Staff Software Engineer I - Confluent

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 The Kora Serverless team has the vision to build the best serverless experience for Kora - Confluent's cloud native Kafka service. As a Senior Software engineer, you will design and build efficient and performant algorithms for right sizing, load balancing and seamless scalability of Kora. You will be instrumental in driving the vision and roadmap providing technical leadership, mentoring, and enabling a high-performing engineering team to tackle complex distributed data challenges at scale. What You Will Do Build the software underpinning mission-critical Kora Serverless platform. You will play a crucial role in designing, developing and operationalizing high performance, scalable, reliable and resilient systems Collaborate effectively across engineering, product, field teams and other key stakeholders to create and execute impactful roadmap for the Kora Serverless team. Meet and exceed Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for critical cloud services owned by the Kora Serverless team. Evaluate and enhance the efficiency of our platform's technology stack, keeping pace with industry trends and adopting state-of-the-art solutions Provide technical leadership, mentorship and drive strong teamwork 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 6+ years of relevant software development experience 3+ years of experience with designing, building, and scaling distributed systems Deep technical expertise in large scale distributed systems Experience running production services in the cloud with demonstrated operational excellence Proficiency in Java, Scala Ability to influence the team, peers, and management using effective communication and collaborative techniques Proven experience in leading and mentoring technical teams Preferred Technical And Professional Experience A strong background in distributed storage systems or databases Experience in the areas of load balancing stateful distributed systems Experience developing SaaS services on public clouds providers(AWS, Azure or GCP) Interest in evangelism (giving talks at tech conferences, writing blog posts evangelizing Kafka) Skills: Scala, Load Balancing, Distributed Systems, Java, Cloud Services Experience: 6.00-8.00 Years