Software Engineer

About The Role

We are a team of passionate engineers who love solving complex distributed systems and infrastructure problems. We are building Kora from the ground up to be a true managed service for clients who demand high levels of availability and performance at the lowest cost of ownership. In this role, you will be working on building highly available, reliable, secure, scalable, and multi-tenant Kora's compute layer. You will be instrumental in driving the technical solutions end-to-end, working closely with the team and key stakeholders to design, architect, and develop top-notch solutions. Here are examples of some of the challenges we've taken on in recent years:

Kora: A Cloud-Native Event Streaming Platform For Kafka

Apache Kafka's Next-Gen Rebalance Protocol: Towards More Stable and Scalable Consumer Groups

From On-Prem to Cloud-Native: Multi-Tenancy in Confluent Cloud

Speed, Scale, Storage: Our Journey from Apache Kafka to Performance in Confluent Cloud

Benchmarking Confluent Cloud

What You Will Do

Driven and excited about challenges of delivering complex projects in production with a focus on quality

Customer focused - making customers more successful by taking on their most challenging problems motivates you

Have a strong sense of teamwork and able to make decisions which benefit the team and company

Identify root causes, and get beyond treating symptoms - motivated to dig deep and solve hard problems

What You Will Bring

BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience

4+ years of relevant cloud infrastructure/cloud networking experience

Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development

Experience building and operating large-scale systems in the Cloud

Solid understanding of basic systems operations (disk, network, operating systems, etc)

A self starter with the ability to work effectively in teams

Proficiency in Java, Scala, C/C++, Go or other statically typed languages

What Gives You An Edge

In-depth familiarity with the JVM

A strong background in distributed storage systems or databases

Experience in the areas of resource management and QoS

Experience/knowledge with public clouds (AWS, Azure or GCP)

Interest in evangelism (giving talks at tech conferences, writing blog posts evangelizing Kafka)

Experience working on databases or data storage

Ready To Build What's Next? Let's Get In Motion.

Belonging isn't a perk here. It's 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 what's possible.

We're 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.