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divh2Senior Software Engineer II/h2pWere not just building better tech. Were rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesnt sit still. Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real-time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them. It takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together. One Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform./ppAbout the Role: We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer II to architect, build, and operate services that are core to the companys cloud infrastructure and product platforms. This is a hybrid engineering role, blending deep software development expertise with hands-on operational excellence. You will design highly scalable platform services (authentication, authorization, identity, secrets management, policy enforcement, security telemetry pipelines, etc.), while also ensuring these systems are reliable, observable, and resilient in production. Youll work across engineering, security, compliance, and platform orgs to deliver secure-by-default building blocks that empower product teams to integrate security seamlessly./ppWhat You Will Do:/pulliArchitect, design, and develop platform services with a strong focus on scalability, security, and developer experience./liliLead operational design for reliability: build comprehensive observability, monitoring, and incident response automation into security-critical services./liliBuild automation and tooling to drive self-healing systems, proactive risk detection, failure recovery, and continuous resilience testing./liliCollaborate with compliance, governance, and risk teams to translate regulatory and policy requirements into scalable technical controls./liliLead technical design reviews, security architecture reviews, and incident postmortems for platform-level incidents./liliMentor engineers across multiple disciplines on both security and operational best practices./liliOwn end-to-end delivery of services: from initial design and development through deployment, production hardening, and lifecycle maintenance./lipWhat You Will Bring:/pulli6+ years of experience in software engineering, SRE, or security engineering roles, with significant experience operating security platform services./liliStrong backend software development experience (Go, Java, Rust, Python)./liliExpertise with distributed systems, cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure), Kubernetes, service mesh, and container orchestration./liliStrong understanding of security domains: IAM, OAuth2, OIDC, PKI, secrets management, policy engines, audit pipelines, zero trust architecture./liliExperience building highly reliable, observable, and resilient production systems./liliOperational expertise: SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, on-call leadership, incident management./liliStrong collaboration skills to drive alignment across engineering, security, and compliance stakeholders./liliExcellent communication skills with ability to influence technical and business leaders./liliBS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience./li/ulpWhat Gives You an Edge:/pulliExperience with SPIFFE/SPIRE, OPA/Gatekeeper, Envoy, Istio, and workload identity management./liliExposure to security compliance frameworks (FedRAMP)./liliExperience leading cross-org security platform architecture initiatives./lipReady to build whats next? Lets get in motion./ppCome As You Are Belonging isnt a perk here. Its the baseline. We work across time zones and backgrounds, knowing the best ideas come from different perspectives. And we make space for everyone to lead, grow, and challenge whats possible. Were proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Employment decisions are based on job-related criteria, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other classification protected by law./p/ul/ul/div