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Software Engineering
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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About the Role:
The Kora Serverless team has the vision to build the best serverless experience for Kora - Confluent’s cloud native Kafka service. As a Senior Software engineer, you will design and build efficient and performant algorithms for right sizing, load balancing and seamless scalability of Kora. You will be instrumental in driving the vision and roadmap providing technical leadership, mentoring, and enabling a high-performing engineering team to tackle complex distributed data challenges at scale.
What You Will Do:
Build the software underpinning mission-critical Kora Serverless platform. You will play a crucial role in designing, developing and operationalizing high performance, scalable, reliable and resilient systems
Collaborate effectively across engineering, product, field teams and other key stakeholders to create and execute impactful roadmap for the Kora Serverless team.
Meet and exceed Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for critical cloud services owned by the Kora Serverless team.
Evaluate and enhance the efficiency of our platform's technology stack, keeping pace with industry trends and adopting state-of-the-art solutions
Provide technical leadership, mentorship and drive strong teamwork
BS, MS or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience
10+ years of relevant software development experience
Experience with designing, building, and scaling distributed systems
Deep technical expertise in large scale distributed systems
Experience running production services in the cloud with demonstrated operational excellence
Proficiency in Java, Scala
Ability to influence the team, peers, and management using effective communication and collaborative techniques
Proven experience in leading and mentoring technical teams
A strong background in distributed storage systems or databases
Experience in the areas of load balancing stateful distributed systems
Experience developing SaaS services on public clouds providers(AWS, Azure or GCP)
Interest in evangelism (giving talks at tech conferences, writing blog posts evangelizing Kafka)
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