Introduction

At IBM Software, we transform client challenges into solutions. Building the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native products that shape the future of business and society. Our legacy of innovation creates endless opportunities for IBMers to learn, grow, and make an impact on a global scale. Working in Software means joining a team fueled by curiosity and collaboration. You'll work with diverse technologies, partners, and industries to design, develop, and deliver solutions that power digital transformation.

With a culture that values innovation, growth, and continuous learning, IBM Software places you at the heart of IBM's product and technology landscape. Here, you'll have the tools and opportunities to advance your career while creating software that changes the world. With Confluent, data doesn't sit still. We put information in motion, streaming in near real time so organizations can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them.

Your Role And Responsibilities

About the team:

The Monetization Platform team sits at the heart of Confluent's business strategy, enabling the company to grow by monetizing products and features across Confluent Cloud - a fully managed multi-cloud solution. Our mission is to build a flexible, accurate, performant, and robust monetization platform responsible for supporting flexible pricing and payments, on-demand bill generation, etc. allowing Confluent to define and sell products globally.

In this role, you will build accurate, reliable, scalable, and functionally rich systems in the cloud to support usage-based billing and pricing in the cloud that powers Confluentâs revenue across all products and global markets. You will get an opportunity to work on business-critical flows from ideation to completion by closely collaborating with Product Managers, different engineering and business teams.

You Are

Have a strong sense of teamwork and put team and company's interests first
Driven and excited about the challenges of a fast-paced, innovative software startup environment
A hands-on engineer who enjoys working with loosely coupled distributed systems
Self-driven and highly motivated to deliver a high-quality solution with accuracy
Able to work in an agile environment and adapt to changing business requirements
Believe in test-driven development
Excited about learning and adapting to emerging new technologies
Enjoy and take pride in working on projects to successful completion involving different technologies and systems
Have a high bar when working with production systems

Preferred Education

Master's Degree

Required Technical And Professional Expertise

At least 8 years of relevant experience
Experience in architecting, designing, and developing highly scalable and performant backend services
Proficiency in a major programming language e.g.Go,Java, C / C++, etc.
Experience of working on Kubernetes, Public Clouds - AWS, GCP, & Azure
Familiarity with Kafka, Streaming, SaaS platform development
Deep knowledge of designing distributed systems in the Cloud
Experience in running production services in Public Clouds, with a drive towards quality, accuracy, and operational excellence
Strong problem-solving and analytical/critical thinking skills with attention to details
A strategic engineer who constantly thinks of operational improvements of the service to meet availability and performance SLA
Comfortable with troubleshooting technical issues across services and multi-level technical stacks that includes microservices, containers, and virtualization
Bachelors or Master's degree in Computer Science, like discipline, or commensurate work experience

Preferred Technical And Professional Experience

Leading-Edge Technologies: Experience with designing, developing, and delivering software solutions using leading-edge technologies, including back-end and front-end development, and DevOps engineering.
Agile Collaboration: Experience working in an Agile environment, collaborating with stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver high-quality software solutions.
Automated CI/CD Pipelines: Experience contributing to automated CI/CD pipelines, ensuring seamless integration and delivery of software solutions.

Senior Software Engineer II - Confluent Cloud Infrastructure & Platform