Senior Solutions Architect

6+ years of Professional Services Experience/Integration/Delivery experience Deep experience designing, building, and operating in-production Big Data, stream processing, and/or enterprise data integration solutions, ideally using Apache Kafka Demonstrated experience successfully managing multiple B2B infrastructure software development projects Experience operating Linux (configure, tune, and troubleshoot both RedHat and Debian-based distributions) Experience using cloud providers (Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure) Experience with distributed systems (Kafka, Hadoop, Cassandra, etc.) Proficiency in Java or Python Excellent communication skills Ability to quickly learn new technologies Ability and willingness to travel to meet with customers

Help customers determine platform/application strategy for real-time, event-based business. Provide software architecture, design, and operations expertise. Develop and advocate best practices. Gather and validate critical product feedback. Help customers overcome operational challenges. Build state-of-the-art streaming data infrastructure. Optimize and debug customer deployments. Provide feedback to Confluent Product and Engineering groups. Build tooling for other teams. Test performance and functionality of new components. Write or edit documentation and knowledge base articles. Participate in community and industry events.