Confluent - Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Platform at IBM
Bellevue, WA
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Aug 18, 2026
Bellevue, WA
Sep 25, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior backend software engineer role on Confluent's cloud-native compute platform, building and operating large-scale, multi-tenant distributed systems across Confluent Cloud (Kafka, Flink, Connect). The work centers on designing and owning complex backend services, defining SLOs/SLAs, improving observability, and driving architecture decisions that balance reliability, scalability, and performance at scale. Suited to engineers with a strong distributed systems background and a track record of end-to-end technical delivery in production cloud environments.
Senior level · 4+ years
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How this req sits in the market our data
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).
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Why we read it this way (5)
The posting lists Python explicitly as a required language but also accepts Go, C/C++, or Java as alternatives — Python is called out separately with additional depth requirements (virtual environments, package management, interpreter configurations), suggesting it is the preferred language on this team.
Docker and Kubernetes are listed together as examples of container/orchestration experience under the required cloud section; both are captured as required skills since the JD gates on container and orchestration proficiency broadly.
JVM/WASM expertise is explicitly called 'a big plus', placing it in the preferred category.
Kafka and Apache Flink appear only in the role narrative describing the platform's components, not in the requirements section — treated as preferred/context rather than hard gates.
No work location is specified in the posting beyond IBM Software generally; CBSA and state fields are left blank.
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