Confluent - Juneau, AK

posted 2 months ago

Full-time - Mid Level
Remote - Juneau, AK
Publishing Industries

About the position

At Confluent, we are on a mission to empower organizations to harness the full potential of continuously flowing data, enabling them to innovate and thrive in the modern digital landscape. Our focus is on creating a new category within data infrastructure—data streaming. This technology allows organizations to create transformative experiences and leverage data in ways that significantly impact our daily lives. Our purpose drives us to improve continuously, and we are united as one team under the banner of One Confluent, One Data Streaming Platform. In this role, you will join our team of Federal Site Reliability Engineers, where your passion for data will enable you to turn events into actionable outcomes. You will have the unique opportunity to work closely with key public sector agencies, delivering highly performant and reliable systems that empower these agencies to make real-time decisions and solve pressing problems using Confluent Cloud. As a Software as a Service (SaaS) model, Confluent Cloud provides a complete end-to-end streaming experience, and you will play a crucial role in ensuring its operational resiliency and effectiveness. Your responsibilities will include partnering with our Cloud Architecture and Engineering teams to enhance the operational capabilities of Confluent Cloud systems utilized by federal agencies. You will collaborate across various teams to verify and deploy production changes, ensuring compliance with FedRAMP data handling requirements during incidents. Additionally, you will maintain critical monitoring systems for triage and escalations in the federal space, while also driving continuous improvements in automated recovery processes. Your adherence to established incident and change processes will be vital in maintaining the integrity and reliability of our services.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with Cloud Architecture and Engineering teams to enhance operational resiliency of Confluent Cloud systems for federal agencies.
  • Collaborate across teams to verify and deploy production changes to Confluent Cloud systems and infrastructure.
  • Engage with peer engineering teams during incidents using an 'escort model' to ensure compliance with FedRAMP data handling requirements.
  • Maintain critical monitoring systems for triage and escalations in the federal space and improve automated recovery processes.
  • Adhere to established incident and change processes and drive continuous improvements.

Requirements

  • U.S. Citizenship is required to comply with U.S. federal government regulations.
  • 6+ years of relevant experience in a related field.
  • Expertise in Cloud Native technologies with experience operating production services in the cloud.
  • Strong fundamentals of Distributed Systems and their design.
  • Deep knowledge of Kubernetes and containerization.
  • Experience with telemetry tooling to monitor production systems.
  • Confidence in problem-solving and troubleshooting critical services.
  • Proficiency with scripting and automation (e.g., Go, Java, Python, Bash).
  • Working knowledge of infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform, Cloudformation, AWS CDK, Pulumi).
  • Exceptional teamwork and collaboration skills, with the ability to act critically with minimal supervision in a remote-first environment.
  • Experience with a rotating on-call schedule to provide 24/7 support.
  • BS Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.

Benefits

  • Competitive pay and benefits in line with industry standards.
  • Annual estimated salary of $145,920 - $171,440 USD.
  • Annual bonus and competitive equity package.
  • Wide range of employee benefits.
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