Senior Software Engineer II - Confluent Cloud Platform (Remote)

IBM
IBM

Software Engineering

Vancouver, BC, Canada

Posted on Jun 17, 2026
Introduction

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Your role and responsibilities

Senior Software Engineer II at Confluent owns critical backend systems that power our data streaming platform. In this role, you will design and deliver large-scale, distributed services that are secure, highly available, and operable across regions and cloud environments.

This is a generalist backend position supporting multiple teams. Based on your experience and interests, you may focus on areas such as core platform services, governance and metadata, observability and telemetry, security and access, or customer-facing applications. Team alignment is determined during the interview process in partnership with business needs.

You will also serve as a technical leader—driving architectural decisions, guiding project direction, mentoring engineers, and partnering cross-functionally to deliver high-impact solutions.

What You Will Do

  • Lead the design and development of complex, cloud-native backend services within a microservices architecture
  • Make and communicate architectural decisions that balance scalability, reliability, performance, and operability
  • Own projects end-to-end, from requirements and design through implementation, deployment, and production support
  • Improve system reliability by defining SLOs/SLAs, enhancing observability, and participating in on-call rotations as needed
  • Collaborate across teams to design APIs, integration points, and data models that ensure a cohesive and extensible platform
  • Identify and drive improvements in tooling, automation, and engineering processes to enhance productivity and efficiency
  • Mentor engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and technical guidance, helping elevate team capabilities
  • Contribute to a culture of technical excellence, continuous improvement, and inclusive collaboration
Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Master's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
  • 7+ years of experience building, scaling, and operating production-grade backend systems
  • Strong proficiency in at least one backend language (Java, Go, C/C++, or Python), with solid fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and system design
  • Hands-on experience with distributed systems, including event-driven architectures and large-scale services, with a clear understanding of consistency models, fault tolerance, and performance tradeoffs
  • Experience working in cloud environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure), including containers (Docker, Kubernetes) and modern deployment practices
  • Proven technical leadership and strong communication skills, with the ability to drive projects, influence architectural decisions, and collaborate effectively across teams
Preferred technical and professional experience
  • Experience building or operating mission-critical, multi-tenant, or multi-region services with strict availability and latency requirements
  • Familiarity with data streaming technologies such as Apache Kafka, Flink, or similar platforms
  • Experience working in security, governance, or compliance-sensitive backend domains

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence—from machine learning to generative AI—to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM’s AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM’s hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments—a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.

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Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

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OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

Must have the ability to work in Canada without sponsorship.

This role will involve working with technology that is covered by Export Regulations sanctions. If you are a Foreign National from any of the following US sanctioned countries (Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and the Crimea, Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhia regions of Ukraine) on a work permit, you are not eligible for employment in this position.

The salary range for the position is based on a full-time schedule. Your ultimate salary within this range may vary depending on your job-related skills and experience for this position.

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