# Distributed Systems Software Engineer

**Company:** [Confluent](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/confluent)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $197k – $271k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Distributed Systems, Backend Systems, Java, Go, C++, Python, Microservices, Containers, virtualization, storage systems, AWS, GCP, Azure
**Posted:** 2026-07-21

> Senior engineer building WarpStream, a Kafka-compatible data streaming platform on object storage. Design, develop, and operate scalable backend services and distributed systems across AWS, GCP, and Azure; own projects end-to-end including storage engine, control plane, transactions, and multi-region clusters.

## Job Description

## What You Will Do
- Independently drive execution of complex technical projects end to end.
- Build mission-critical backend services that deliver value to our customers. Play a crucial role in architecting, designing, developing and operationalizing high performance, scalable, reliable and resilient services.
- Troubleshoot and debug technical issues inside a deep and complex technical stack that includes microservices, containers, and virtualization.
- Ensure operational readiness of the services and meet the availability and performance SLA commitments to our customers.

## What You Will Bring
- 5+ years industry experience designing, building, scaling and supporting backend systems in production with a solid grasp on good software engineering practices such as code reviews, deep focus on quality, and documentation.
- Strong programming and algorithmic skills. Proficiency in a major programming language, e.g. Java, Go, C / C++, Python, etc.
- Deep curiosity and enthusiasm for distributed systems and storage systems.
- Strong focus on project delivery and communication skills.
- Experience in driving operational excellence for large production services.
- A strong sense of customer centricity, teamwork, technical leadership and mentorship and are excited about team and company success.

## What Gives You an Edge
- Proven track record of delivering large-scale, highly available, high quality systems.
- Hands-on technical expertise in large scale systems engineering or distributed systems.
- On-call experience handling critical systems.

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