Software Engineer II Kafka AMS Team

Software Engineer - II (Asynchronous Messaging Services Team) Bangalore

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Meet Our Team

We are a platform-focused engineering team made up of Junior Mid-level Senior and Staff engineers who specialize in distributed asynchronous messaging systems.

Our mission is simple but ambitious:
Make event-driven architecture safe scalable and easy to adopt across the company.

What defines our team:

• We treat messaging as a product not just infrastructure.

• We believe in automation over manual operations.

• Wedesignmulti-region high-throughput and mission-critical workloads.

• We invest in documentation internal enablement and reusable frameworks.

• We balance platform reliability with developer experience.

This is a team where you can deepen yourexpertisein Kafka cloud infrastructure and platform engineering while influencing architecture across the organization.

About the Role

We are looking for aSoftware Engineer IIto join our Kafka Platform team and help build and scale our Kafka-as-a-Service offering on top of Confluent Cloud.

You will contribute to the design automation and evolution of a global event streaming platform that powers high-traffic telemetry business-criticalmessaging and large-scale data processing workloads.

This role is ideal for an engineer who combines strong software development fundamentals with hands-on infrastructure and cloud experience and who enjoys solving distributed systems challenges at scale.

WhatYoullDo

• Contribute to the development and evolution of ourKafka-as-a-Serviceplatformbuilt on Confluent Cloud.

• Design and implement scalable resilient and secure Kafka architectures across multiple regions.

• Build andmaintainInfrastructure-as-Code (IaC) workflows usingTerraform.

• Improve self-service capabilities for internal teams (topicprovisioning schema management access control etc.).

• Solve complex challenges around:

• Scalability & throughput

• Multi-region replication

• Schema Registry management

• Security & compliance

• High availability& disaster recovery

• Participate in on-call rotations and support production systems.

• Develop automation and tooling inPython Java or Goto improve reliability and developer experience.

• Contribute tomonitoringand platform observability.

WhatWereLooking For

• Bachelors degree in computer scienceor related field (or equivalent experience).

• 35 years of professional software development experience.

• Hands-on experience withKafka administration or operations(preferably Confluent Cloud).

• Experience working withAWS cloud infrastructure.

• Practical experience withTerraformor another Infrastructure-as-Code tool.

• Strongprogramming experience inat least oneof the following: Python Java or Go.

• Experienceoperatingand supporting production systems.

• Strong understanding of software engineering best practices:

• Testing & automation

• Code reviews

• CI/CD

• Observability & monitoring

• Strong computer science fundamentals (data structures algorithms distributedsystemsbasics).

Preferred Qualifications

• OperatingKafka at scale including:

• Topic configuration & partitioning strategy

• Consumer group optimization

• Schema evolution & governance

• Replication strategies

• Event-driven architecture and streaming frameworks (e.g. Kafka Streams).

• Cloud infrastructure automation (AWSpreferred).

• Database systems (Postgres NoSQL etc.).

• Experienceparticipatingin on-call rotations and incidentresponses.

• Strong written communication skills including architecture documentation and diagramming.

• Experience collaborating with globally distributed teams.

What Makes You Successful in This Role

Success in this role means growing from a strong contributor into a reliable platform engineer who can independently deliver meaningful improvements.

You will thrive in this role if you:

• Own Problems End-to-End

• Take well-defined problems and drive them through design implementation testing and production rollout.

• Follow through on operational excellence not just writing code but ensuring it runs reliably in production.

• Proactivelyidentifyinefficiencies and suggest improvements.

• Build with Production in Mind

• Think about scalability resiliency observability and failure modes while designing solutions.

• Write clean testable and maintainablecode.

• Value automation and prefer infrastructure-as-code over manual processes.

• Develop Distributed Systems Intuition

• Understand asynchronous patterns and trade-offs (throughput ordering retries backpressure).

• Ask thoughtful questions about partitioning strategy replication and consumer scaling.

• Continuously deepen your understanding of Kafka and cloud-native systems.

• Elevate the Team Around You

• Participate actively in code reviews and technical discussions.

• Contribute to improving documentation and shared standards.

• Support teammates during incidents and learn from postmortems.

• Operate with Accountability

• Take ownership ofthe servicesand components you build.

• Participate in on-call rotations responsibly.

• Learn from production issues and help prevent repeat incidents.