Platform Security Engineer
Austin, TX

Job Description

Dubbed an "open-source unicorn" by Forbes, Confluent is the fastest-growing enterprise subscription company our investors have ever seen. And how are we growing so fast? By pioneering a new technology category with an event streaming platform, which enables companies to leverage their data as a continually updating stream of events, not as static snapshots. This innovation has led Sequoia Capital, Benchmark, and Index Ventures to recently invest a combined $125 million in our Series D financing. Our product has been adopted by Fortune 100 customers across all industries, and we're being led by the best in the space-our founders were the original creators of Apache Kafka®. We're looking for talented and amazing team players who want to accelerate our growth, while doing some of the best work in their career. Join us as we build the next transformative technology platform!

About the Role:

We are looking for an experienced platform engineer to work on high impact security aspects of the Confluent Platform. Key challenges and opportunities include collaborating with multiple engineering teams, designing and implementing mission critical features, and an opportunity to show thought leadership in a new space!

Who You Are:

* Smart, humble, and empathetic
* Have a strong sense of teamwork and put team's and company's interests first
* Driven and excited about challenges of a fast-paced, innovative software startup environment

What We're Looking For:

* 5+ years proficiency with Java, Go, or C/ C++
* 3+ years experience designing and implementing cross component or platform wide features
* In-depth experience in one of the following areas: Encryption at Rest, Key Management, Kerberos, LDAP
* Working knowledge of TLS
* Familiar with concepts of big data- Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, NoSql
* A self-starter with the ability to work effectively in team with excellent spoken / written communication
* Familiarity with GDPR, HIPAA or PCI is a plus
* Experience working with hardware security modules is a plus
* Experience working with Kubernetes is a plus
* Experience working with AWS, Azure, GCP is a plus
* Experience working with SQL is a plus