Senior Software Engineer - Networking Traffic Team (United Kingdom)
Job Fit Check
Base Career helps you apply smarter for this job.
Key skills for this role
Role Overview
We are looking for a senior software engineer to help us build the next-generation network data plane to enable our Confluent Cloud platform to achieve 10x the current scale.
This role blends strong independent software development with hands-on operational ownership.
Cloud networking is a strategic investment area with significant potential to impact the company's growth.
The Traffic team is responsible for the network platform of Confluent Cloud with a focus on performance, security, reliability, and cost optimizations for all network traffic that ingresses and egresses a customer's Kafka and DSP deployments as well as all internal service to service traffic on Confluent Cloud.
You will design and build highly scalable, cost efficient, networking data plane solutions, while ensuring these systems are reliable, observable, and resilient in production.
You'll independently drive complex projects from design through production, working closely with engineers across the Traffic team, and help grow more junior engineers along the way.
Key Skills for This Role
Full Job Posting
Your role and responsibilities
- 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:
- We are looking for a senior software engineer to help us build the next-generation network data plane to enable our Confluent Cloud platform to achieve 10x the current scale. This role blends strong independent software development with hands-on operational ownership.
- Cloud networking is a strategic investment area with significant potential to impact the company's growth. The Traffic team is responsible for the network platform of Confluent Cloud with a focus on performance, security, reliability, and cost optimizations for all network traffic that ingresses and egresses a customer's Kafka and DSP deployments as well as all internal service to service traffic on Confluent Cloud.
- You will design and build highly scalable, cost efficient, networking data plane solutions, while ensuring these systems are reliable, observable, and resilient in production. You'll independently drive complex projects from design through production, working closely with engineers across the Traffic team, and help grow more junior engineers along the way.
- Key Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and operationalize high-performance, scalable, reliable, and resilient systems for the Confluent Cloud network data plane platform.
- Independently drive the execution of software projects, delivering complex work in production with a focus on quality.
- Leverage cloud providers and open-source software to deliver impactful business solutions.
- Troubleshoot and improve operations for a complex technical stack that spans across AWS, Azure, and GCP, including microservices, containers, and virtualization.
- Mentor junior engineers on the team, helping them grow their technical skills and engineering judgment.
ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT
IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence—from machine learning to generative AI—to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM’s AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM’s hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments—a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.
YOUR LIFE @ IBM
In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.
Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.
Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.
Are you ready to be an IBMer?
ABOUT IBM
IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.
Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.
At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.
ABOUT IBM
IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.
About IBM United Kingdom Limited
Verified company details for this employer are not available yet.
Apply for this job in 1 click
Skip the repetitive application forms
Install the Base Career Chrome Extension and autofill job applications across major job boards with your profile.
Trusted by over 500,000 job seekers on Base Career
More from this employer
More jobs at IBM United Kingdom Limited
Data Scientist - AI - Senior Managing Consultant
London, GBR
Data Scientist - AI - Senior Managing Consultant
London, GBR
Global Security – Red Team Operator - X-Force Red
London, GBR
Digital & Technology Solutions Degree Apprentice-Full Stack Application Developer
London, GBR
Data Scientist - AI - Senior Managing Consultant
London, GBR
Project Manager-Cloud Manage
, GBR
Data Scientist - AI - Senior Managing Consultant
London, GBR
Business Sales Lead Oracle Services
London, GBR
Global Security – Red Team Operator - X-Force Red
London, GBR
Data Scientist - AI - Managing Consultant
London, GBR
Senior Complex Programme Manager
London, GBR
Digital & Technology Solutions Degree Apprentice-Full Stack Application Developer
London, GBR