Staff Software Engineer - Flink Control Plane
Company: Confluent
Location: San Diego
Posted on: February 17, 2026
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Job Description:
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. About the Role: The Flink Platform team is
at the forefront of building a robust control plane for the Flink
product, leveraging advanced database storage to ensure high
reliability and efficiency. With a vision centered on innovation
and excellence, this team is critical to advancing Confluents Data
in Motion initiative and is committed to supplying the industry
with solutions that cater to evolving stream processing demands.
What You Will Do: • Developing the control plane services that
orchestrate Flink job lifecycles (submission, scaling, recovery).
Building Kubernetes operators and orchestrators for serverless
resource management. Designing APIs for job management,
multi-tenancy, and isolation. • Following a holistic development
approach you will be responsible for the code quality, test
coverage, documentation and maintainability of the components you
and your team work on. • Designing Components: You will not only
implement aspects of Flink Control Plane but also draft designs,
discuss them and curate and moderate a decision with involved
stakeholders. • Team: As part of the team you will help to follow
and maintain processes, by being an active part of the team,
leading meetings and taking initiatives where feasible and
participating in on-call rotations. • Mentoring: You will mentor
other engineers with less experience in Control plane architecture
to get started in the community and more junior developers to get
into the area of serverless Apache Flink. What You Will Bring: • 10
years of relevant software development experience. • Technical
Expertise: Deep knowledge of distributed systems orchestration
(e.g., Kubernetes, control loops). Experience building high-scale
control planes, API servers, or cloud-native infrastructure.
Knowledge of containerization, networking, and resource isolation.
• Problem Solving: Strong problem-solving skills, capable of
translating complex requirements into effective solutions. •
Communication: Excellent communication skills, both written and
verbal, with the ability to collaborate across teams.
Keywords: Confluent, La Mesa , Staff Software Engineer - Flink Control Plane, IT / Software / Systems , San Diego, California
