Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Intern

Position at Confluent Europe Ltd.

With Confluent, organisations can harness the full power of continuously flowing data to innovate and win in the modern digital world. We have a purpose that drives us to do better every day – we're creating an entirely new category within data infrastructure - data streaming. This technology will allow every organisation to create experiences and use the power of data in ways that profoundly impact the way we all live. This impact is our purpose and drives us to do better every day.

One Confluent. One team. One Data Streaming Platform.

Data Connects Us.

About the Role :

Confluent is one of the 2,000 largest companies globally (by market cap) and is the pioneer of the Data in Motion movement. Founded by the creators of Apache Kafka out of LinkedIn in Silicon Valley, data in motion is becoming a foundational part of modern companies. Confluent’s cloud-native platform is designed to unleash real-time data. It acts as a central nervous system in companies, letting them connect all their applications around real-time streams and react and respond intelligently to everything that happens in their business.

Your role will contribute to the entire application lifecycle of our control-plane software (Golang), which orchestrates 10,000s of VMs in our multi-cloud (AWS, GCP & Azure) Kubernetes platform. We run 100,000s of containers, so you’ll become familiar with enhancing the existing tech stack, including monitoring.

Apache Kafka technology powers over 80% of the world's largest companies. You’ll be working on our hosted offering (Confluent Cloud), which powers many big-name businesses such as : , Bosch, CapitalOne, Citigroup, Deutsche Bahn, Domino’s, eBay, Expedia, Intel, Nationwide, Priceline, Ticketmaster, Urban Outfitters

What You Will Do :

• 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 infrastructureInfrastructure - ownership of cloud infrastructure through IaC methodologies (. Terraform)Persistence layer (databases & streams) - managing Postgres or Kafka persistence systemsUX - creating management and developer tooling for use by colleagues outside of your teamSecurity - 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.

What You Will Bring :

What Gives You an Edge :

Come As You Are

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