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.
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.
One Data Streaming Platform.
We are building Kafka Connect charter which is core for scalable and reliable streaming data between Apache Kafka® and other data systems. It makes it easy to quickly define connectors that move large data sets in and out of Kafka. Kafka Connect can ingest entire databases or collect metrics from all your application servers into Kafka topics, making the data available for stream processing with low latency. An export connector can deliver data from Kafka topics into secondary indexes like Elasticsearch, or into batch systems–such as Hadoop for offline analysis.
We are looking for a Principal Engineer to lead the technical vision, architecture, execution,
and operations of core engineering teams that build Confluent's industry-leading Kafka Connectors.. Work with a strong team of engineers to help evolve Confluent Connect. Work closely with product management, engineering leadership, and other key stakeholders across various teams in Confluent to build and drive the overall roadmap.
Drive the long-term direction and strategy of Confluent Kafka connectors, while partnering with internal stakeholders to drive the team's mission forward
Mentor a team of high-performing engineers and leads, helping them to continue in growing their skill set through hands-on experience and mentorship. Be a strong technical leader and representative for engineering teams in India. Nurture a culture of excellence on the team through a focus on hiring, communication, execution, and work quality. Continue a strong growth trajectory by hiring top tier engineers, and establish quality standards, design principles, and operational maturity for the team
Master's Degree
Minimum of 15+ years of hands-on software development experience with the ability to anticipate future technical needs for the product and craft plans to realize them.
Ready to roll up your sleeves - code, debug, design - do whatever it takes to ship the product to production.
Experience building and operating large-scale systems. Experience running production services in public clouds.
Timely shipping of deliverables; being able to trade-off short term technical decisions with the long term. Strong mentorship track record, guiding the team in building out complex systems, and helping them in their professional development.
Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent experience. Understanding of various technologies, programming paradigms and frameworks is needed. Ability to take on intense customer production issues on-call; This requires patient log and metrics analysis with solid reasoning to nail the issue.
📌 Principal Engineer - Database (Kochi)
🏢 IBM
📍 Kochi