Careers in Development: What It’s Like to be a Software Engineer in the Observability Team at Confluent

Ratish, a Senior Software Engineer on Confluent’s Observability Platform team, joined the company after nine years at LinkedIn to expand his skills and work alongside engineers he respected. His team develops platforms and APIs that provide customers and internal teams with logging, metrics, and operational insights across on-premises and cloud environments. A key project involves optimizing infrastructure costs while preserving the availability and reliability of data systems, illustrating how small technical improvements can produce meaningful business savings. Ratish describes a remote-first workday centered on communication, long-term engineering projects, collaboration during on-call incidents, and supporting colleagues across teams. He characterizes Confluent’s culture as empathetic, collaborative, and inclusive, and credits his lengthy tenure at LinkedIn with building the experience, relationships, confidence, and skills that support his continued development at Confluent. For an ideal team off-site, he would choose the Bahamas.

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