Technical Support Engineer

What You Will Do:

  • Working with customers to resolve a wide range of issues with their Confluent deployments
  • Contributing to process development – we’re a small team, so we’re looking for people who want to help us lay the foundation for growing efficiently and with a best-in-class culture
  • Communicating with our core engineering team to provide real-time product feedback from the field
  • Improving product documentation and authoring knowledge base articles
  • Creating and reviewing product demos and internal tooling
  • Working closely with the team behind Apache Kafka!

What You Will Bring:

  • Excitement in learning about streaming data and becoming a domain expert in Apache Kafka
  • Experience in diagnosing, reproducing, and resolving customer issues
  • Desire to make customers successful through direct interaction Two out of these three:
  • Experience troubleshooting applications running on Linux (resource contention, network bottlenecks, etc.)
  • Operational knowledge of Java applications (stack, jmap, etc.)
  • Experience with at least one mainstream distributed system (e.g. Kafka, Hadoop, Cassandra, etc.)