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Data Engineer, Security Analytics
Wayve
Sunnyvale, CA
- $186,100 to $243,300 USD / year
As a Data Engineer, you’ll join the Security team and build the data and automation capabilities that underpin our security program. You’ll work across Security to design scalable data…
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General Maintenance Engineer
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Elwood, IL
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Embedded Software Senior Engineer
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Senior Data Engineer | Remote
Kelly Services
Remote, United States
…initiatives. This is a fully remote, full-time opportunity focused on building scalable data solutions using Databricks, Python, and modern cloud data engineering practices. You'll work on…
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…team - including direct oversight of the Principal Quality Engineer, AI Controls Engineering role - , manages critical partnerships and contracts, and champions continuous process…
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Senior Director Software Engineering
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Technical Product Manager, Legal AI and Platforms
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Staff Software Engineer - Compiler & Spark Runtime
Snowflake
Menlo Park, CA · Bellevue, WA
- $236,000 to $339,200 USD / year
Staff Software Engineer – Compiler & Spark Runtime
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Software Engineer/Clinical Informatics
TEKsystems
Chicago, IL
- $50 to $70 USD / hour
Were seeking a software engineer with strong clinical informatics experience. In this role, you will work within the award-winning Applications team to design, build, and deploy software…

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Confluent - Principal Engineer

Raleigh, NC, United States
DURHAM, NC, United States
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC, United States

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Posted: Nov 5, 2026

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Introduction

At IBM Software, we transform client challenges into solutions. Building the world’s leading AI-powered, cloud-native products that shape the future of business and society. Our legacy of innovation creates endless opportunities for IBMers to learn, grow, and make an impact on a global scale. Working in Software means joining a team fueled by curiosity and collaboration. You’ll work with diverse technologies, partners, and industries to design, develop, and deliver solutions that power digital transformation. With a culture that values innovation, growth, and continuous learning, IBM Software places you at the heart of IBM’s product and technology landscape. Here, you’ll have the tools and opportunities to advance your career while creating software that changes the world.

Your role and responsibilities

Join us in building the next generation of Confluent Cloud, shaping how the world builds data systems. We help organizations put data in motion: capturing, transporting, and transforming it to meet the growing demand for real-time information.

Behind this experience is the Cloud Control Plane, the globally distributed systems that manage customer resources across clouds and regions. We provide the shared capabilities that help Confluent teams manage resources consistently, including and services for resource metadata and API management, as well as customer-facing capabilities for resource management.

As a Principal Engineer, you’ll shape the direction of these foundational systems, lead high-impact initiatives, and raise the bar for reliability, quality, and operations. You’ll work across engineering and product teams to advance our vision for resource management in Confluent Cloud, while helping engineers and technical leaders grow.

What you’ll do

Set and communicate a long-term technical vision for the Confluent Cloud Control Plane, working closely with engineering and product leadership

Lead large-scale, cross-organizational projects from design to delivery. Balance working broadly while keeping hands-on with our code and systems.

Raise the bar for quality, availability, resilience and scalability, and be a driving force to improve our development and operational processes. Be a voice for and model the effective and responsible use of AI throughout the development lifecycle.

Coach and mentor engineers and others to develop talent and foster a supportive engineering culture

Partner across the company to understand and influence strategy and architecture in support of our vision for Confluent Cloud resource management

Required technical and professional expertise

Extensive experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems, including systems that are globally distributed with high availability

Strong fundamentals in distributed systems, including consistency and coordination, performance and operational characteristics and real-world settings

A track record of setting technical strategy, partnering across engineering and product teams to set direction, and executing on a roadmap

Strong customer focus and ability to work closely with product teams to shape our overall roadmap

A collaborative approach to leadership and strong communication skills

Preferred technical and professional experience

Experience building multi-cloud systems, cloud control planes, or distributed key-value stores or databases

An understanding and real-world experience with Kubernetes internals or contributions to the Kubernetes codebase

Curiosity, thoughtfulness and experience building and operating systems with AI-driven tools and approaches

Experience with data streaming systems, such as Kafka and Flink

IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and 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, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

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