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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.\r\nYour role and responsibilities\r\nTo realize Confluent's enormous potential, we are looking for software engineers, at various levels, to grow our Traffic team which is responsible for building and managing the networking fabric of Confluent Cloud. Cloud networking is a strategic investment area for Confluent with the potential to impact the company's top and bottom line. The data plane area in the Traffic team focuses on the performance, security, reliability, and cost optimizations for all traffic that ingresses and egresses a customer's Kafka cluster on Confluent Cloud.\r\nWe are looking for someone with an interest in building large-scale distributed systems, with a focus on building and managing network data planes for containerized workloads in the cloud. The ideal candidate would be passionate about network data plane performance, scale, cost optimizations, and building robust software.\r\nBuild the software underpinning the mission-critical Confluent Cloud network data plane platform. You will play a crucial role in designing, developing and operationalizing high performance, scalable, reliable, and resilient systems.\r\nIndependently drive execution of software projects to deliver complex projects in production with a focus on quality.\r\nBuild upon open source software to deliver business impact.\r\nTroubleshoot issues and improve ops for complex technical stack that spans all the 3 clouds and includes microservices, containers, and virtualization.\r\nRequired technical and professional expertise\r\n2+ years of relevant cloud infrastructure/cloud networking experience\r\nExperience/knowledge with public clouds (AWS, Azure or GCP)\r\nPractical experience with Kubernetes and containerization technologies\r\nStrong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development\r\nExperience building and operating large-scale systems\r\nSolid understanding at a systems level (disk, network, operating systems, etc)\r\nProficiency in C++, Go, Python, or other statically typed languages\r\nA self-starter with the ability to work effectively in teams\r\nBS, MS in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience\r\nPreferred technical and professional experience\r\n5+ years of relevant cloud infrastructure/cloud networking experience\r\nA strong networking background combined with your software engineering experience\r\nIBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. 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