Staff Software Engineer - Apache Kafka

Confluent
Warsaw
Workplace: RemoteFull timePLN 636,200 - 756,850 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 4+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Leadership","Mentorship","Influence","Collaboration"]

Staff Software Engineer at Confluent working across the Apache Kafka stack (Clients, Streams, Broker, backend services) to build features, review designs, and improve performance. You’ll collaborate with the Apache Kafka community, mentor engineers, drive complex projects, uphold high software standards, and influence roadmaps with product and engineering leadership.

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4 months ago

Staff Software Engineer - Apache Kafka

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Job Summary

Staff Software Engineer at Confluent working across the Apache Kafka stack (Clients, Streams, Broker, backend services) to build features, review designs, and improve performance. You’ll collaborate with the Apache Kafka community, mentor engineers, drive complex projects, uphold high software standards, and influence roadmaps with product and engineering leadership.
Location: Warsaw
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Collaborate with the Apache Kafka community via KIPs, code contributions, reviews, and technical discussions; represent Confluent’s interests while keeping the broader ecosystem in mind.
  • •Drive projects that have high complexity requiring technical acumen, a high level of judgement and able to deal with ambiguity.
  • •Be a force multiplier and show strong ability to mentor and grow the team with guidance on strong design principles and software architecture.
  • •Insist on high standards for the quality of software the team is developing.
  • •Communicate with product management and engineering leaders on the roadmap, understand the specs and the product interfaces.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: PLN 636,200 - 756,850 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Remote WorkEquity

Key Requirements

  • •4+ years driving staff-level or equivalent technical initiatives across multiple teams or components.
  • •Track record of delivering complex systems projects with large scope (multi quarter design and development) leading a team of engineers.
  • •Demonstrated ability to mentor senior engineers and enable delivery on high-risk, high-impact projects.
  • •Ability to lead through ambiguity, set direction, and align multiple teams around complex technical plans.
  • •Prior experience as a committer/PMC or core maintainer on Apache Kafka or a similar project.
Experience:4+ yearsApache KafkaBack-endDistributed systems
Skills:CommunicationLeadershipMentorshipInfluenceCollaboration
Languages:English
Tech Stack:Apache KafkaKIPsCode reviewsAI tools for codingBackend

Company Brief

Confluent
Provides a cloud-native data streaming platform built on Apache Kafka that enables organizations to harness real-time data for event streaming, analytics, and AI applications across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
Industry: Data Infrastructure
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 500M to 1B
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Mountain View, United States
Founded: 2014
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