Hybrid Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer with verification
Confluent · Saskatchewan, Canada (Remote) · nan, · Hybrid
About the job
One Confluent. One team. One Data Streaming Platform.
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About The Role
Join our Identity & Authentication team at Confluent, where we are dedicated to building engineering platforms and developer abstractions to ensure a secure environment for customers and Confluent engineers. As an early career engineer, you will work closely with a dynamic team to build, scale, operationalize, observe, and secure Confluent products to maximize productivity and minimize downtime or inefficiencies. This is a unique opportunity to be part of a growing team critical to our cloud platform's security and success, impacting millions of users globally.
What You Will Do
- Collaborate with team members to design and develop authentication and identity management services.
- Focus on creating reliable, self-healing, scalable, and cost-effective processes, ensuring profitability without compromising on quality or security.
- Implement and maintain secure, high-performance backend systems. Provide robust APIs and abstractions to simplify developing and deploying new products and features.
- Participate in code reviews, debugging, and troubleshooting to ensure high-quality code and efficient problem-solving.
- Contribute to the operational readiness and monitoring of services to meet performance and availability SLAs.
- Work on integrating services with cloud providers like AWS, GCP, and Azure.
- A passion for software engineering with 2+ years of experience and a keen interest in identity and authentication technologies.
- Strong programming skills in Go, Java, Python, or similar languages.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, microservices architecture, and cloud computing.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and a proactive approach to learning new technologies.
- Effective communication skills and working collaboratively in a remote team environment.
- A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience with identity and access management (IAM) solutions.
- Familiarity with security protocols and standards (e.g., OAuth, OpenID Connect, SAML, Login, Auth0).
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, or other container orchestration tools.
- Previous internship or project experience in a cloud computing or remote environment.
- A strong commitment to customer satisfaction and a focus on delivering high-quality, reliable software.
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