Senior Software Engineer - Platform Infrastructure (Remote USA)
100000 - 120000 USD per year
Company:Confluent
Location:United States, EST, PST
Languages:English
Seniority level:Senior, 6+ years
Experience:6+ years
Skills:
AWSBackend DevelopmentPythonCloud ComputingDesign PatternsGCPJavaKubernetesSoftware ArchitectureAzureGoRustCI/CDRESTful APIsLinuxDevOpsMicroservicesMentoringComplianceSoftware Engineering
Requirements:
6+ years of experience in software engineering, SRE, or security engineering roles Significant experience operating security platform services Strong backend software development experience (Go, Java, Rust, Python) Expertise with distributed systems, cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure), Kubernetes, service mesh, and container orchestration Strong understanding of security domains: IAM, OAuth2, OIDC, PKI, secrets management, policy engines, audit pipelines, zero trust architecture Experience building highly reliable, observable, and resilient production systems Operational expertise: SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, on-call leadership, incident management Strong collaboration skills Excellent communication skills
Responsibilities:
Architect, design, and develop platform services Lead operational design for reliability Build automation and tooling for self-healing systems Collaborate with compliance, governance, and risk teams Lead technical design reviews, security architecture reviews, and incident postmortems Mentor engineers on security and operational best practices Own end-to-end delivery of services
