Staff Software Engineer II- Security Platform

\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003eWe’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.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003eIt 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.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003eOne Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.\u003c/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Role:\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/h2\u003e\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003eWe are seeking a Staff 2 Security Platform Engineer to architect, build, and operate security services that are core to the company’s cloud infrastructure and product platforms. This is a hybrid engineering role, blending deep software development expertise with hands-on operational excellence.\u003cbr /\u003eYou will design highly scalable security services (authentication, authorization, identity, secrets management, policy enforcement, security telemetry pipelines, etc.), while also ensuring these systems are reliable, observable, and resilient in production. You’ll work across engineering, security, compliance, and platform orgs to deliver secure-by-default building blocks that empower product teams to integrate security seamlessly.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat You Will Do:\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/h2\u003e\u003cul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003eArchitect, design, and develop security platform services with a strong focus on scalability, security, and developer experience.\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003eLead operational design for reliability: build comprehensive observability, monitoring, and incident response automation into security-critical services.\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003eBuild automation and tooling to drive self-healing systems, proactive risk detection, failure recovery, and continuous resilience testing.\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003eCollaborate with compliance, governance, and risk teams to translate regulatory and policy requirements into scalable technical controls.\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003eLead technical design reviews, security architecture reviews, and incident postmortems for platform-level incidents.\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003eMentor engineers across multiple disciplines on both security and operational best practices.\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003eOwn end-to-end delivery of services: from initial design and development through deployment, production hardening, and lifecycle maintenance.\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003c/ul\u003e\u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat You Will Bring:\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/h2\u003e\u003cul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003e10+ years of experience in software engineering, SRE, or security engineering roles, with significant experience operating security platform services.\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003eStrong backend software development experience (Go, Java, Rust, Python).\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003eExpertise with distributed systems, cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure), Kubernetes, service mesh, and container orchestration.\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003eStrong understanding of security domains: IAM, OAuth2, OIDC, PKI, secrets management, policy engines, audit pipelines, zero trust architecture.\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003eExperience building highly reliable, observable, and resilient production systems.\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003eOperational expertise: SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, on-call leadership, incident management.\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003eStrong collaboration skills to drive alignment across engineering, security, and compliance stakeholders.\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003eExcellent communication skills with ability to influence technical and business leaders.\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003c/ul\u003e\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat Gives You an Edge: \u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/h2\u003e\u003cul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003eExperience with SPIFFE/SPIRE, OPA/Gatekeeper, Envoy, Istio, and workload identity management.\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003eExposure to security compliance frameworks (FedRAMP).\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003eExperience leading cross-org security platform architecture initiatives.\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003c/ul\u003e\u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReady to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.\u003c/strong\u003e\u003h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c/h3\u003e\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003ch1\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCome As You Are\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/h1\u003e\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003eBelonging isn’t a perk here. It’s the baseline. We work across time zones and backgrounds, knowing the best ideas come from different perspectives. And we make space for everyone to lead, grow, and challenge what’s possible.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003eWe’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.\u003c/p\u003e