ksqlDB Engineer

Company: Confluent Inc
Location: Mountain View
Posted on: May 3, 2021

Job Description:

Confluent is pioneering a fundamentally new category of data infrastructure focused on data in motion. Have you ever found a new favorite series on Netflix, picked up groceries curbside at Walmart, or paid for something using Square? That's the power of data in motion in action"giving organizations instant access to the massive amounts of data that is constantly flowing throughout their business. At Confluent, we're buildingthefoundational platform for this new paradigm of data infrastructure. Our cloud-native offering is designed to be the intelligent connective tissue enabling real-time data, from multiple sources, to constantly stream across the organization. With Confluent, organizations can create a central nervous system to innovate and win in a digital-first world. We're looking for self-motivated team members who crave a challenge and feel energized to roll up their sleeves and help realize Confluent's enormous potential. Chart your own path and take healthy risks as we solve big problems together. We value having diverse teams and want you to grow as we grow"whether you're just starting out in your career or managing a large team, you'll be amazed at the magnitude of your impact. About the Role We are looking for strong engineers to help us build out an elastic, scalable, efficient, SQL-based, stream processing technology which operates both on-premises and in the Cloud. You can learn more about what we do by visitingksqldb.io , or reading some of our recent posts on improving theavailability guarantees of our distributed, stateful, systems. What you will do Designing and implementing new stream processing operators, including making extensions to the SQL language to incorporate streaming concepts. Improving the performance, scalability, and elasticity of core stream processing technology like Kafka Streams. Designing solutions to improve the efficiency, reliability, and operability of our distributed, stateful, data processing systems in public clouds. Building novel solutions to enable efficient and scalable querying of state materialized from real time event streams. Interacting with the Apache Kafka and the ksqlDB communities to provide technical guidance and thought leadership in the stream processing space. What we're looking for Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or similar field or equivalentStrong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development Experience building and operating large-scale systems Solid understanding of basic systems operations (disk, network, operating systems, etc) A self starter with the ability to work effectively in teams Interest in evangelism (giving talks at tech conferences, writing blog posts evangelizing Kafka) Experience working on stream processing technology or query processing systems Come As You Are At Confluent, equality is a core tenet of our culture. We are committed to building an inclusive global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences. The more diverse we are, the richer our community and the broader our impact. Click here to review our California Candidate Privacy Notice , which describes how and when Confluent, Inc., and its group companies, collects, uses, and shares certain personal information of California job applicants and prospective employees.

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