Senior Software Engineer - Product Security (Edmonton)

About the Role As a core member of the Product Security team, you will be at the forefront of creating high‑impact security features for Confluent Cloud and improving our security platform. This role involves designing and implementing identity and access management functionality, as well as scalable authentication and authorization methods like OAuth, mTLS, RBAC and ABAC. You’ll collaborate closely with product, engineering, and InfoSec teams to build frictionless yet secure solutions. Your contributions will directly enhance Confluent Cloud’s security posture and ensure a seamless experience for our customers. What You Will Do Independently drive execution of projects and deploy them to production with a focus on quality and customer impact. Collaborate effectively with a high‑performing team and cross‑functional partners and make decisions which benefit the team and company. Troubleshoot issues, perform root‑cause analysis and improve operations for complex problems that span all clouds. Produce clean, well‑documented, and maintainable code that adheres to established team standards and security best practices. Deliver value for customers by taking on their most challenging problems. What You Will Bring 2–5 years of relevant software, product and/or security engineering experience. Solid fundamentals in distributed systems design and development. Experience building and operating large‑scale systems in the Cloud. Solid understanding of basic systems operations (disk, network, operating systems, etc). Proficiency in Java, Scala, C/C++, Go or other statically typed languages. What Gives You an Edge Experience in both frontend and backend stacks. Experience in the areas of security, identity and access management. Experience/knowledge with public clouds (AWS, Azure or GCP). Interest in evangelism (giving talks at tech conferences, writing blog posts evangelizing IAM and Security concepts). We’re proud to be an equal prospect workplace. Employment decisions are based on 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 law. Apply on Kit Job: kitjob.ca/job/2prg5i