Careers in Development: What It’s Like to Work as a Software Engineer in Confluent’s India Team

Keerthana Srikanth, a computer science graduate from BITS Pilani, joined Confluent’s Observability India Team as a software engineer after completing a six-month internship, where she became interested in Kafka and experienced the company’s collaborative culture. As part of the Notifications Service Team, she helps build a centralized, customizable platform for customer notifications across Confluent products, while contributing to feature planning, technical design, coding, testing, onboarding internal users, and debugging. She describes Confluent as a remote-first but highly connected workplace that encourages engineers, including junior developers, to consider product improvements and business needs beyond their assigned coding tasks. Keerthana highlights mentorship, meaningful internship work, approachable colleagues, and a culture of ownership as important parts of her professional development. Her advice to new developers is to recognize the differences between academic and professional engineering, weigh practical trade-offs, learn efficiently without needing to master every technology immediately, ask questions, listen closely, and take initiative beyond daily responsibilities.

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