[Remote] Senior Software Engineer - Platform Infrastructure (Remote USA)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Confluent is a company focused on transforming how data moves and is utilized. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer II to architect, build, and operate core services for their cloud infrastructure and product platforms, emphasizing scalability, security, and operational excellence. Responsibilities • Architect, design, and develop platform services with a strong focus on scalability, security, and developer experience • Lead operational design for reliability: build comprehensive observability, monitoring, and incident response automation into security-critical services • Build automation and tooling to drive self-healing systems, proactive risk detection, failure recovery, and continuous resilience testing • Collaborate with compliance, governance, and risk teams to translate regulatory and policy requirements into scalable technical controls • Lead technical design reviews, security architecture reviews, and incident postmortems for platform-level incidents • Mentor engineers across multiple disciplines on both security and operational best practices • Own end-to-end delivery of services: from initial design and development through deployment, production hardening, and lifecycle maintenance Skills • 6+ years of experience in software engineering, SRE, or security engineering roles, with significant experience operating security platform services • Strong backend software development experience (Go, Java, Rust, Python) • Expertise with distributed systems, cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure), Kubernetes, service mesh, and container orchestration • Strong understanding of security domains: IAM, OAuth2, OIDC, PKI, secrets management, policy engines, audit pipelines, zero trust architecture • Experience building highly reliable, observable, and resilient production systems • Operational expertise: SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, on-call leadership, incident management • Strong collaboration skills to drive alignment across engineering, security, and compliance stakeholders • Excellent communication skills with ability to influence technical and business leaders • BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience • Experience with SPIFFE/SPIRE, OPA/Gatekeeper, Envoy, Istio, and workload identity management • Exposure to security compliance frameworks (FedRAMP) • Experience leading cross-org security platform architecture initiatives Company Overview • Confluent offers a streaming platform based on Apache Kafka that enables companies to easily access data as real-time streams. It was founded in 2014, and is headquartered in Mountain View, California, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is Company H1B Sponsorship • Confluent has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 142 in 2025, 107 in 2024, 91 in 2023, 155 in 2022, 119 in 2021, 50 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Apply tot his job