Senior Software Engineer II - Confluent Cloud Platform (Remote) at IBM
Atlanta, GA
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Jul 14, 2026
Atlanta, GA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This role focuses on building and maintaining internal infrastructure services for Confluent Cloud, a large-scale data streaming platform built on Apache Kafka. Day-to-day work involves writing Go-based Kubernetes operators, managing cloud infrastructure across tens of thousands of instances and multiple regions, and supporting reliability through GitOps, Terraform, and observability tooling. It suits engineers with deep systems knowledge and production Kubernetes experience who are comfortable with on-call responsibilities and autonomous work in a distributed team.
Senior level · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 11,300 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 6,800–17,000
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The role is titled simply 'Software Engineer' (or similar) with no explicit seniority level in the title — advertised seniority is Unspecified. However, the scope (owning systems at scale across tens of thousands of instances and multiple regions, influencing architecture, on-call ownership) firmly supports a Senior classification.
The 'Preferred technical and professional experience' section is an apparent copy-paste of the 'Required' section verbatim. Because the content is identical to the required block, the skills are treated as hard gates from the required section; no additional preferred-only skills were surfaced.
Prometheus and Grafana are named only in the narrative 'What You Will Do' section (not in the formal Required or Preferred blocks), so they are marked as preferred rather than hard gates.
Apache Kafka is the underlying technology of the Confluent Cloud Platform and appears in product/company context rather than as a stated candidate requirement, so it is marked preferred.
The SOC classification is Medium confidence: the role writes Go-based Kubernetes operators and infrastructure services (pointing to 15-1252 Software Developers), but also carries strong operational/SRE responsibilities (availability, incident response, capacity planning) that overlap with 15-1244. The primary day-to-day work — building and evolving infrastructure services in Go — tips the classification to 15-1252.
No compensation figures are stated in the posting.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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