microservices, with a focus on performance, resiliency, and clear API contracts. • Contribute to service reliability and operations, including monitoring, alerting, and on-call participation where applicable. • Collaborate with partner teams on architecture, data modeling, and integration points across Confluent’s platform. • Write clean, well-tested, and well-documented code, and participate in code reviews that raise the bar for the team. • Help improve engineering practices, tools, and automation to make it easier and safer to ship code. • Contribute to a healthy team culture through clear communication, inclusive collaboration, and a willingness to learn and teach. Preferred Education Master's Degree Required Technical And Professional Expertise • 2-5 years of experience building distributed, highly available backend systems in production; experience with cloud infrastructure is a strong plus. • Hands-on experience designing and operating large-scale services with clear API contracts and end-to-end lifecycle ownership. • Solid systems-level understanding of networking, OS, and storage tradeoffs relevant to backend infrastructure. • Proficiency in at least one programming language, such as Go, Java, or C++, with the ability to work effectively in others as needed • Experience with public cloud and Kubernetes/containerized environments. • A self-starter with the ability to work effectively in teams • BS, MS in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience Preferred Technical And Professional Experience • A networking background combined with your software engineering experience

Design and implement complex backend cloud-native services, ensure reliability and scalability, lead projects end-to-end, and mentor engineers. | 4+ years backend production experience, strong programming skills (Python, Go, Java, etc.), cloud and container orchestration expertise, technical leadership, and strong communication. | Introduction At IBM Software, we transform client challenges into solutions. Building the world’s leading AI-powered, cloud-native products that shape the future of business and society. Our legacy of innovation creates endless opportunities for IBMers to learn, grow, and make an impact on a global scale. Working in Software means joining a team fueled by curiosity and collaboration. You’ll work with diverse technologies, partners, and industries to design, develop, and deliver solutions that power digital transformation. With a culture that values innovation, growth, and continuous learning, IBM Software places you at the heart of IBM’s product and technology landscape. Here, you’ll have the tools and opportunities to advance your career while creating software that changes the world. Your Role And Responsibilities Confluent is pioneering a fundamentally new category of data infrastructure focused on data in motion. Have you ever found a new favorite series on Netflix, picked up groceries curbside at Walmart, or paid for something using Square? That’s the power of data in motion in action—giving organizations instant access to the massive amounts of data that is constantly flowing throughout their business. At Confluent, we’re building the foundational platform for this new paradigm of data infrastructure. Our cloud-native offering is designed to be the intelligent connective tissue enabling real-time data, from multiple sources, to constantly stream across the organization. With Confluent, organizations can create a central nervous system to innovate and win in a digital-first world. We’re looking for self-motivated team members who crave a challenge and feel energized to roll up their sleeves and help realize Confluent’s enormous potential. Chart your own path and take healthy risks as we solve big problems together. We value having diverse teams and want you to grow as we grow—whether you’re just starting out in your career or managing a large team, you’ll be amazed at the magnitude of your impact. About The Role The next big goal for Confluent is to make it as easy as possible for anyone to use Confluent’s products, including Kafka, to build their next killer streaming application. We are at the beginning of this journey and are looking for great engineers to come join our world-class team that is passionate about building and running large-scale, multi-tenant distributed systems for customers that expect a very high level of availability. Backend engineers at Confluent work on a set of diverse and complex challenges such as building foundational cloud frameworks and services that power all components of the platform in the Cloud. We are building a new multi-tenant, multi-cloud, polyglot, cloud native compute substrate to enable new business opportunities across Confluent Cloud (including Connect, Apache Flink, Kafka and more) . As a senior software engineer, you think strategically and you help drive end-to-end technical delivery from customer experience to scaling internal operations. You are not confined to the status quo, and you leverage your expertise in Cloud-native, large-scale distributed systems to help take our platform to the next level. You worry about key operational aspects (availability, reliability, performance, monitoring, emergency response, capacity planning, disaster recovery) of our new Compute Platform, and you make sure that we have a highly available, resilient and secure offering that our largest customers can rely on. If you love the hum of big data systems, thinking about how to make them run as smoothly as possible, and want to have a big influence on the architecture plus operational design points of this new product, then you will fit right in. What You Will Do • Own and lead the design and implementation of complex backend services and systems in a cloud-native, microservices-based environment. • Make architecture and technical decisions that balance reliability, scalability, performance, and operability, and clearly communicate the tradeoffs. • Drive projects end to end: from requirements and design through implementation, rollout, and ongoing operation in production. • Improve service reliability and operations by defining SLOs/SLAs, strengthening observability, and participating in on call as needed. • Collaborate across teams to define APIs, integration points, and data models that keep the platform coherent and evolvable. • Identify and drive platform and productivity improvements (tooling, automation, process) that raise the bar for the broader engineering organization. • Mentor and support other engineers through code reviews, design reviews, and technical guidance, helping grow the team’s capabilities. • Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement, inclusive collaboration, and high technical standards. Preferred Education Master's Degree Required Technical And Professional Expertise • 4+ years industry experience designing, building, and supporting backend systems in production with a solid grasp on good software engineering practices such as code reviews, deep focus on quality, and documentation • Strong knowledge of Python runtime environments (virtual environments, package management, and interpreter configurations). • Strong programming and algorithmic skills. Proficiency in a major programming language, e.g. Python, Go, C / C++, Java, etc. • Strong experience running services in a public cloud (AWS, GCP, or Azure), including containers and orchestration (for example, Docker, Kubernetes) and modern cloud native technologies. • Expertise in other Language Runtimes / VMs (JVM/WASM, etc.) a big plus. • A track record of technical leadership: driving projects, influencing architecture, and coordinating work across multiple engineers or teams. • Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to align stakeholders, explain complex ideas clearly, and drive decisions. • Experience with observability and operational excellence (metrics, logging, tracing, incident response, and postmortems).

Design, develop, and deliver scalable, reliable cloud-native distributed systems and infrastructure solutions focused on Kafka event streaming platform. | Requires strong background in distributed systems, proficiency in JVM languages, cloud infrastructure experience, and ability to deliver complex production projects. | Introduction At IBM Software, we transform client challenges into solutions. Building the world’s leading AI-powered, cloud-native products that shape the future of business and society. Our legacy of innovation creates endless opportunities for IBMers to learn, grow, and make an impact on a global scale. Working in Software means joining a team fueled by curiosity and collaboration. You’ll work with diverse technologies, partners, and industries to design, develop, and deliver solutions that power digital transformation. With a culture that values innovation, growth, and continuous learning, IBM Software places you at the heart of IBM’s product and technology landscape. Here, you’ll have the tools and opportunities to advance your career while creating software that changes the world. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. We put information in motion, streaming in near real time so organizations can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them. Your Role And Responsibilities You already know the power of our technology. You’ve helped build the platform that’s reshaping how the world uses data. But Confluent isn’t just about technology. It’s about opportunity, yours included. Growth here doesn’t require a new company, just a new challenge. We believe the best way to keep building something great is to keep great people. Because opportunity doesn’t just knock once. It grows with you. Whether you’re ready for a new challenge, a different perspective, or a bigger impact, there’s a path forward here. One Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform. 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 highly available, reliable, secure, scalable, and multi-tenant Kora's compute layer. 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. Here are examples of some of the challenges we've taken on in recent years: Kora: A Cloud-Native Event Streaming Platform For Kafka Apache Kafka's Next-Gen Rebalance Protocol: Towards More Stable and Scalable Consumer Groups From On-Prem to Cloud-Native: Multi-Tenancy in Confluent Cloud Speed, Scale, Storage: Our Journey from Apache Kafka to Performance in Confluent Cloud Benchmarking Confluent Cloud What You Will Do • Driven and excited about challenges of delivering complex projects in production with a focus on quality • Customer focused - making customers more successful by taking on their most challenging problems motivates you • Have a strong sense of teamwork and able to make decisions which benefit the team and company • Identify root causes, and get beyond treating symptoms - motivated to dig deep and solve hard problems What Gives You An Edge • In-depth familiarity with the JVM • 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) • Experience working on databases or data storage Preferred Education Master's Degree Required Technical And Professional Expertise • BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience • Proficiency in Java, Scala, C/C++, Go or other statically typed languages • 4+ 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) Preferred Technical And Professional Experience • Leading-Edge Technologies: Experience with designing, developing, and delivering software solutions using leading-edge technologies, including back-end and front-end development, and DevOps engineering. • Agile Collaboration: Experience working in an Agile environment, collaborating with stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver high-quality software solutions. • Automated CI/CD Pipelines: Experience contributing to automated CI/CD pipelines, ensuring seamless integration and delivery of software solutions.

Design and implement complex backend services and systems in a cloud-native, microservices environment. | 4+ years backend production experience, strong programming skills, cloud and container orchestration experience, technical leadership, and operational excellence. | Introduction At IBM Software, we transform client challenges into solutions. Building the world’s leading AI-powered, cloud-native products that shape the future of business and society. Our legacy of innovation creates endless opportunities for IBMers to learn, grow, and make an impact on a global scale. Working in Software means joining a team fueled by curiosity and collaboration. You’ll work with diverse technologies, partners, and industries to design, develop, and deliver solutions that power digital transformation. With a culture that values innovation, growth, and continuous learning, IBM Software places you at the heart of IBM’s product and technology landscape. Here, you’ll have the tools and opportunities to advance your career while creating software that changes the world. Your Role And Responsibilities Confluent is pioneering a fundamentally new category of data infrastructure focused on data in motion. Have you ever found a new favorite series on Netflix, picked up groceries curbside at Walmart, or paid for something using Square? That’s the power of data in motion in action—giving organizations instant access to the massive amounts of data that is constantly flowing throughout their business. At Confluent, we’re building the foundational platform for this new paradigm of data infrastructure. Our cloud-native offering is designed to be the intelligent connective tissue enabling real-time data, from multiple sources, to constantly stream across the organization. With Confluent, organizations can create a central nervous system to innovate and win in a digital-first world. We’re looking for self-motivated team members who crave a challenge and feel energized to roll up their sleeves and help realize Confluent’s enormous potential. Chart your own path and take healthy risks as we solve big problems together. We value having diverse teams and want you to grow as we grow—whether you’re just starting out in your career or managing a large team, you’ll be amazed at the magnitude of your impact. About The Role The next big goal for Confluent is to make it as easy as possible for anyone to use Confluent’s products, including Kafka, to build their next killer streaming application. We are at the beginning of this journey and are looking for great engineers to come join our world-class team that is passionate about building and running large-scale, multi-tenant distributed systems for customers that expect a very high level of availability. Backend engineers at Confluent work on a set of diverse and complex challenges such as building foundational cloud frameworks and services that power all components of the platform in the Cloud. We are building a new multi-tenant, multi-cloud, polyglot, cloud native compute substrate to enable new business opportunities across Confluent Cloud (including Connect, Apache Flink, Kafka and more) . As a senior software engineer, you think strategically and you help drive end-to-end technical delivery from customer experience to scaling internal operations. You are not confined to the status quo, and you leverage your expertise in Cloud-native, large-scale distributed systems to help take our platform to the next level. You worry about key operational aspects (availability, reliability, performance, monitoring, emergency response, capacity planning, disaster recovery) of our new Compute Platform, and you make sure that we have a highly available, resilient and secure offering that our largest customers can rely on. If you love the hum of big data systems, thinking about how to make them run as smoothly as possible, and want to have a big influence on the architecture plus operational design points of this new product, then you will fit right in. What You Will Do • Own and lead the design and implementation of complex backend services and systems in a cloud-native, microservices-based environment. • Make architecture and technical decisions that balance reliability, scalability, performance, and operability, and clearly communicate the tradeoffs. • Drive projects end to end: from requirements and design through implementation, rollout, and ongoing operation in production. • Improve service reliability and operations by defining SLOs/SLAs, strengthening observability, and participating in on call as needed. • Collaborate across teams to define APIs, integration points, and data models that keep the platform coherent and evolvable. • Identify and drive platform and productivity improvements (tooling, automation, process) that raise the bar for the broader engineering organization. • Mentor and support other engineers through code reviews, design reviews, and technical guidance, helping grow the team’s capabilities. • Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement, inclusive collaboration, and high technical standards. Preferred Education Master's Degree Required Technical And Professional Expertise • 4+ years industry experience designing, building, and supporting backend systems in production with a solid grasp on good software engineering practices such as code reviews, deep focus on quality, and documentation • Strong knowledge of Python runtime environments (virtual environments, package management, and interpreter configurations). • Strong programming and algorithmic skills. Proficiency in a major programming language, e.g. Python, Go, C / C++, Java, etc. • Strong experience running services in a public cloud (AWS, GCP, or Azure), including containers and orchestration (for example, Docker, Kubernetes) and modern cloud native technologies. • Expertise in other Language Runtimes / VMs (JVM/WASM, etc.) a big plus. • A track record of technical leadership: driving projects, influencing architecture, and coordinating work across multiple engineers or teams. • Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to align stakeholders, explain complex ideas clearly, and drive decisions. • Experience with observability and operational excellence (metrics, logging, tracing, incident response, and postmortems).

Design, implement, and operate complex backend cloud-native services with high availability and scalability. | 4+ years backend development experience, strong programming skills, cloud and container expertise, technical leadership, and operational excellence. | Introduction At IBM Software, we transform client challenges into solutions. Building the world’s leading AI-powered, cloud-native products that shape the future of business and society. Our legacy of innovation creates endless opportunities for IBMers to learn, grow, and make an impact on a global scale. Working in Software means joining a team fueled by curiosity and collaboration. You’ll work with diverse technologies, partners, and industries to design, develop, and deliver solutions that power digital transformation. With a culture that values innovation, growth, and continuous learning, IBM Software places you at the heart of IBM’s product and technology landscape. Here, you’ll have the tools and opportunities to advance your career while creating software that changes the world. Your Role And Responsibilities Confluent is pioneering a fundamentally new category of data infrastructure focused on data in motion. Have you ever found a new favorite series on Netflix, picked up groceries curbside at Walmart, or paid for something using Square? That’s the power of data in motion in action—giving organizations instant access to the massive amounts of data that is constantly flowing throughout their business. At Confluent, we’re building the foundational platform for this new paradigm of data infrastructure. Our cloud-native offering is designed to be the intelligent connective tissue enabling real-time data, from multiple sources, to constantly stream across the organization. With Confluent, organizations can create a central nervous system to innovate and win in a digital-first world. We’re looking for self-motivated team members who crave a challenge and feel energized to roll up their sleeves and help realize Confluent’s enormous potential. Chart your own path and take healthy risks as we solve big problems together. We value having diverse teams and want you to grow as we grow—whether you’re just starting out in your career or managing a large team, you’ll be amazed at the magnitude of your impact. About The Role The next big goal for Confluent is to make it as easy as possible for anyone to use Confluent’s products, including Kafka, to build their next killer streaming application. We are at the beginning of this journey and are looking for great engineers to come join our world-class team that is passionate about building and running large-scale, multi-tenant distributed systems for customers that expect a very high level of availability. Backend engineers at Confluent work on a set of diverse and complex challenges such as building foundational cloud frameworks and services that power all components of the platform in the Cloud. We are building a new multi-tenant, multi-cloud, polyglot, cloud native compute substrate to enable new business opportunities across Confluent Cloud (including Connect, Apache Flink, Kafka and more) . As a senior software engineer, you think strategically and you help drive end-to-end technical delivery from customer experience to scaling internal operations. You are not confined to the status quo, and you leverage your expertise in Cloud-native, large-scale distributed systems to help take our platform to the next level. You worry about key operational aspects (availability, reliability, performance, monitoring, emergency response, capacity planning, disaster recovery) of our new Compute Platform, and you make sure that we have a highly available, resilient and secure offering that our largest customers can rely on. If you love the hum of big data systems, thinking about how to make them run as smoothly as possible, and want to have a big influence on the architecture plus operational design points of this new product, then you will fit right in. What You Will Do • Own and lead the design and implementation of complex backend services and systems in a cloud-native, microservices-based environment. • Make architecture and technical decisions that balance reliability, scalability, performance, and operability, and clearly communicate the tradeoffs. • Drive projects end to end: from requirements and design through implementation, rollout, and ongoing operation in production. • Improve service reliability and operations by defining SLOs/SLAs, strengthening observability, and participating in on call as needed. • Collaborate across teams to define APIs, integration points, and data models that keep the platform coherent and evolvable. • Identify and drive platform and productivity improvements (tooling, automation, process) that raise the bar for the broader engineering organization. • Mentor and support other engineers through code reviews, design reviews, and technical guidance, helping grow the team’s capabilities. • Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement, inclusive collaboration, and high technical standards. Preferred Education Master's Degree Required Technical And Professional Expertise • 4+ years industry experience designing, building, and supporting backend systems in production with a solid grasp on good software engineering practices such as code reviews, deep focus on quality, and documentation • Strong knowledge of Python runtime environments (virtual environments, package management, and interpreter configurations). • Strong programming and algorithmic skills. Proficiency in a major programming language, e.g. Python, Go, C / C++, Java, etc. • Strong experience running services in a public cloud (AWS, GCP, or Azure), including containers and orchestration (for example, Docker, Kubernetes) and modern cloud native technologies. • Expertise in other Language Runtimes / VMs (JVM/WASM, etc.) a big plus. • A track record of technical leadership: driving projects, influencing architecture, and coordinating work across multiple engineers or teams. • Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to align stakeholders, explain complex ideas clearly, and drive decisions. • Experience with observability and operational excellence (metrics, logging, tracing, incident response, and postmortems).

Design, architect, and develop highly available, scalable distributed systems and cloud-native event streaming platform components. | Requires 4+ years in cloud infrastructure, strong distributed systems fundamentals, proficiency in Java or similar languages, and experience building large-scale cloud systems. | Introduction At IBM Software, we transform client challenges into solutions. Building the world’s leading AI-powered, cloud-native products that shape the future of business and society. Our legacy of innovation creates endless opportunities for IBMers to learn, grow, and make an impact on a global scale. Working in Software means joining a team fueled by curiosity and collaboration. You’ll work with diverse technologies, partners, and industries to design, develop, and deliver solutions that power digital transformation. With a culture that values innovation, growth, and continuous learning, IBM Software places you at the heart of IBM’s product and technology landscape. Here, you’ll have the tools and opportunities to advance your career while creating software that changes the world. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. We put information in motion, streaming in near real time so organizations can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them. Your Role And Responsibilities You already know the power of our technology. You’ve helped build the platform that’s reshaping how the world uses data. But Confluent isn’t just about technology. It’s about opportunity, yours included. Growth here doesn’t require a new company, just a new challenge. We believe the best way to keep building something great is to keep great people. Because opportunity doesn’t just knock once. It grows with you. Whether you’re ready for a new challenge, a different perspective, or a bigger impact, there’s a path forward here. One Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform. 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 highly available, reliable, secure, scalable, and multi-tenant Kora's compute layer. 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. Here are examples of some of the challenges we've taken on in recent years: Kora: A Cloud-Native Event Streaming Platform For Kafka Apache Kafka's Next-Gen Rebalance Protocol: Towards More Stable and Scalable Consumer Groups From On-Prem to Cloud-Native: Multi-Tenancy in Confluent Cloud Speed, Scale, Storage: Our Journey from Apache Kafka to Performance in Confluent Cloud Benchmarking Confluent Cloud What You Will Do • Driven and excited about challenges of delivering complex projects in production with a focus on quality • Customer focused - making customers more successful by taking on their most challenging problems motivates you • Have a strong sense of teamwork and able to make decisions which benefit the team and company • Identify root causes, and get beyond treating symptoms - motivated to dig deep and solve hard problems What Gives You An Edge • In-depth familiarity with the JVM • 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) • Experience working on databases or data storage Preferred Education Master's Degree Required Technical And Professional Expertise • BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience • Proficiency in Java, Scala, C/C++, Go or other statically typed languages • 4+ 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) Preferred Technical And Professional Experience • Leading-Edge Technologies: Experience with designing, developing, and delivering software solutions using leading-edge technologies, including back-end and front-end development, and DevOps engineering. • Agile Collaboration: Experience working in an Agile environment, collaborating with stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver high-quality software solutions. • Automated CI/CD Pipelines: Experience contributing to automated CI/CD pipelines, ensuring seamless integration and delivery of software solutions.

Design and maintain cloud-native infrastructure services and ensure platform reliability and scalability. | Strong programming in Go/Java/Python, Kubernetes experience, cloud platforms, and automation expertise. | Introduction At IBM Software, we transform client challenges into solutions. Building the world’s leading AI-powered, cloud-native products that shape the future of business and society. Our legacy of innovation creates endless opportunities for IBMers to learn, grow, and make an impact on a global scale. Working in Software means joining a team fueled by curiosity and collaboration. You’ll work with diverse technologies, partners, and industries to design, develop, and deliver solutions that power digital transformation. With a culture that values innovation, growth, and continuous learning, IBM Software places you at the heart of IBM’s product and technology landscape. Here, you’ll have the tools and opportunities to advance your career while creating software that changes the world. Your Role And Responsibilities With Confluent, organizations can harness the full power of continuously flowing data to innovate and win in the modern digital world. We have a purpose that drives us to do better every day - we're creating an entirely new category within data infrastructure - data streaming. This technology will allow every organization to create experiences and use the power of data in ways that profoundly impact the way we all live. This impact is our purpose and drives us to do better every day. One Confluent. One team. One Data Streaming Platform. Data Connects Us. The Confluent Cloud Platform based on Apache Kafka is the leading Cloud Native Platform as a Service for streaming data infrastructure, but this is just the beginning. We are building a PaaS, enabling customers around the globe to deliver streaming applications. What You Will Do • Design, build, and evolve internal infrastructure services written in Go, often as Kubernetes operators, that power the core platform behind Confluent Cloud • Own the systems that make cloud infrastructure secure, scalable, observable, and reliable, using GitOps, Terraform, Prometheus, Grafana, and a strong foundation in Linux, networking, and public cloud • Collaborate with engineers across Confluent to enable fast, safe, and autonomous deployment of services through shared platform tooling and best practices • Take shared responsibility for the full lifecycle of our infrastructure: availability, performance, monitoring, incident response, and capacity planning • Work on systems at scale, across tens of thousands of instances and multiple regions, with a focus on smooth, fast, and safe operations • Influence the architecture and operational strategy behind the critical infrastructure that supports all of Confluent’s cloud services Participate in a 8-hour, follow-the-sun on-call rotation. Preferred Education Master's Degree Required Technical And Professional Expertise • Strong programming skills with the ability to read, debug, and evolve existing code (Go, Java, or Python) Deep understanding of systems internals (filesystems, memory, networking, kernel behavior) and large-scale system performance • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production and modern cloud-native ecosystems, including containers and public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) • Expertise in automation and reliability practices—GitOps, Terraform, CI/CD, observability—and experience diagnosing and improving complex systems • Strong collaboration, communication, and ownership mindset, with the ability to operate independently in a distributed team Preferred Technical And Professional Experience • Strong programming skills with the ability to read, debug, and evolve existing code (Go, Java, or Python) Deep understanding of systems internals (filesystems, memory, networking, kernel behavior) and large-scale system performance • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production and modern cloud-native ecosystems, including containers and public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) • Expertise in automation and reliability practices—GitOps, Terraform, CI/CD, observability—and experience diagnosing and improving complex systems

Design, build, and maintain cloud infrastructure services and ensure their reliability and scalability. | Strong programming skills in Go, Java, or Python, deep understanding of systems internals, Kubernetes experience, and expertise in automation and reliability practices. | Introduction At IBM Software, we transform client challenges into solutions. Building the world’s leading AI-powered, cloud-native products that shape the future of business and society. Our legacy of innovation creates endless opportunities for IBMers to learn, grow, and make an impact on a global scale. Working in Software means joining a team fueled by curiosity and collaboration. You’ll work with diverse technologies, partners, and industries to design, develop, and deliver solutions that power digital transformation. With a culture that values innovation, growth, and continuous learning, IBM Software places you at the heart of IBM’s product and technology landscape. Here, you’ll have the tools and opportunities to advance your career while creating software that changes the world. Your Role And Responsibilities With Confluent, organizations can harness the full power of continuously flowing data to innovate and win in the modern digital world. We have a purpose that drives us to do better every day - we're creating an entirely new category within data infrastructure - data streaming. This technology will allow every organization to create experiences and use the power of data in ways that profoundly impact the way we all live. This impact is our purpose and drives us to do better every day. One Confluent. One team. One Data Streaming Platform. Data Connects Us. The Confluent Cloud Platform based on Apache Kafka is the leading Cloud Native Platform as a Service for streaming data infrastructure, but this is just the beginning. We are building a PaaS, enabling customers around the globe to deliver streaming applications. What You Will Do • Design, build, and evolve internal infrastructure services written in Go, often as Kubernetes operators, that power the core platform behind Confluent Cloud • Own the systems that make cloud infrastructure secure, scalable, observable, and reliable, using GitOps, Terraform, Prometheus, Grafana, and a strong foundation in Linux, networking, and public cloud • Collaborate with engineers across Confluent to enable fast, safe, and autonomous deployment of services through shared platform tooling and best practices • Take shared responsibility for the full lifecycle of our infrastructure: availability, performance, monitoring, incident response, and capacity planning • Work on systems at scale, across tens of thousands of instances and multiple regions, with a focus on smooth, fast, and safe operations • Influence the architecture and operational strategy behind the critical infrastructure that supports all of Confluent’s cloud services Participate in a 8-hour, follow-the-sun on-call rotation. Preferred Education Master's Degree Required Technical And Professional Expertise • Strong programming skills with the ability to read, debug, and evolve existing code (Go, Java, or Python) Deep understanding of systems internals (filesystems, memory, networking, kernel behavior) and large-scale system performance • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production and modern cloud-native ecosystems, including containers and public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) • Expertise in automation and reliability practices—GitOps, Terraform, CI/CD, observability—and experience diagnosing and improving complex systems • Strong collaboration, communication, and ownership mindset, with the ability to operate independently in a distributed team Preferred Technical And Professional Experience • Strong programming skills with the ability to read, debug, and evolve existing code (Go, Java, or Python) Deep understanding of systems internals (filesystems, memory, networking, kernel behavior) and large-scale system performance • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production and modern cloud-native ecosystems, including containers and public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) • Expertise in automation and reliability practices—GitOps, Terraform, CI/CD, observability—and experience diagnosing and improving complex systems

Design and develop scalable, reliable cloud-native event streaming platform components. | Senior-level experience in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and proficiency in JVM languages with 4+ years relevant experience. | Introduction At IBM Software, we transform client challenges into solutions. Building the world’s leading AI-powered, cloud-native products that shape the future of business and society. Our legacy of innovation creates endless opportunities for IBMers to learn, grow, and make an impact on a global scale. Working in Software means joining a team fueled by curiosity and collaboration. You’ll work with diverse technologies, partners, and industries to design, develop, and deliver solutions that power digital transformation. With a culture that values innovation, growth, and continuous learning, IBM Software places you at the heart of IBM’s product and technology landscape. Here, you’ll have the tools and opportunities to advance your career while creating software that changes the world. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. We put information in motion, streaming in near real time so organizations can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them. Your Role And Responsibilities You already know the power of our technology. You’ve helped build the platform that’s reshaping how the world uses data. But Confluent isn’t just about technology. It’s about opportunity, yours included. Growth here doesn’t require a new company, just a new challenge. We believe the best way to keep building something great is to keep great people. Because opportunity doesn’t just knock once. It grows with you. Whether you’re ready for a new challenge, a different perspective, or a bigger impact, there’s a path forward here. One Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform. 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 highly available, reliable, secure, scalable, and multi-tenant Kora's compute layer. 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. Here are examples of some of the challenges we've taken on in recent years: Kora: A Cloud-Native Event Streaming Platform For Kafka Apache Kafka's Next-Gen Rebalance Protocol: Towards More Stable and Scalable Consumer Groups From On-Prem to Cloud-Native: Multi-Tenancy in Confluent Cloud Speed, Scale, Storage: Our Journey from Apache Kafka to Performance in Confluent Cloud Benchmarking Confluent Cloud What You Will Do • Driven and excited about challenges of delivering complex projects in production with a focus on quality • Customer focused - making customers more successful by taking on their most challenging problems motivates you • Have a strong sense of teamwork and able to make decisions which benefit the team and company • Identify root causes, and get beyond treating symptoms - motivated to dig deep and solve hard problems What Gives You An Edge • In-depth familiarity with the JVM • 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) • Experience working on databases or data storage Preferred Education Master's Degree Required Technical And Professional Expertise • BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience • Proficiency in Java, Scala, C/C++, Go or other statically typed languages • 4+ 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) Preferred Technical And Professional Experience • Leading-Edge Technologies: Experience with designing, developing, and delivering software solutions using leading-edge technologies, including back-end and front-end development, and DevOps engineering. • Agile Collaboration: Experience working in an Agile environment, collaborating with stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver high-quality software solutions. • Automated CI/CD Pipelines: Experience contributing to automated CI/CD pipelines, ensuring seamless integration and delivery of software solutions.

Design and build cloud infrastructure services focusing on scalability, security, and reliability using modern cloud-native technologies. | Strong programming skills in Go, Java, or Python, deep understanding of systems internals, Kubernetes experience, and expertise in automation and reliability practices. | Introduction At IBM Software, we transform client challenges into solutions. Building the world’s leading AI-powered, cloud-native products that shape the future of business and society. Our legacy of innovation creates endless opportunities for IBMers to learn, grow, and make an impact on a global scale. Working in Software means joining a team fueled by curiosity and collaboration. You’ll work with diverse technologies, partners, and industries to design, develop, and deliver solutions that power digital transformation. With a culture that values innovation, growth, and continuous learning, IBM Software places you at the heart of IBM’s product and technology landscape. Here, you’ll have the tools and opportunities to advance your career while creating software that changes the world. Your Role And Responsibilities With Confluent, organizations can harness the full power of continuously flowing data to innovate and win in the modern digital world. We have a purpose that drives us to do better every day - we're creating an entirely new category within data infrastructure - data streaming. This technology will allow every organization to create experiences and use the power of data in ways that profoundly impact the way we all live. This impact is our purpose and drives us to do better every day. One Confluent. One team. One Data Streaming Platform. Data Connects Us. The Confluent Cloud Platform based on Apache Kafka is the leading Cloud Native Platform as a Service for streaming data infrastructure, but this is just the beginning. We are building a PaaS, enabling customers around the globe to deliver streaming applications. What You Will Do • Design, build, and evolve internal infrastructure services written in Go, often as Kubernetes operators, that power the core platform behind Confluent Cloud • Own the systems that make cloud infrastructure secure, scalable, observable, and reliable, using GitOps, Terraform, Prometheus, Grafana, and a strong foundation in Linux, networking, and public cloud • Collaborate with engineers across Confluent to enable fast, safe, and autonomous deployment of services through shared platform tooling and best practices • Take shared responsibility for the full lifecycle of our infrastructure: availability, performance, monitoring, incident response, and capacity planning • Work on systems at scale, across tens of thousands of instances and multiple regions, with a focus on smooth, fast, and safe operations • Influence the architecture and operational strategy behind the critical infrastructure that supports all of Confluent’s cloud services Participate in a 8-hour, follow-the-sun on-call rotation. Preferred Education Master's Degree Required Technical And Professional Expertise • Strong programming skills with the ability to read, debug, and evolve existing code (Go, Java, or Python) Deep understanding of systems internals (filesystems, memory, networking, kernel behavior) and large-scale system performance • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production and modern cloud-native ecosystems, including containers and public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) • Expertise in automation and reliability practices—GitOps, Terraform, CI/CD, observability—and experience diagnosing and improving complex systems • Strong collaboration, communication, and ownership mindset, with the ability to operate independently in a distributed team Preferred Technical And Professional Experience • Strong programming skills with the ability to read, debug, and evolve existing code (Go, Java, or Python) Deep understanding of systems internals (filesystems, memory, networking, kernel behavior) and large-scale system performance • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production and modern cloud-native ecosystems, including containers and public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) • Expertise in automation and reliability practices—GitOps, Terraform, CI/CD, observability—and experience diagnosing and improving complex systems

Design and maintain cloud-native infrastructure services and ensure their reliability and scalability. | Requires strong programming in Go/Java/Python, deep systems internals knowledge, Kubernetes and cloud-native experience, and automation expertise. | Introduction At IBM Software, we transform client challenges into solutions. Building the world’s leading AI-powered, cloud-native products that shape the future of business and society. Our legacy of innovation creates endless opportunities for IBMers to learn, grow, and make an impact on a global scale. Working in Software means joining a team fueled by curiosity and collaboration. You’ll work with diverse technologies, partners, and industries to design, develop, and deliver solutions that power digital transformation. With a culture that values innovation, growth, and continuous learning, IBM Software places you at the heart of IBM’s product and technology landscape. Here, you’ll have the tools and opportunities to advance your career while creating software that changes the world. Your Role And Responsibilities With Confluent, organizations can harness the full power of continuously flowing data to innovate and win in the modern digital world. We have a purpose that drives us to do better every day - we're creating an entirely new category within data infrastructure - data streaming. This technology will allow every organization to create experiences and use the power of data in ways that profoundly impact the way we all live. This impact is our purpose and drives us to do better every day. One Confluent. One team. One Data Streaming Platform. Data Connects Us. The Confluent Cloud Platform based on Apache Kafka is the leading Cloud Native Platform as a Service for streaming data infrastructure, but this is just the beginning. We are building a PaaS, enabling customers around the globe to deliver streaming applications. What You Will Do • Design, build, and evolve internal infrastructure services written in Go, often as Kubernetes operators, that power the core platform behind Confluent Cloud • Own the systems that make cloud infrastructure secure, scalable, observable, and reliable, using GitOps, Terraform, Prometheus, Grafana, and a strong foundation in Linux, networking, and public cloud • Collaborate with engineers across Confluent to enable fast, safe, and autonomous deployment of services through shared platform tooling and best practices • Take shared responsibility for the full lifecycle of our infrastructure: availability, performance, monitoring, incident response, and capacity planning • Work on systems at scale, across tens of thousands of instances and multiple regions, with a focus on smooth, fast, and safe operations • Influence the architecture and operational strategy behind the critical infrastructure that supports all of Confluent’s cloud services Participate in a 8-hour, follow-the-sun on-call rotation. Preferred Education Master's Degree Required Technical And Professional Expertise • Strong programming skills with the ability to read, debug, and evolve existing code (Go, Java, or Python) Deep understanding of systems internals (filesystems, memory, networking, kernel behavior) and large-scale system performance • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production and modern cloud-native ecosystems, including containers and public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) • Expertise in automation and reliability practices—GitOps, Terraform, CI/CD, observability—and experience diagnosing and improving complex systems • Strong collaboration, communication, and ownership mindset, with the ability to operate independently in a distributed team Preferred Technical And Professional Experience • Strong programming skills with the ability to read, debug, and evolve existing code (Go, Java, or Python) Deep understanding of systems internals (filesystems, memory, networking, kernel behavior) and large-scale system performance • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production and modern cloud-native ecosystems, including containers and public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) • Expertise in automation and reliability practices—GitOps, Terraform, CI/CD, observability—and experience diagnosing and improving complex systems

Design, architect, and develop scalable, reliable distributed systems and cloud-native event streaming platform components. | Senior-level experience in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, proficiency in Java or similar languages, and strong system operations knowledge. | Introduction At IBM Software, we transform client challenges into solutions. Building the world’s leading AI-powered, cloud-native products that shape the future of business and society. Our legacy of innovation creates endless opportunities for IBMers to learn, grow, and make an impact on a global scale. Working in Software means joining a team fueled by curiosity and collaboration. You’ll work with diverse technologies, partners, and industries to design, develop, and deliver solutions that power digital transformation. With a culture that values innovation, growth, and continuous learning, IBM Software places you at the heart of IBM’s product and technology landscape. Here, you’ll have the tools and opportunities to advance your career while creating software that changes the world. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. We put information in motion, streaming in near real time so organizations can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them. Your Role And Responsibilities You already know the power of our technology. You’ve helped build the platform that’s reshaping how the world uses data. But Confluent isn’t just about technology. It’s about opportunity, yours included. Growth here doesn’t require a new company, just a new challenge. We believe the best way to keep building something great is to keep great people. Because opportunity doesn’t just knock once. It grows with you. Whether you’re ready for a new challenge, a different perspective, or a bigger impact, there’s a path forward here. One Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform. 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 highly available, reliable, secure, scalable, and multi-tenant Kora's compute layer. 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. Here are examples of some of the challenges we've taken on in recent years: Kora: A Cloud-Native Event Streaming Platform For Kafka Apache Kafka's Next-Gen Rebalance Protocol: Towards More Stable and Scalable Consumer Groups From On-Prem to Cloud-Native: Multi-Tenancy in Confluent Cloud Speed, Scale, Storage: Our Journey from Apache Kafka to Performance in Confluent Cloud Benchmarking Confluent Cloud What You Will Do • Driven and excited about challenges of delivering complex projects in production with a focus on quality • Customer focused - making customers more successful by taking on their most challenging problems motivates you • Have a strong sense of teamwork and able to make decisions which benefit the team and company • Identify root causes, and get beyond treating symptoms - motivated to dig deep and solve hard problems What Gives You An Edge • In-depth familiarity with the JVM • 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) • Experience working on databases or data storage Preferred Education Master's Degree Required Technical And Professional Expertise • BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience • Proficiency in Java, Scala, C/C++, Go or other statically typed languages • 4+ 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) Preferred Technical And Professional Experience • Leading-Edge Technologies: Experience with designing, developing, and delivering software solutions using leading-edge technologies, including back-end and front-end development, and DevOps engineering. • Agile Collaboration: Experience working in an Agile environment, collaborating with stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver high-quality software solutions. • Automated CI/CD Pipelines: Experience contributing to automated CI/CD pipelines, ensuring seamless integration and delivery of software solutions.

Design and maintain cloud infrastructure services and ensure platform reliability and scalability. | Strong programming in Go/Java/Python, Kubernetes experience, cloud-native ecosystem knowledge, and automation expertise. | Introduction At IBM Software, we transform client challenges into solutions. Building the world’s leading AI-powered, cloud-native products that shape the future of business and society. Our legacy of innovation creates endless opportunities for IBMers to learn, grow, and make an impact on a global scale. Working in Software means joining a team fueled by curiosity and collaboration. You’ll work with diverse technologies, partners, and industries to design, develop, and deliver solutions that power digital transformation. With a culture that values innovation, growth, and continuous learning, IBM Software places you at the heart of IBM’s product and technology landscape. Here, you’ll have the tools and opportunities to advance your career while creating software that changes the world. Your Role And Responsibilities With Confluent, organizations can harness the full power of continuously flowing data to innovate and win in the modern digital world. We have a purpose that drives us to do better every day - we're creating an entirely new category within data infrastructure - data streaming. This technology will allow every organization to create experiences and use the power of data in ways that profoundly impact the way we all live. This impact is our purpose and drives us to do better every day. One Confluent. One team. One Data Streaming Platform. Data Connects Us. The Confluent Cloud Platform based on Apache Kafka is the leading Cloud Native Platform as a Service for streaming data infrastructure, but this is just the beginning. We are building a PaaS, enabling customers around the globe to deliver streaming applications. What You Will Do • Design, build, and evolve internal infrastructure services written in Go, often as Kubernetes operators, that power the core platform behind Confluent Cloud • Own the systems that make cloud infrastructure secure, scalable, observable, and reliable, using GitOps, Terraform, Prometheus, Grafana, and a strong foundation in Linux, networking, and public cloud • Collaborate with engineers across Confluent to enable fast, safe, and autonomous deployment of services through shared platform tooling and best practices • Take shared responsibility for the full lifecycle of our infrastructure: availability, performance, monitoring, incident response, and capacity planning • Work on systems at scale, across tens of thousands of instances and multiple regions, with a focus on smooth, fast, and safe operations • Influence the architecture and operational strategy behind the critical infrastructure that supports all of Confluent’s cloud services Participate in a 8-hour, follow-the-sun on-call rotation. Preferred Education Master's Degree Required Technical And Professional Expertise • Strong programming skills with the ability to read, debug, and evolve existing code (Go, Java, or Python) Deep understanding of systems internals (filesystems, memory, networking, kernel behavior) and large-scale system performance • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production and modern cloud-native ecosystems, including containers and public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) • Expertise in automation and reliability practices—GitOps, Terraform, CI/CD, observability—and experience diagnosing and improving complex systems • Strong collaboration, communication, and ownership mindset, with the ability to operate independently in a distributed team Preferred Technical And Professional Experience • Strong programming skills with the ability to read, debug, and evolve existing code (Go, Java, or Python) Deep understanding of systems internals (filesystems, memory, networking, kernel behavior) and large-scale system performance • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production and modern cloud-native ecosystems, including containers and public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) • Expertise in automation and reliability practices—GitOps, Terraform, CI/CD, observability—and experience diagnosing and improving complex systems

Design and maintain cloud-native infrastructure services focusing on scalability, reliability, and automation. | Strong programming skills in Go/Java/Python, Kubernetes experience, cloud platforms, automation, and system internals knowledge. | Introduction At IBM Software, we transform client challenges into solutions. Building the world’s leading AI-powered, cloud-native products that shape the future of business and society. Our legacy of innovation creates endless opportunities for IBMers to learn, grow, and make an impact on a global scale. Working in Software means joining a team fueled by curiosity and collaboration. You’ll work with diverse technologies, partners, and industries to design, develop, and deliver solutions that power digital transformation. With a culture that values innovation, growth, and continuous learning, IBM Software places you at the heart of IBM’s product and technology landscape. Here, you’ll have the tools and opportunities to advance your career while creating software that changes the world. Your Role And Responsibilities With Confluent, organizations can harness the full power of continuously flowing data to innovate and win in the modern digital world. We have a purpose that drives us to do better every day - we're creating an entirely new category within data infrastructure - data streaming. This technology will allow every organization to create experiences and use the power of data in ways that profoundly impact the way we all live. This impact is our purpose and drives us to do better every day. One Confluent. One team. One Data Streaming Platform. Data Connects Us. The Confluent Cloud Platform based on Apache Kafka is the leading Cloud Native Platform as a Service for streaming data infrastructure, but this is just the beginning. We are building a PaaS, enabling customers around the globe to deliver streaming applications. What You Will Do • Design, build, and evolve internal infrastructure services written in Go, often as Kubernetes operators, that power the core platform behind Confluent Cloud • Own the systems that make cloud infrastructure secure, scalable, observable, and reliable, using GitOps, Terraform, Prometheus, Grafana, and a strong foundation in Linux, networking, and public cloud • Collaborate with engineers across Confluent to enable fast, safe, and autonomous deployment of services through shared platform tooling and best practices • Take shared responsibility for the full lifecycle of our infrastructure: availability, performance, monitoring, incident response, and capacity planning • Work on systems at scale, across tens of thousands of instances and multiple regions, with a focus on smooth, fast, and safe operations • Influence the architecture and operational strategy behind the critical infrastructure that supports all of Confluent’s cloud services Participate in a 8-hour, follow-the-sun on-call rotation. Preferred Education Master's Degree Required Technical And Professional Expertise • Strong programming skills with the ability to read, debug, and evolve existing code (Go, Java, or Python) Deep understanding of systems internals (filesystems, memory, networking, kernel behavior) and large-scale system performance • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production and modern cloud-native ecosystems, including containers and public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) • Expertise in automation and reliability practices—GitOps, Terraform, CI/CD, observability—and experience diagnosing and improving complex systems • Strong collaboration, communication, and ownership mindset, with the ability to operate independently in a distributed team Preferred Technical And Professional Experience • Strong programming skills with the ability to read, debug, and evolve existing code (Go, Java, or Python) Deep understanding of systems internals (filesystems, memory, networking, kernel behavior) and large-scale system performance • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production and modern cloud-native ecosystems, including containers and public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) • Expertise in automation and reliability practices—GitOps, Terraform, CI/CD, observability—and experience diagnosing and improving complex systems

Design and maintain cloud-native infrastructure services with focus on scalability, security, and reliability. | Requires strong programming in Go/Java/Python, Kubernetes experience, and expertise in automation and cloud-native ecosystems. | Introduction At IBM Software, we transform client challenges into solutions. Building the world’s leading AI-powered, cloud-native products that shape the future of business and society. Our legacy of innovation creates endless opportunities for IBMers to learn, grow, and make an impact on a global scale. Working in Software means joining a team fueled by curiosity and collaboration. You’ll work with diverse technologies, partners, and industries to design, develop, and deliver solutions that power digital transformation. With a culture that values innovation, growth, and continuous learning, IBM Software places you at the heart of IBM’s product and technology landscape. Here, you’ll have the tools and opportunities to advance your career while creating software that changes the world. Your Role And Responsibilities With Confluent, organizations can harness the full power of continuously flowing data to innovate and win in the modern digital world. We have a purpose that drives us to do better every day - we're creating an entirely new category within data infrastructure - data streaming. This technology will allow every organization to create experiences and use the power of data in ways that profoundly impact the way we all live. This impact is our purpose and drives us to do better every day. One Confluent. One team. One Data Streaming Platform. Data Connects Us. The Confluent Cloud Platform based on Apache Kafka is the leading Cloud Native Platform as a Service for streaming data infrastructure, but this is just the beginning. We are building a PaaS, enabling customers around the globe to deliver streaming applications. What You Will Do • Design, build, and evolve internal infrastructure services written in Go, often as Kubernetes operators, that power the core platform behind Confluent Cloud • Own the systems that make cloud infrastructure secure, scalable, observable, and reliable, using GitOps, Terraform, Prometheus, Grafana, and a strong foundation in Linux, networking, and public cloud • Collaborate with engineers across Confluent to enable fast, safe, and autonomous deployment of services through shared platform tooling and best practices • Take shared responsibility for the full lifecycle of our infrastructure: availability, performance, monitoring, incident response, and capacity planning • Work on systems at scale, across tens of thousands of instances and multiple regions, with a focus on smooth, fast, and safe operations • Influence the architecture and operational strategy behind the critical infrastructure that supports all of Confluent’s cloud services Participate in a 8-hour, follow-the-sun on-call rotation. Preferred Education Master's Degree Required Technical And Professional Expertise • Strong programming skills with the ability to read, debug, and evolve existing code (Go, Java, or Python) Deep understanding of systems internals (filesystems, memory, networking, kernel behavior) and large-scale system performance • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production and modern cloud-native ecosystems, including containers and public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) • Expertise in automation and reliability practices—GitOps, Terraform, CI/CD, observability—and experience diagnosing and improving complex systems • Strong collaboration, communication, and ownership mindset, with the ability to operate independently in a distributed team Preferred Technical And Professional Experience • Strong programming skills with the ability to read, debug, and evolve existing code (Go, Java, or Python) Deep understanding of systems internals (filesystems, memory, networking, kernel behavior) and large-scale system performance • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production and modern cloud-native ecosystems, including containers and public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) • Expertise in automation and reliability practices—GitOps, Terraform, CI/CD, observability—and experience diagnosing and improving complex systems

Design, develop, and deliver scalable, reliable distributed systems for cloud-native event streaming platform. | Requires strong distributed systems background, proficiency in JVM languages, cloud experience, and 4+ years in cloud infrastructure. | Introduction At IBM Software, we transform client challenges into solutions. Building the world’s leading AI-powered, cloud-native products that shape the future of business and society. Our legacy of innovation creates endless opportunities for IBMers to learn, grow, and make an impact on a global scale. Working in Software means joining a team fueled by curiosity and collaboration. You’ll work with diverse technologies, partners, and industries to design, develop, and deliver solutions that power digital transformation. With a culture that values innovation, growth, and continuous learning, IBM Software places you at the heart of IBM’s product and technology landscape. Here, you’ll have the tools and opportunities to advance your career while creating software that changes the world. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. We put information in motion, streaming in near real time so organizations can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them. Your Role And Responsibilities You already know the power of our technology. You’ve helped build the platform that’s reshaping how the world uses data. But Confluent isn’t just about technology. It’s about opportunity, yours included. Growth here doesn’t require a new company, just a new challenge. We believe the best way to keep building something great is to keep great people. Because opportunity doesn’t just knock once. It grows with you. Whether you’re ready for a new challenge, a different perspective, or a bigger impact, there’s a path forward here. One Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform. 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 highly available, reliable, secure, scalable, and multi-tenant Kora's compute layer. 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. Here are examples of some of the challenges we've taken on in recent years: Kora: A Cloud-Native Event Streaming Platform For Kafka Apache Kafka's Next-Gen Rebalance Protocol: Towards More Stable and Scalable Consumer Groups From On-Prem to Cloud-Native: Multi-Tenancy in Confluent Cloud Speed, Scale, Storage: Our Journey from Apache Kafka to Performance in Confluent Cloud Benchmarking Confluent Cloud What You Will Do • Driven and excited about challenges of delivering complex projects in production with a focus on quality • Customer focused - making customers more successful by taking on their most challenging problems motivates you • Have a strong sense of teamwork and able to make decisions which benefit the team and company • Identify root causes, and get beyond treating symptoms - motivated to dig deep and solve hard problems What Gives You An Edge • In-depth familiarity with the JVM • 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) • Experience working on databases or data storage Preferred Education Master's Degree Required Technical And Professional Expertise • BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience • Proficiency in Java, Scala, C/C++, Go or other statically typed languages • 4+ 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) Preferred Technical And Professional Experience • Leading-Edge Technologies: Experience with designing, developing, and delivering software solutions using leading-edge technologies, including back-end and front-end development, and DevOps engineering. • Agile Collaboration: Experience working in an Agile environment, collaborating with stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver high-quality software solutions. • Automated CI/CD Pipelines: Experience contributing to automated CI/CD pipelines, ensuring seamless integration and delivery of software solutions.

Design, build, and maintain cloud-native infrastructure services and ensure their reliability and scalability. | Requires strong programming in Go, Java, or Python, deep systems internals knowledge, Kubernetes and cloud platform experience, and automation expertise. | Introduction At IBM Software, we transform client challenges into solutions. Building the world’s leading AI-powered, cloud-native products that shape the future of business and society. Our legacy of innovation creates endless opportunities for IBMers to learn, grow, and make an impact on a global scale. Working in Software means joining a team fueled by curiosity and collaboration. You’ll work with diverse technologies, partners, and industries to design, develop, and deliver solutions that power digital transformation. With a culture that values innovation, growth, and continuous learning, IBM Software places you at the heart of IBM’s product and technology landscape. Here, you’ll have the tools and opportunities to advance your career while creating software that changes the world. Your Role And Responsibilities With Confluent, organizations can harness the full power of continuously flowing data to innovate and win in the modern digital world. We have a purpose that drives us to do better every day - we're creating an entirely new category within data infrastructure - data streaming. This technology will allow every organization to create experiences and use the power of data in ways that profoundly impact the way we all live. This impact is our purpose and drives us to do better every day. One Confluent. One team. One Data Streaming Platform. Data Connects Us. The Confluent Cloud Platform based on Apache Kafka is the leading Cloud Native Platform as a Service for streaming data infrastructure, but this is just the beginning. We are building a PaaS, enabling customers around the globe to deliver streaming applications. What You Will Do • Design, build, and evolve internal infrastructure services written in Go, often as Kubernetes operators, that power the core platform behind Confluent Cloud • Own the systems that make cloud infrastructure secure, scalable, observable, and reliable, using GitOps, Terraform, Prometheus, Grafana, and a strong foundation in Linux, networking, and public cloud • Collaborate with engineers across Confluent to enable fast, safe, and autonomous deployment of services through shared platform tooling and best practices • Take shared responsibility for the full lifecycle of our infrastructure: availability, performance, monitoring, incident response, and capacity planning • Work on systems at scale, across tens of thousands of instances and multiple regions, with a focus on smooth, fast, and safe operations • Influence the architecture and operational strategy behind the critical infrastructure that supports all of Confluent’s cloud services Participate in a 8-hour, follow-the-sun on-call rotation. Preferred Education Master's Degree Required Technical And Professional Expertise • Strong programming skills with the ability to read, debug, and evolve existing code (Go, Java, or Python) Deep understanding of systems internals (filesystems, memory, networking, kernel behavior) and large-scale system performance • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production and modern cloud-native ecosystems, including containers and public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) • Expertise in automation and reliability practices—GitOps, Terraform, CI/CD, observability—and experience diagnosing and improving complex systems • Strong collaboration, communication, and ownership mindset, with the ability to operate independently in a distributed team Preferred Technical And Professional Experience • Strong programming skills with the ability to read, debug, and evolve existing code (Go, Java, or Python) Deep understanding of systems internals (filesystems, memory, networking, kernel behavior) and large-scale system performance • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production and modern cloud-native ecosystems, including containers and public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) • Expertise in automation and reliability practices—GitOps, Terraform, CI/CD, observability—and experience diagnosing and improving complex systems

Design and maintain cloud infrastructure services with focus on scalability, security, and reliability. | Requires strong programming in Go/Java/Python, Kubernetes experience, and deep systems knowledge. | Introduction At IBM Software, we transform client challenges into solutions. Building the world’s leading AI-powered, cloud-native products that shape the future of business and society. Our legacy of innovation creates endless opportunities for IBMers to learn, grow, and make an impact on a global scale. Working in Software means joining a team fueled by curiosity and collaboration. You’ll work with diverse technologies, partners, and industries to design, develop, and deliver solutions that power digital transformation. With a culture that values innovation, growth, and continuous learning, IBM Software places you at the heart of IBM’s product and technology landscape. Here, you’ll have the tools and opportunities to advance your career while creating software that changes the world. Your Role And Responsibilities With Confluent, organizations can harness the full power of continuously flowing data to innovate and win in the modern digital world. We have a purpose that drives us to do better every day - we're creating an entirely new category within data infrastructure - data streaming. This technology will allow every organization to create experiences and use the power of data in ways that profoundly impact the way we all live. This impact is our purpose and drives us to do better every day. One Confluent. One team. One Data Streaming Platform. Data Connects Us. The Confluent Cloud Platform based on Apache Kafka is the leading Cloud Native Platform as a Service for streaming data infrastructure, but this is just the beginning. We are building a PaaS, enabling customers around the globe to deliver streaming applications. What You Will Do • Design, build, and evolve internal infrastructure services written in Go, often as Kubernetes operators, that power the core platform behind Confluent Cloud • Own the systems that make cloud infrastructure secure, scalable, observable, and reliable, using GitOps, Terraform, Prometheus, Grafana, and a strong foundation in Linux, networking, and public cloud • Collaborate with engineers across Confluent to enable fast, safe, and autonomous deployment of services through shared platform tooling and best practices • Take shared responsibility for the full lifecycle of our infrastructure: availability, performance, monitoring, incident response, and capacity planning • Work on systems at scale, across tens of thousands of instances and multiple regions, with a focus on smooth, fast, and safe operations • Influence the architecture and operational strategy behind the critical infrastructure that supports all of Confluent’s cloud services Participate in a 8-hour, follow-the-sun on-call rotation. Preferred Education Master's Degree Required Technical And Professional Expertise • Strong programming skills with the ability to read, debug, and evolve existing code (Go, Java, or Python) Deep understanding of systems internals (filesystems, memory, networking, kernel behavior) and large-scale system performance • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production and modern cloud-native ecosystems, including containers and public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) • Expertise in automation and reliability practices—GitOps, Terraform, CI/CD, observability—and experience diagnosing and improving complex systems • Strong collaboration, communication, and ownership mindset, with the ability to operate independently in a distributed team Preferred Technical And Professional Experience • Strong programming skills with the ability to read, debug, and evolve existing code (Go, Java, or Python) Deep understanding of systems internals (filesystems, memory, networking, kernel behavior) and large-scale system performance • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production and modern cloud-native ecosystems, including containers and public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) • Expertise in automation and reliability practices—GitOps, Terraform, CI/CD, observability—and experience diagnosing and improving complex systems

Design and build cloud infrastructure services focusing on scalability, reliability, and observability using Go, Kubernetes, and cloud-native tools. | Requires strong programming in Go/Java/Python, deep systems knowledge, Kubernetes experience, and expertise in automation and reliability practices. | Introduction At IBM Software, we transform client challenges into solutions. Building the world’s leading AI-powered, cloud-native products that shape the future of business and society. Our legacy of innovation creates endless opportunities for IBMers to learn, grow, and make an impact on a global scale. Working in Software means joining a team fueled by curiosity and collaboration. You’ll work with diverse technologies, partners, and industries to design, develop, and deliver solutions that power digital transformation. With a culture that values innovation, growth, and continuous learning, IBM Software places you at the heart of IBM’s product and technology landscape. Here, you’ll have the tools and opportunities to advance your career while creating software that changes the world. Your Role And Responsibilities With Confluent, organizations can harness the full power of continuously flowing data to innovate and win in the modern digital world. We have a purpose that drives us to do better every day - we're creating an entirely new category within data infrastructure - data streaming. This technology will allow every organization to create experiences and use the power of data in ways that profoundly impact the way we all live. This impact is our purpose and drives us to do better every day. One Confluent. One team. One Data Streaming Platform. Data Connects Us. The Confluent Cloud Platform based on Apache Kafka is the leading Cloud Native Platform as a Service for streaming data infrastructure, but this is just the beginning. We are building a PaaS, enabling customers around the globe to deliver streaming applications. What You Will Do • Design, build, and evolve internal infrastructure services written in Go, often as Kubernetes operators, that power the core platform behind Confluent Cloud • Own the systems that make cloud infrastructure secure, scalable, observable, and reliable, using GitOps, Terraform, Prometheus, Grafana, and a strong foundation in Linux, networking, and public cloud • Collaborate with engineers across Confluent to enable fast, safe, and autonomous deployment of services through shared platform tooling and best practices • Take shared responsibility for the full lifecycle of our infrastructure: availability, performance, monitoring, incident response, and capacity planning • Work on systems at scale, across tens of thousands of instances and multiple regions, with a focus on smooth, fast, and safe operations • Influence the architecture and operational strategy behind the critical infrastructure that supports all of Confluent’s cloud services Participate in a 8-hour, follow-the-sun on-call rotation. Preferred Education Master's Degree Required Technical And Professional Expertise • Strong programming skills with the ability to read, debug, and evolve existing code (Go, Java, or Python) Deep understanding of systems internals (filesystems, memory, networking, kernel behavior) and large-scale system performance • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production and modern cloud-native ecosystems, including containers and public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) • Expertise in automation and reliability practices—GitOps, Terraform, CI/CD, observability—and experience diagnosing and improving complex systems • Strong collaboration, communication, and ownership mindset, with the ability to operate independently in a distributed team Preferred Technical And Professional Experience • Strong programming skills with the ability to read, debug, and evolve existing code (Go, Java, or Python) Deep understanding of systems internals (filesystems, memory, networking, kernel behavior) and large-scale system performance • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production and modern cloud-native ecosystems, including containers and public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) • Expertise in automation and reliability practices—GitOps, Terraform, CI/CD, observability—and experience diagnosing and improving complex systems