Associate Technical Support Engineer

With Confluent, organizations 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 organization 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:Technical Support Engineers work at the intersection of our client services and engineering teams and drive customer success by helping identify and resolve critical business issues. In this role you will interact directly with our customers to provide software development and operations expertise, leveraging deep knowledge of best practices in the use of Apache Kafka, the broader Confluent Platform, as well as complementary systems. You will be hands-on in fixing issues seen by Confluent customers and contributing fixes back to the open source community. Throughout all of these interactions, you will build strong relationships with customers, ensuring exemplary support and timely resolution to customer requests.What You Will Do:Working with customers to resolve a wide range of issues with their Confluent deploymentsContributing to process development - we are a small team, so we are looking for people who want to help us lay the foundation for growing efficiently and with a best-in-class cultureCommunicating with our core engineering team to provide real-time product feedback from the fieldImproving product documentation and authoring knowledge base articlesCreating and reviewing product demos and internal toolingWorking closely with the team behind Apache Kafka!What You Will Bring:1+ years of related experienceMust be able to work PST timezoneExcitement in learning about streaming data and becoming a domain expert in Apache KafkaExperience in diagnosing, reproducing, and resolving customer issuesDesire to make customers successful through direct interactionTwo out of these three:Experience troubleshooting applications running on Linux (resource contention, network bottlenecks, etc.)Operational knowledge of Java applications (jstack,jmap, etc.)Experience with at least one mainstream distributed system (e.g. Kafka, Hadoop, Cassandra, etc.)Come As You AreAt Confluent, equality is a core tenet of our culture. We are committed to building an inclusive global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences. The more diverse we are, the richer our community and the broader our impact. Employment decisions are made on the basis of job-related criteria without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other classification protected by applicable law.At Confluent, we are committed to providing competitive pay and benefits that are in line with industry standards. We analyze and carefully consider several factors when determining compensation, including work history, education, professional experience, and location. This position has an hourly estimated pay of $39 - $45 / hour. The actual pay may vary depending on your skills, qualifications, experience, and work location. In addition, Confluent offers a wide range of employee benefits. To learn more about our benefits click HERE ( .Click HERE ( to review our Candidate Privacy Notice which describes how and when Confluent, Inc., and its group companies, collects, uses, and shares certain personal information of California job applicants and prospective employees.#LI-Remote