Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Intern

Confluent

Feb 18

Applications are closed

Internship
Full-time
Off-cycle Internship
Software Engineering

Requirements

Creativity & imagination: Software is part science and part art - creative “outside the box” thinking can take you a long way.
Patience & attention to detail: Thinking through a solution and paying attention to the details to ensure that successful last 20% of a project will set you up for success
Curiosity and proactivity: Dissecting how systems work to understand their behaviour and going as far as possible in discovering different learning areas.
Humility & empathy: Nobody wants to work with a “brilliant jerk” persona. We value these human qualities to provide a better working environment for all.
Distributed systems: Having a broad understanding of distributed systems can make the difference in hitting the ground running and being effective in our organisation.
Team spirit: We’re looking for team players - people able to help, support, and work in a team as a “great” team.
Knowledge of software/programming languages: Most successful candidates will already have good knowledge of at least two programming languages (Golang is a plus).
Good communication and presentation skills: Our platform evolves at pace - effective communication is critical in our highly technical environment.
Analytical skills: Much like debugging software, often, our research and development work relies on spotting patterns. An analytical persona will be compelling with us.
Enthusiasm / “GSD” attitude: You must be enthusiastic and have a “can-do” attitude. You won’t have all the answers - we expect you to balance self-learning alongside asking your colleagues and mentors to get the job done.
Must be located in UK

Responsibilities

Research and proactivity - interns and full-time employees alike are expected to define our technical roadmap through their knowledge and research of the problem domain.
Design - we use a lightweight “one-pager” architecture process to propose changes, solicit feedback and collaborate across teams for change control.
Implementation - this is where you’re likely to spend most of your time.
Golang code - typically Kubernetes operators - to manage container-based cloud infrastructure
Infrastructure - ownership of cloud infrastructure through IaC methodologies (e.g. Terraform)
Persistence layer (databases & streams) - managing Postgres or Kafka persistence systems
UX - creating management and developer tooling for use by colleagues outside of your team
Security - our customers trust us with their data, and we must maintain security best practices throughout our platform
Testing - we pride ourselves on a well-tested codebase with high levels of code coverage and end-to-end testing (CI/CD pipelines)
Continuous improvement - Keeping up-to-date with recent technological and software developments
Proudness - You build it, and you run it! With our support, we expect you to be proud, enthusiastic, responsible and accountable for your deliverables, maintenance and setting solid foundations for future evolution.

Confluent

Technology

Industry

1001-5000

Employees

2014

Founded Year

Mission & Purpose

Confluent is pioneering a fundamentally new category of data infrastructure focused on data in motion. Our cloud-native offering is the foundational platform for data in motion, designed to be the intelligent connective tissue enabling real-time data, from multiple sources, to constantly stream across the organisation. With Confluent, our customers can meet the new business imperative of delivering rich, digital customer experiences and real-time business operations. Our mission is to help every organisation harness data in motion so they can compete and thrive in the modern world.