Job Description

Employment Type: Full-Time Location Type: Remote

Position Overview

Confluent is revolutionizing data streaming, enabling companies to react faster, build smarter, and deliver dynamic experiences. We are seeking an experienced engineer to join our cloud security team and lead initiatives to enhance Confluent’s cloud security maturity. This role offers a significant opportunity to utilize your software engineering and cloud security expertise to build foundational services and controls for securing our infrastructure. Success will depend on your ability to develop tools and automation for scaling our environments. You will collaborate closely with peers in the Trust & Security organization and engineers across the company.

Our mission is to be the world's best, fastest, and most complete stream processing service, built by an excellent team having fun. Join us on this journey!

Responsibilities

• Develop internal services and tools to identify and surface vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and violations of best practices for developers.
• Design and implement automated solutions to monitor the security posture of our cloud environments.
• Utilize Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to enable secure-by-default configurations, establishing and improving security baselines.
• Perform security reviews of internal infrastructure and products for partner teams within Confluent Engineering.
• Participate in a security on-call rotation for triaging and remediating security incidents, working collaboratively with engineering teams.
• Contribute to the strategy and prioritization of engineering efforts related to cloud security.

Requirements

• 7+ years of relevant industry experience in a security engineering or infrastructure security team.
• Strong coding proficiency in Python or Go.
• Demonstrated experience in developing internal services and tooling for vulnerability management and cloud security posture management.
• Experience deploying solutions for monitoring best practices in cloud resources, CI/CD pipelines, and Kubernetes platforms.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Familiarity with more than one cloud vendor (AWS, GCP, Azure) is a plus.
• Ability to work effectively with a remote team, employing a data-driven mindset to propose and own engineering decisions.

Company Information

We’re not just building better tech. We’re rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real-time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them.

It takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together.

One Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.

Our Culture

Belonging isn’t a perk here. It’s the baseline. We work across time zones and backgrounds, knowing the best ideas come from different perspectives. We make space for everyone to lead, grow, and challenge what’s possible.

We’re proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Employment decisions are based on job-related criteria, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other classification protected by law.

Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion. Come As You Are.