We’re not just building better tech. We’re rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real-time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them.
It takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together.
One Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.
Confluent Cloud processes millions of events per second across AWS, GCP, and Azure. When incidents happen in a multi-cloud streaming platform, they happen at scale—data in motion, exactly-once semantics, and cascading failure modes that require deep systems thinking. We need an expert-level engineer who can drive proactive reliability improvements that prevent these incidents before they occur.
This role combines hands-on technical work with strategic program ownership. You'll spend roughly 75% of your time on engineering: building automation, improving tooling, analyzing systemic failure patterns, and designing reliability improvements. The remaining 25% is teaching and coordination: coaching teams through post-mortems, training incident commanders, and evolving our incident response practices.
You'll be part of a global team with follow-the-sun coverage, with clean handoffs that keep everyone working sustainable hours. Confluent has 800-1000 engineers across highly autonomous teams. This role sits within Cloud Architecture and Reliability - Supportability (CAR-S), a horizontal team that owns reliability standards and tooling across engineering. You're the person who makes us need incident management less.
Proactive Reliability Engineering (~75% of role) · Analyze systemic failure patterns and design improvements that prevent incident recurrence · Define and maintain SLO/SLA frameworks; use error budgets to guide reliability investments · Build tooling and automation to reduce incident response toil and scale team impact · Own Rootly configuration, workflows, and integrations with PagerDuty, Jira, Confluence, and Slack · Analyze reliability data to identify systemic improvements; build dashboards that drive action · Explore AI-assisted approaches to documentation quality and incident analysis · Design scalable reliability standards that reduce reactive workload over time.
Incident Management Program (~25% of role) · Own standards, practices, and continuous improvement of incident response · Serve as an on-call Incident Commander for production incidents, including acting as escalation IC when incidents exceed a team's management chain · Develop and deliver training programs for engineering teams at all levels · Coach teams through post-mortems and on developing actionable corrective actions
Customer Root Cause Analysis (CRCA) · Edit and review customer-facing incident documents to ensure quality and clarity · Drive turnaround SLAs while maintaining technical accuracy · Ensure clear explanation of what happened, why, and how we'll prevent recurrence
Cross-Team Leadership · Partner with engineering leaders to elevate reliability practices · Be the expert who teams proactively engage for guidance
10+ years in SRE, incident management, or reliability engineering · Cloud experience with at least one of AWS, GCP, or Azure·
Deep expertise with incident management tooling (Rootly, PagerDuty, or similar platforms)
Strong understanding of distributed systems and failure modes at scale—Kafka/event streaming expertise preferred, or demonstrated rapid mastery of complex systems
Deep experience with observability: metrics, logging, tracing—ability to diagnose complex issues · Kubernetes and container orchestration experience · Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and release processes · Systems thinking: understanding how infrastructure design choices affect failure modes and recovery · Familiarity with SLO/SLA frameworks.
Track record as a trusted advisor across engineering organizations · Experience driving org-wide process and cultural changes · Strong written communication (design docs, one-pagers, runbooks) · Post-mortem facilitation experience · Experience with async collaboration across time zones
Large company experience navigating reliability/incident programs at 500+ engineer organizations·
Multi-cloud experience (minimum 2+ of AWS/GCP/Azure).
Modern CI/CD, GitHub, AI-assisted workflows—you'll have the freedom to build what you need
Belonging isn’t a perk here. It’s the baseline. We work across time zones and backgrounds, knowing the best ideas come from different perspectives. And we make space for everyone to lead, grow, and challenge what’s possible.
We’re proud to be an equal opportunity 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.
Confluent is an IBM subsidiary which has been acquired by IBM and will be integrated into the IBM organization. By proceeding with this application, you understand that Confluent will share your personal information with other IBM affiliates involved in your recruitment process, wherever these are located. More Information on how IBM protects your personal information, including the safeguards in case of cross-border data transfer, are available here.
","descriptionPlain":"We’re not just building better tech. We’re rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real-time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them.\n\nIt takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together.\n\nOne Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.\n\n\nABOUT THE ROLE:\n\nConfluent Cloud processes millions of events per second across AWS, GCP, and Azure. When incidents happen in a multi-cloud streaming platform, they happen at scale—data in motion, exactly-once semantics, and cascading failure modes that require deep systems thinking. We need an expert-level engineer who can drive proactive reliability improvements that prevent these incidents before they occur.\n\nThis role combines hands-on technical work with strategic program ownership. You'll spend roughly 75% of your time on engineering: building automation, improving tooling, analyzing systemic failure patterns, and designing reliability improvements. The remaining 25% is teaching and coordination: coaching teams through post-mortems, training incident commanders, and evolving our incident response practices.\n\nYou'll be part of a global team with follow-the-sun coverage, with clean handoffs that keep everyone working sustainable hours. Confluent has 800-1000 engineers across highly autonomous teams. This role sits within Cloud Architecture and Reliability - Supportability (CAR-S), a horizontal team that owns reliability standards and tooling across engineering. You're the person who makes us need incident management less.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL DO:\n\n - Proactive Reliability Engineering (~75% of role) · Analyze systemic failure patterns and design improvements that prevent incident recurrence · Define and maintain SLO/SLA frameworks; use error budgets to guide reliability investments · Build tooling and automation to reduce incident response toil and scale team impact · Own Rootly configuration, workflows, and integrations with PagerDuty, Jira, Confluence, and Slack · Analyze reliability data to identify systemic improvements; build dashboards that drive action · Explore AI-assisted approaches to documentation quality and incident analysis · Design scalable reliability standards that reduce reactive workload over time.\n\n - Incident Management Program (~25% of role) · Own standards, practices, and continuous improvement of incident response · Serve as an on-call Incident Commander for production incidents, including acting as escalation IC when incidents exceed a team's management chain · Develop and deliver training programs for engineering teams at all levels · Coach teams through post-mortems and on developing actionable corrective actions\n\n - Customer Root Cause Analysis (CRCA) · Edit and review customer-facing incident documents to ensure quality and clarity · Drive turnaround SLAs while maintaining technical accuracy · Ensure clear explanation of what happened, why, and how we'll prevent recurrence\n\n - Cross-Team Leadership · Partner with engineering leaders to elevate reliability practices · Be the expert who teams proactively engage for guidance\n \n \n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL BRING:\n\n - 10+ years in SRE, incident management, or reliability engineering · Cloud experience with at least one of AWS, GCP, or Azure·\n\n - Deep expertise with incident management tooling (Rootly, PagerDuty, or similar platforms)\n\n - Strong understanding of distributed systems and failure modes at scale—Kafka/event streaming expertise preferred, or demonstrated rapid mastery of complex systems\n\n - Deep experience with observability: metrics, logging, tracing—ability to diagnose complex issues · Kubernetes and container orchestration experience · Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and release processes · Systems thinking: understanding how infrastructure design choices affect failure modes and recovery · Familiarity with SLO/SLA frameworks.\n\n - Track record as a trusted advisor across engineering organizations · Experience driving org-wide process and cultural changes · Strong written communication (design docs, one-pagers, runbooks) · Post-mortem facilitation experience · Experience with async collaboration across time zones\n\n - Large company experience navigating reliability/incident programs at 500+ engineer organizations·\n\n\n\n\nWHAT GIVES YOU AN EDGE:\n\n - Multi-cloud experience (minimum 2+ of AWS/GCP/Azure).\n\n - Modern CI/CD, GitHub, AI-assisted workflows—you'll have the freedom to build what you need\n\n\nREADY TO BUILD WHAT'S NEXT? LET’S GET IN MOTION.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCOME AS YOU ARE\n\nBelonging isn’t a perk here. It’s the baseline. We work across time zones and backgrounds, knowing the best ideas come from different perspectives. And we make space for everyone to lead, grow, and challenge what’s possible.\n\nWe’re proud to be an equal opportunity 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.\n\n\n\n\nPRIVACY STATEMENT\n\nConfluent is an IBM subsidiary which has been acquired by IBM and will be integrated into the IBM organization. By proceeding with this application, you understand that Confluent will share your personal information with other IBM affiliates involved in your recruitment process, wherever these are located. 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We’re rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real-time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them.
It takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together.
One Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.
As a Senior Software Engineer II at Confluent, you will take ownership of critical backend systems in Stream Governance products that underpin our data streaming platform. You’ll lead the design and delivery of large-scale, distributed services that must be secure, highly available, and easy to operate across regions and clouds.
The Stream Governance product portfolio is crucial to achieving Confluent’s mission to put event streaming at the heart of every organization. Our mission is to provide a robust, cloud-native platform that ensures data quality and integrity by standardizing structure and enforcing intelligent rules across every stream. You will be responsible for delivering critical functionalities like Confluent Schema Registry, Data Contracts, and Policies.
In this role, you will collaborate closely with the team and key stakeholders to design, architect, and develop cloud-native, multi-tenant services for Stream Governance. You will be responsible for guiding the vision, providing technical leadership, mentoring, and enabling a high-performing engineering team to tackle complex distributed data challenges at scale.
You’ll act as a technical leader: setting direction for projects, making architecture decisions, mentoring engineers, and partnering with cross-functional stakeholders to ship high-impact work.
Develop and architect the cloud-native Stream Governance platform - a multi-tenant, highly available, and scalable service for Kafka and real-time data.
Own and lead the end-to-end design and implementation of complex backend services within a cloud-native, microservices-based environment.
Drive projects from requirements and design through implementation, rollout, and ongoing operation in production.
Make architecture and technical decisions that thoughtfully balance reliability, scalability, performance, and operability.
Solve complicated technical projects with high quality, provide specialized technical guidance to the team, and mentor/support other engineers through code reviews and design reviews.
Evaluate and enhance the efficiency of our platform's technology stack, ensuring we keep pace with industry trends and adopt state-of-the-art solutions.
Take responsibility for developing, managing, and maintaining a mission-critical service with a 99.99 SLA running across 100+ AWS, GCP, and Azure regions.
Partner across engineering and with other key stakeholders to create and execute the overall roadmap for delivering a top-notch Data Streaming Platform.
Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement, inclusive collaboration, and high technical standards.
8+ years of industry experience designing, building, scaling, and operating backend systems in production.
Deep proficiency in at least one major backend programming language (e.g., Java, Go, C/C++, or Python) and strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and system design.
Hands-on experience with distributed systems, such as event-driven architectures, high-throughput services, or large-scale data pipelines. A strong understanding of consistency, fault tolerance, and performance tradeoffs.
Strong experience running production services in a public cloud (AWS, GCP, or Azure), including containerized workloads (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
Expertise in cloud-native technology, including networking & security, and experience being part of an on-call rotation.
Proven experience in leading and mentoring technical teams.
A track record of technical leadership: driving projects, influencing architecture, and coordinating work across multiple engineers or teams.
Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to align stakeholders, explain complex ideas clearly, and drive decisions.
BS, MS, or PhD in computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Experience building or operating mission-critical, multi-tenant, or multi-region services with strict availability and latency requirements.
Familiarity with data streaming technologies such as Apache Kafka, Flink, or similar systems.
Demonstrated impact beyond your immediate team, such as driving cross-org initiatives or technical vision.
Contributions to open source, technical writing, or speaking that showcase technical depth.
Belonging isn’t a perk here. It’s the baseline. We work across time zones and backgrounds, knowing the best ideas come from different perspectives. And we make space for everyone to lead, grow, and challenge what’s possible.
We’re proud to be an equal opportunity 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.
Confluent is an IBM subsidiary which has been acquired by IBM and will be integrated into the IBM organization. By proceeding with this application, you understand that Confluent will share your personal information with other IBM affiliates involved in your recruitment process, wherever these are located. More Information on how IBM protects your personal information, including the safeguards in case of cross-border data transfer, are available here.
","descriptionPlain":"We’re not just building better tech. We’re rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real-time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them.\n\nIt takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together.\n\nOne Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.\n\n\nABOUT THE ROLE:\n\nAs a Senior Software Engineer II at Confluent, you will take ownership of critical backend systems in Stream Governance products that underpin our data streaming platform. 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You will be responsible for guiding the vision, providing technical leadership, mentoring, and enabling a high-performing engineering team to tackle complex distributed data challenges at scale.\n\nYou’ll act as a technical leader: setting direction for projects, making architecture decisions, mentoring engineers, and partnering with cross-functional stakeholders to ship high-impact work.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL DO:\n\n - Develop and architect the cloud-native Stream Governance platform - a multi-tenant, highly available, and scalable service for Kafka and real-time data.\n\n - Own and lead the end-to-end design and implementation of complex backend services within a cloud-native, microservices-based environment.\n\n - Drive projects from requirements and design through implementation, rollout, and ongoing operation in production.\n\n - Make architecture and technical decisions that thoughtfully balance reliability, scalability, performance, and operability.\n\n - Solve complicated technical projects with high quality, provide specialized technical guidance to the team, and mentor/support other engineers through code reviews and design reviews.\n\n - Evaluate and enhance the efficiency of our platform's technology stack, ensuring we keep pace with industry trends and adopt state-of-the-art solutions.\n\n - Take responsibility for developing, managing, and maintaining a mission-critical service with a 99.99 SLA running across 100+ AWS, GCP, and Azure regions.\n\n - Partner across engineering and with other key stakeholders to create and execute the overall roadmap for delivering a top-notch Data Streaming Platform.\n\n - Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement, inclusive collaboration, and high technical standards.\n \n \n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL BRING:\n\n - 8+ years of industry experience designing, building, scaling, and operating backend systems in production.\n\n - Deep proficiency in at least one major backend programming language (e.g., Java, Go, C/C++, or Python) and strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and system design.\n\n - Hands-on experience with distributed systems, such as event-driven architectures, high-throughput services, or large-scale data pipelines. A strong understanding of consistency, fault tolerance, and performance tradeoffs.\n\n - Strong experience running production services in a public cloud (AWS, GCP, or Azure), including containerized workloads (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).\n\n - Expertise in cloud-native technology, including networking & security, and experience being part of an on-call rotation.\n\n - Proven experience in leading and mentoring technical teams.\n\n - A track record of technical leadership: driving projects, influencing architecture, and coordinating work across multiple engineers or teams.\n\n - Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to align stakeholders, explain complex ideas clearly, and drive decisions.\n\n - BS, MS, or PhD in computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT GIVES YOU AN EDGE:\n\n - Experience building or operating mission-critical, multi-tenant, or multi-region services with strict availability and latency requirements.\n\n - Familiarity with data streaming technologies such as Apache Kafka, Flink, or similar systems.\n\n - Demonstrated impact beyond your immediate team, such as driving cross-org initiatives or technical vision.\n\n - Contributions to open source, technical writing, or speaking that showcase technical depth.\n\n\nREADY TO BUILD WHAT'S NEXT? LET’S GET IN MOTION.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCOME AS YOU ARE\n\nBelonging isn’t a perk here. It’s the baseline. We work across time zones and backgrounds, knowing the best ideas come from different perspectives. And we make space for everyone to lead, grow, and challenge what’s possible.\n\nWe’re proud to be an equal opportunity 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.\n\n\n\n\nPRIVACY STATEMENT\n\nConfluent is an IBM subsidiary which has been acquired by IBM and will be integrated into the IBM organization. By proceeding with this application, you understand that Confluent will share your personal information with other IBM affiliates involved in your recruitment process, wherever these are located. More Information on how IBM protects your personal information, including the safeguards in case of cross-border data transfer, are available here http://ibm.com/careers/us-en/privacy-policy/."},{"id":"1946b144-eaa5-482f-b235-63cc06104ecc","title":"Senior Product Manager, Cloud Networking ","department":"Product","team":"Product","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Remote, United States","secondaryLocations":[{"location":"Remote, California","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States"}}},{"location":"Remote, New York","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"New York","addressCountry":"United States"}}}],"publishedAt":"2026-02-27T19:35:31.656+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Remote","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"United States"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/confluent/1946b144-eaa5-482f-b235-63cc06104ecc","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/confluent/1946b144-eaa5-482f-b235-63cc06104ecc/application","descriptionHtml":"We’re not just building better tech. 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It takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together.
One Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.
Confluent Cloud delivers a complete end-to-end streaming experience via a Software as a Service (SaaS) model. To deliver a simple, understandable, and scalable product experience requires abstracting the complex interactions of underlying cloud infrastructure, networking, storage, and compute powering a stateful distributed system.
As a Senior Product Manager on the Cloud Networking Product team, you’ll contribute to the mission of making connectivity to and from Confluent Cloud reliable, scalable, secure, cost efficient and simple to use so that users can focus on building streaming applications instead of managing infrastructure. Cloud networking with focus on private networking is an enabler for all services offered on Confluent Cloud and is a strategic investment area for Confluent with the potential to impact the company’s top and bottom lines.
You’ll be responsible for the success of major product initiatives, from initial conception to execution and launch. You’ll become the trusted resource for your product, making sure that the engineering, design, sales, and marketing have what they need to make the right tradeoffs, build the right product, and grow it successfully in the market.
Understand our users: Conduct interviews and analyze data to define personas, user journeys, and key jobs to be done.
Drive crucial aspects of Confluent Cloud Network Roadmap supporting Confluent Cloud services like Kafka, Flink, Connectors, Data Governance, etc with a heavy focus on user experience and cost efficiency.
Define flexible interfaces powering API, CLI and Terraform, data models, and processes and launch a variety of new network options and rapidly iterate on existing ones
Be responsible for the whole lifecycle: Drive multi-team, cross-functional initiatives from conception through initial delivery and ongoing iteration after launch.
Close the loop: Define quantitative and qualitative targets, measure performance against them, share results with stakeholders, and incorporate those learnings into the product.
Manage complexity: Deliver value while handling the surprises and challenges of a quickly evolving product, ambitious partnership targets, and a rapidly growing organization.
5+ years of experience as a Product Manager with focus on cloud technologies.
Experience building and supporting enterprise-grade products as a product manager, engineer or solutions architect.
Experience building, writing, maintaining and defending a clear product roadmap and backlog backed by user stories and customer research.
Excellent analytical, communication & collaboration skills.
Ability to build relationships with co-workers and customers located around the world.
Demonstrated ability to drive business outcomes through product changes.
6+ years of experience in Networking in a PM or technical role
Experience with enabling AWS/Azure/GCP private networking features such as Private Link, VPC Peering, Transit Gateway, etc for a SaaS product.
Experience with Envoy, Service Mesh, DNS and Kubernetes Networking.
Experience with network traffic metering and billing.
Domain expertise in networking technologies combined with Product Management experience. An MBA degree is a plus.
Belonging isn’t a perk here. It’s the baseline. We work across time zones and backgrounds, knowing the best ideas come from different perspectives. And we make space for everyone to lead, grow, and challenge what’s possible.
We’re proud to be an equal opportunity 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.
Confluent is an IBM subsidiary which has been acquired by IBM and will be integrated into the IBM organization. By proceeding with this application, you understand that Confluent will share your personal information with other IBM affiliates involved in your recruitment process, wherever these are located. More Information on how IBM protects your personal information, including the safeguards in case of cross-border data transfer, are available here.
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It takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together.
One Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.
As a Staff Product Manager in the Kafka Connect team at Confluent, you’ll contribute to the mission of building the world’s best data streaming platform. You will help drive Confluent Connect’s Enterprise feature portfolio. You will also be responsible for enabling seamless, enterprise-grade integration between Kafka and common external systems, and supporting on-premise deployments and managed services in Confluent Cloud. You are expected to use or introduce AI/ML capabilities for the features you are building or enhancing. You will be working with the field on many GTM initiatives and be the focal point for customer success.
You’ll be responsible for the success of a major product initiative, from initial conception and customer development to growth strategy.
You’ll become the trusted resource for your product, making sure that the engineering, design, sales, and marketing have what they need to make the right trade-offs, build the right product, and grow it successfully in the market.
8+ years of experience as a software product manager, ideally for an Enterprise technical product
Empathy for our enterprise customers, and a passion for solving their problems with the software, sometimes being hands-on.
Ability to craft a product strategy and roadmap in concert with customers, engineering, design, and go-to-market teams
Excellent communication skills, including the ability to distill technical concepts to a non-technical audience
Strong technical competency, especially with distributed data systems, public and private clouds, and stream processing
Experience with a modern integration platform is a plus
Experience with Enterprise software features like security, networking, observability is a plus
MBA is a strong plus
Bachelor's, Master’s, or Ph.D. in Computer Science or related technical field
Belonging isn’t a perk here. It’s the baseline. We work across time zones and backgrounds, knowing the best ideas come from different perspectives. And we make space for everyone to lead, grow, and challenge what’s possible.
We’re proud to be an equal opportunity 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.
Confluent is an IBM subsidiary which has been acquired by IBM and will be integrated into the IBM organization. By proceeding with this application, you understand that Confluent will share your personal information with other IBM affiliates involved in your recruitment process, wherever these are located. More Information on how IBM protects your personal information, including the safeguards in case of cross-border data transfer, are available here.
","descriptionPlain":"We’re not just building better tech. We’re rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real-time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them.\n\nIt takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together.\n\nOne Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.\n\n\nABOUT THE ROLE:\n\nAs a Staff Product Manager in the Kafka Connect team at Confluent, you’ll contribute to the mission of building the world’s best data streaming platform. You will help drive Confluent Connect’s Enterprise feature portfolio. You will also be responsible for enabling seamless, enterprise-grade integration between Kafka and common external systems, and supporting on-premise deployments and managed services in Confluent Cloud. You are expected to use or introduce AI/ML capabilities for the features you are building or enhancing. You will be working with the field on many GTM initiatives and be the focal point for customer success.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL DO:\n\n - You’ll be responsible for the success of a major product initiative, from initial conception and customer development to growth strategy.\n\n - You’ll become the trusted resource for your product, making sure that the engineering, design, sales, and marketing have what they need to make the right trade-offs, build the right product, and grow it successfully in the market.\n \n \n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL BRING:\n\n - 8+ years of experience as a software product manager, ideally for an Enterprise technical product\n\n - Empathy for our enterprise customers, and a passion for solving their problems with the software, sometimes being hands-on.\n\n - Ability to craft a product strategy and roadmap in concert with customers, engineering, design, and go-to-market teams\n\n - Excellent communication skills, including the ability to distill technical concepts to a non-technical audience\n\n - Strong technical competency, especially with distributed data systems, public and private clouds, and stream processing\n\n - Experience with a modern integration platform is a plus\n\n - Experience with Enterprise software features like security, networking, observability is a plus\n\n - MBA is a strong plus\n\n - Bachelor's, Master’s, or Ph.D. in Computer Science or related technical field\n\n\n\n\n\nREADY TO BUILD WHAT'S NEXT? LET’S GET IN MOTION.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCOME AS YOU ARE\n\nBelonging isn’t a perk here. It’s the baseline. We work across time zones and backgrounds, knowing the best ideas come from different perspectives. And we make space for everyone to lead, grow, and challenge what’s possible.\n\nWe’re proud to be an equal opportunity 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.\n\n\n\n\nPRIVACY STATEMENT\n\nConfluent is an IBM subsidiary which has been acquired by IBM and will be integrated into the IBM organization. By proceeding with this application, you understand that Confluent will share your personal information with other IBM affiliates involved in your recruitment process, wherever these are located. More Information on how IBM protects your personal information, including the safeguards in case of cross-border data transfer, are available here http://ibm.com/careers/us-en/privacy-policy/."},{"id":"2966b333-863b-4620-b0f5-220fafe76958","title":"Staff Product Manager, Confluent Cloud Kafka","department":"Product","team":"Product","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Remote, Ontario, Canada","secondaryLocations":[{"location":"Remote, British Columbia, Canada","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"British Columbia","addressCountry":"Canada"}}}],"publishedAt":"2026-02-23T14:19:36.642+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Remote","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"Ontario","addressCountry":"Canada"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/confluent/2966b333-863b-4620-b0f5-220fafe76958","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/confluent/2966b333-863b-4620-b0f5-220fafe76958/application","descriptionHtml":"We’re not just building better tech. We’re rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real-time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them.
It takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together.
One Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.
As a Staff Product Manager in the Cloud Kafka team at Confluent, you’ll contribute to the mission of building the world’s best event streaming platform.
We are seeking an experienced and strategic Product Manager to lead the vision, strategy, and execution for our Kafka Operator experience. This role is critical to simplifying the deployment, management, and scaling of Confluent Cloud Kafka environments for our enterprise customers. The ideal candidate has a strong technical background in cloud systems, familiarity with the Apache Kafka ecosystem, and a proven track record of delivering successful developer and operator-focused products.
Key responsibilities include defining and owning the product strategy and vision for the Cloud Kafka Operator, conducting market research and competitive analysis, translating strategic objectives into comprehensive product and user experience requirements, collaborating with Engineering, UX/UI Design, Documentation, Support, and Field teams throughout the product lifecycle, and working with Product marketing to define and execute go-to-market.
You’ll be responsible for the success of major product initiatives, from initial conception and customer development to growth strategy. You’ll become the trusted resource for your product, making sure that the engineering, design, sales, and marketing have what they need to make the right trade-offs, build the right product, and grow it successfully in the market.
Minimum 8 years of experience as a software product manager, ideally for a developer product
Empathy for our enterprise customers, and a passion for solving their problems with the software
Ability to craft a product strategy and roadmap in concert with customers, engineering, design, and go-to-market teams
Excellent communication skills, including the ability to distill technical concepts to a non-technical audience
Strong technical competency, especially with distributed data systems, public and private clouds, and stream processing
Experience with data sharing technologies is a plus
Experience engaging with an open-source community is a plus
Bachelor's, Master’s, or Ph.D. in Computer Science or related technical field
Belonging isn’t a perk here. It’s the baseline. We work across time zones and backgrounds, knowing the best ideas come from different perspectives. And we make space for everyone to lead, grow, and challenge what’s possible.
We’re proud to be an equal opportunity 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.
Confluent is an IBM subsidiary which has been acquired by IBM and will be integrated into the IBM organization. By proceeding with this application, you understand that Confluent will share your personal information with other IBM affiliates involved in your recruitment process, wherever these are located. More Information on how IBM protects your personal information, including the safeguards in case of cross-border data transfer, are available here.
","descriptionPlain":"We’re not just building better tech. We’re rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real-time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them.\n\nIt takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together.\n\nOne Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.\n\n\nABOUT THE ROLE:\n\nAs a Staff Product Manager in the Cloud Kafka team at Confluent, you’ll contribute to the mission of building the world’s best event streaming platform.\n\nWe are seeking an experienced and strategic Product Manager to lead the vision, strategy, and execution for our Kafka Operator experience. This role is critical to simplifying the deployment, management, and scaling of Confluent Cloud Kafka environments for our enterprise customers. The ideal candidate has a strong technical background in cloud systems, familiarity with the Apache Kafka ecosystem, and a proven track record of delivering successful developer and operator-focused products.\n\nKey responsibilities include defining and owning the product strategy and vision for the Cloud Kafka Operator, conducting market research and competitive analysis, translating strategic objectives into comprehensive product and user experience requirements, collaborating with Engineering, UX/UI Design, Documentation, Support, and Field teams throughout the product lifecycle, and working with Product marketing to define and execute go-to-market.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL DO:\n\nYou’ll be responsible for the success of major product initiatives, from initial conception and customer development to growth strategy. You’ll become the trusted resource for your product, making sure that the engineering, design, sales, and marketing have what they need to make the right trade-offs, build the right product, and grow it successfully in the market.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL BRING:\n\n - Minimum 8 years of experience as a software product manager, ideally for a developer product\n\n - Empathy for our enterprise customers, and a passion for solving their problems with the software\n\n - Ability to craft a product strategy and roadmap in concert with customers, engineering, design, and go-to-market teams\n\n - Excellent communication skills, including the ability to distill technical concepts to a non-technical audience\n\n - Strong technical competency, especially with distributed data systems, public and private clouds, and stream processing\n\n - Experience with data sharing technologies is a plus\n\n - Experience engaging with an open-source community is a plus\n\n - Bachelor's, Master’s, or Ph.D. in Computer Science or related technical field\n\n\nREADY TO BUILD WHAT'S NEXT? LET’S GET IN MOTION.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCOME AS YOU ARE\n\nBelonging isn’t a perk here. It’s the baseline. We work across time zones and backgrounds, knowing the best ideas come from different perspectives. And we make space for everyone to lead, grow, and challenge what’s possible.\n\nWe’re proud to be an equal opportunity 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.\n\n\n\n\nPRIVACY STATEMENT\n\nConfluent is an IBM subsidiary which has been acquired by IBM and will be integrated into the IBM organization. By proceeding with this application, you understand that Confluent will share your personal information with other IBM affiliates involved in your recruitment process, wherever these are located. More Information on how IBM protects your personal information, including the safeguards in case of cross-border data transfer, are available here http://ibm.com/careers/us-en/privacy-policy/."},{"id":"39143513-ad4c-41fb-86ed-b939a66e53d2","title":"Staff Security Risk & Compliance Program Manager - Access Management","department":"Engineering","team":"Engineering","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Remote, United States","secondaryLocations":[{"location":"Remote, Texas","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"Texas","addressCountry":"United States"}}}],"publishedAt":"2026-07-10T16:30:22.723+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Remote","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"United States"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/confluent/39143513-ad4c-41fb-86ed-b939a66e53d2","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/confluent/39143513-ad4c-41fb-86ed-b939a66e53d2/application","descriptionHtml":"We’re not just building better tech. We’re rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real-time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them.
It takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together.
One Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.
We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Staff Security Risk & Compliance Program Manager - Access Management to join our Trust & Security team. This senior role owns Confluent's internal access management program and leads its evolution toward machine and workload identity — service-to-service (S2S) authentication, non-human identity (NHI), and access controls for AI agents — as the next frontier of least-privilege security for the Confluent Cloud platform.
You will be the horizontal owner of how Confluent governs access: the Access Management Standard, access metrics, and the executive reporting cadence. As access operations are distributed across partner functions, you will hold the policy, risk, and measurement line so Confluent maintains one coherent access posture rather than fragmented silos.
Strategy and Leadership: Own the strategic direction and roadmap for Confluent's internal access management program, with machine and workload identity as the durable center of gravity. Drive the program's maturity model from control-building toward sustained governance and least-privilege outcomes.
Machine & Workload Identity: Lead the program to enforce service-to-service (S2S) authentication across Trust & Security-owned surfaces, taking ownership of the enforcement hand-off from the identity engineering team. Formalize non-human identity (NHI) — service accounts, keys, and workload credentials — from pilot into a funded, governed program. Stand up access controls for AI agents as agentic workloads acquire production access.
Access Governance & Standards: Own the Access Management Standard and the policies that operationalize least privilege, separation of duties, and periodic access review across human and machine access. Ensure the standard keeps pace with the evolving access surface and remains audit-ready.
Metrics, Reporting & Governance Cadence: Own access metrics and reporting (e.g., JIT/unilateral-access volume, broad-privilege usage, prod-access reduction). Define and track program OKRs and run the monthly execution and executive-review cadence, articulating risk posture and progress to senior leadership.
Cross-Functional Execution & Transitions: Drive cross-functional delivery with engineering, platform, and identity teams without direct authority.
Integration with GRC and Partner Functions: Ensure the access management program is tightly integrated with adjacent GRC domains and partner teams (Insider Threat, IT/Identity, Detection & Response, and engineering owners), with clear RACI across governance and operations.
Experience: 8+ years in security program management, identity & access management, or a closely related security discipline, with at least 3 years running an enterprise- or platform-scale access program in a technology company.
Technical Skills:
Deep expertise in identity and access management concepts: least privilege, separation of duties, RBAC/ABAC, just-in-time (JIT) and privileged access management (PAM), and access review/certification.
Working knowledge of machine and workload identity — service-to-service authentication, non-human identity, service accounts, secrets/key management, and emerging AI-agent access patterns.
Strong security engineering fundamentals across cloud infrastructure security controls in GCP, AWS, and/or Azure, including Kubernetes and cloud control-plane access models.
Familiarity with identity platforms and access tooling (e.g., Okta, JIT/access-orchestration tooling) and how access controls are enforced in production.
Tooling and Automation: Experience integrating access processes, controls, or findings into GRC and access-orchestration platforms, and a bias toward automating access decisions over manual operations.
Program Management Skills:
Strong project management and organizational skills.
Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills, with a data-driven approach to decision-making.
Experience running long-term, complex security programs that deliver iterative, measurable risk reduction.
Communication and Collaboration Skills:
Excellent written and verbal communication, with the ability to influence and lead without direct authority across engineering and security teams.
Ability to articulate complex technical concepts and program status to executive-level audiences and technical teams alike.
Belonging isn’t a perk here. It’s the baseline. We work across time zones and backgrounds, knowing the best ideas come from different perspectives. And we make space for everyone to lead, grow, and challenge what’s possible.
We’re proud to be an equal opportunity 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.
Confluent is an IBM subsidiary which has been acquired by IBM and will be integrated into the IBM organization. By proceeding with this application, you understand that Confluent will share your personal information with other IBM affiliates involved in your recruitment process, wherever these are located. More Information on how IBM protects your personal information, including the safeguards in case of cross-border data transfer, are available here.
","descriptionPlain":"We’re not just building better tech. We’re rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real-time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them.\n\nIt takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together.\n\nOne Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE ROLE:\n\nWe are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Staff Security Risk & Compliance Program Manager - Access Management to join our Trust & Security team. This senior role owns Confluent's internal access management program and leads its evolution toward machine and workload identity — service-to-service (S2S) authentication, non-human identity (NHI), and access controls for AI agents — as the next frontier of least-privilege security for the Confluent Cloud platform.\n\n\n\nYou will be the horizontal owner of how Confluent governs access: the Access Management Standard, access metrics, and the executive reporting cadence. As access operations are distributed across partner functions, you will hold the policy, risk, and measurement line so Confluent maintains one coherent access posture rather than fragmented silos.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL DO:\n\n - Strategy and Leadership: Own the strategic direction and roadmap for Confluent's internal access management program, with machine and workload identity as the durable center of gravity. Drive the program's maturity model from control-building toward sustained governance and least-privilege outcomes.\n\n - Machine & Workload Identity: Lead the program to enforce service-to-service (S2S) authentication across Trust & Security-owned surfaces, taking ownership of the enforcement hand-off from the identity engineering team. Formalize non-human identity (NHI) — service accounts, keys, and workload credentials — from pilot into a funded, governed program. Stand up access controls for AI agents as agentic workloads acquire production access.\n\n - Access Governance & Standards: Own the Access Management Standard and the policies that operationalize least privilege, separation of duties, and periodic access review across human and machine access. Ensure the standard keeps pace with the evolving access surface and remains audit-ready.\n\n - Metrics, Reporting & Governance Cadence: Own access metrics and reporting (e.g., JIT/unilateral-access volume, broad-privilege usage, prod-access reduction). Define and track program OKRs and run the monthly execution and executive-review cadence, articulating risk posture and progress to senior leadership.\n\n - Cross-Functional Execution & Transitions: Drive cross-functional delivery with engineering, platform, and identity teams without direct authority.\n\n - Integration with GRC and Partner Functions: Ensure the access management program is tightly integrated with adjacent GRC domains and partner teams (Insider Threat, IT/Identity, Detection & Response, and engineering owners), with clear RACI across governance and operations.\n \n \n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL BRING:\n\n - Experience: 8+ years in security program management, identity & access management, or a closely related security discipline, with at least 3 years running an enterprise- or platform-scale access program in a technology company.\n\n - Technical Skills:\n \n - Deep expertise in identity and access management concepts: least privilege, separation of duties, RBAC/ABAC, just-in-time (JIT) and privileged access management (PAM), and access review/certification.\n \n - Working knowledge of machine and workload identity — service-to-service authentication, non-human identity, service accounts, secrets/key management, and emerging AI-agent access patterns.\n \n - Strong security engineering fundamentals across cloud infrastructure security controls in GCP, AWS, and/or Azure, including Kubernetes and cloud control-plane access models.\n \n - Familiarity with identity platforms and access tooling (e.g., Okta, JIT/access-orchestration tooling) and how access controls are enforced in production.\n\n - Tooling and Automation: Experience integrating access processes, controls, or findings into GRC and access-orchestration platforms, and a bias toward automating access decisions over manual operations.\n\n - Program Management Skills:\n \n - Strong project management and organizational skills.\n \n - Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills, with a data-driven approach to decision-making.\n \n - Experience running long-term, complex security programs that deliver iterative, measurable risk reduction.\n\n - Communication and Collaboration Skills:\n \n - Excellent written and verbal communication, with the ability to influence and lead without direct authority across engineering and security teams.\n \n - Ability to articulate complex technical concepts and program status to executive-level audiences and technical teams alike.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nREADY TO BUILD WHAT'S NEXT? LET’S GET IN MOTION.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCOME AS YOU ARE\n\nBelonging isn’t a perk here. It’s the baseline. We work across time zones and backgrounds, knowing the best ideas come from different perspectives. And we make space for everyone to lead, grow, and challenge what’s possible.\n\nWe’re proud to be an equal opportunity 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.\n\n\n\n\nPRIVACY STATEMENT\n\nConfluent is an IBM subsidiary which has been acquired by IBM and will be integrated into the IBM organization. By proceeding with this application, you understand that Confluent will share your personal information with other IBM affiliates involved in your recruitment process, wherever these are located. More Information on how IBM protects your personal information, including the safeguards in case of cross-border data transfer, are available here http://ibm.com/careers/us-en/privacy-policy/."},{"id":"406d4c74-8ebd-4f51-ab1b-1db71018d387","title":"Senior Software Engineer","department":"Engineering","team":"Engineering","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Portland, Oregon","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-05-06T20:47:31.871+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Remote","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"Oregon","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"Portland"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/confluent/406d4c74-8ebd-4f51-ab1b-1db71018d387","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/confluent/406d4c74-8ebd-4f51-ab1b-1db71018d387/application","descriptionHtml":"We’re not just building better tech. We’re rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real-time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them.
It takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together.
One Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.
The Infrastructure team at Confluent is responsible for building and operating the foundation that powers Confluent Cloud. Our mission is to design scalable, reliable, and cost-efficient infrastructure to support mission-critical data streaming workloads. Whether it’s optimizing cloud networking, improving resource efficiency, or scaling distributed systems, our work directly impacts Confluent’s performance, reliability, and business growth.
We are looking for engineers with a passion for building and operating large-scale distributed systems in the cloud. This role provides an opportunity to work on complex infrastructure challenges across multiple domains, including storage, networking, compute, and security.
Design, develop, and operate large-scale, high-performance infrastructure that powers Confluent Cloud.
Build foundational software to improve reliability, scalability, and efficiency across cloud environments.
Work on distributed systems challenges such as consensus algorithms, failover strategies, and resource allocation.
Collaborate with teams across Confluent to optimize and enhance infrastructure for real-time data streaming use cases.
Troubleshoot and improve system reliability, observability, and performance across multiple cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP).
Contribute to open-source projects and leverage open-source technologies to drive business impact.
4+ years of relevant experience
Strong fundamentals in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and networking.
Experience in building and operating large-scale, high-availability systems.
Deep understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and their services.
Solid grasp of systems operations (disk, networking, OS-level optimizations).
Proficiency in Java, Scala, C++, Go, or other statically typed languages.
A self-starter with strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
Experience in one or more of the following domains: storage, compute orchestration, networking, security, or performance engineering.
Familiarity with Kubernetes, service meshes, and cloud-native architectures.
Contributions to open-source infrastructure projects.
Belonging isn’t a perk here. It’s the baseline. We work across time zones and backgrounds, knowing the best ideas come from different perspectives. And we make space for everyone to lead, grow, and challenge what’s possible.
We’re proud to be an equal opportunity 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.
Confluent is an IBM subsidiary which has been acquired by IBM and will be integrated into the IBM organization. By proceeding with this application, you understand that Confluent will share your personal information with other IBM affiliates involved in your recruitment process, wherever these are located. More Information on how IBM protects your personal information, including the safeguards in case of cross-border data transfer, are available here.
","descriptionPlain":"We’re not just building better tech. We’re rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real-time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them.\n\nIt takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together.\n\nOne Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.\n\n\nABOUT THE ROLE:\n\nThe Infrastructure team at Confluent is responsible for building and operating the foundation that powers Confluent Cloud. Our mission is to design scalable, reliable, and cost-efficient infrastructure to support mission-critical data streaming workloads. Whether it’s optimizing cloud networking, improving resource efficiency, or scaling distributed systems, our work directly impacts Confluent’s performance, reliability, and business growth.\n\nWe are looking for engineers with a passion for building and operating large-scale distributed systems in the cloud. This role provides an opportunity to work on complex infrastructure challenges across multiple domains, including storage, networking, compute, and security.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL DO:\n\n - Design, develop, and operate large-scale, high-performance infrastructure that powers Confluent Cloud.\n\n - Build foundational software to improve reliability, scalability, and efficiency across cloud environments.\n\n - Work on distributed systems challenges such as consensus algorithms, failover strategies, and resource allocation.\n\n - Collaborate with teams across Confluent to optimize and enhance infrastructure for real-time data streaming use cases.\n\n - Troubleshoot and improve system reliability, observability, and performance across multiple cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP).\n\n - Contribute to open-source projects and leverage open-source technologies to drive business impact.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL BRING:\n\n - 4+ years of relevant experience\n\n - Strong fundamentals in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and networking.\n\n - Experience in building and operating large-scale, high-availability systems.\n\n - Deep understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and their services.\n\n - Solid grasp of systems operations (disk, networking, OS-level optimizations).\n\n - Proficiency in Java, Scala, C++, Go, or other statically typed languages.\n\n - A self-starter with strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment.\n\n - BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT GIVES YOU AN EDGE:\n\n - Experience in one or more of the following domains: storage, compute orchestration, networking, security, or performance engineering.\n\n - Familiarity with Kubernetes, service meshes, and cloud-native architectures.\n\n - Contributions to open-source infrastructure projects.\n\n\nREADY TO BUILD WHAT'S NEXT? LET’S GET IN MOTION.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCOME AS YOU ARE\n\nBelonging isn’t a perk here. It’s the baseline. We work across time zones and backgrounds, knowing the best ideas come from different perspectives. And we make space for everyone to lead, grow, and challenge what’s possible.\n\nWe’re proud to be an equal opportunity 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.\n\n\n\n\nPRIVACY STATEMENT\n\nConfluent is an IBM subsidiary which has been acquired by IBM and will be integrated into the IBM organization. By proceeding with this application, you understand that Confluent will share your personal information with other IBM affiliates involved in your recruitment process, wherever these are located. More Information on how IBM protects your personal information, including the safeguards in case of cross-border data transfer, are available here http://ibm.com/careers/us-en/privacy-policy/."},{"id":"4218f1c2-3679-4aff-a458-20ef09817fc4","title":"Senior Software Engineer - Infrastructure","department":"Engineering","team":"Engineering","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"CA Remote Ontario","secondaryLocations":[{"location":"Remote, British Columbia, Canada","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"British Columbia","addressCountry":"Canada"}}}],"publishedAt":"2026-06-03T19:44:12.337+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Remote","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"Ontario","addressCountry":"Canada","addressLocality":"Toronto"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/confluent/4218f1c2-3679-4aff-a458-20ef09817fc4","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/confluent/4218f1c2-3679-4aff-a458-20ef09817fc4/application","descriptionHtml":"We’re not just building better tech. We’re rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real-time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them.
It takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together.
One Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.
We are a team of passionate engineers who love solving complex distributed systems and infrastructure problems. We are building Kora from the ground up to be a true managed service for clients who demand high levels of availability and performance at the lowest cost of ownership. In this role, you will be working on building a highly available, performant, reliable, durable, scalable, and multi-tenant storage engine for Kora. You will be instrumental in driving the technical solutions end-to-end, working closely with the team and key stakeholders to design, architect, and develop top-notch solutions.
Build the software underpinning the mission-critical Confluent Cloud storage engine. You will play a crucial role in designing, developing and operationalizing high performance, scalable, reliable and resilient systems.
Independently drive execution of software projects to deliver complex projects in production with a focus on quality.
Identify root causes, and get beyond treating symptoms - motivated to dig deep and solve hard problems
Troubleshoot issues and improve operations for complex technical stack that spans all the 3 clouds.
Have a strong sense of teamwork and be able to make decisions which benefit the team and company.
Customer focused - making customers more successful by taking on their most challenging problems motivates you.
BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience
2+ years of relevant cloud infrastructure/cloud networking experience
Strong 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)
A self starter with the ability to work effectively in teams
Proficiency in Java, Scala, C/C++, Go or other statically typed languages
A strong background in distributed storage systems or databases
Experience in the areas of resource management and QoS
Experience/knowledge with public clouds (AWS, Azure or GCP)
Interest in evangelism (giving talks at tech conferences, writing blog posts evangelizing Kafka)
Belonging isn’t a perk here. It’s the baseline. We work across time zones and backgrounds, knowing the best ideas come from different perspectives. And we make space for everyone to lead, grow, and challenge what’s possible.
We’re proud to be an equal opportunity 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.
Confluent is an IBM subsidiary which has been acquired by IBM and will be integrated into the IBM organization. By proceeding with this application, you understand that Confluent will share your personal information with other IBM affiliates involved in your recruitment process, wherever these are located. More Information on how IBM protects your personal information, including the safeguards in case of cross-border data transfer, are available here.
","descriptionPlain":"We’re not just building better tech. We’re rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real-time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them.\n\nIt takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together.\n\nOne Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE ROLE:\n\nWe are a team of passionate engineers who love solving complex distributed systems and infrastructure problems. We are building Kora from the ground up to be a true managed service for clients who demand high levels of availability and performance at the lowest cost of ownership. In this role, you will be working on building a highly available, performant, reliable, durable, scalable, and multi-tenant storage engine for Kora. You will be instrumental in driving the technical solutions end-to-end, working closely with the team and key stakeholders to design, architect, and develop top-notch solutions.\n\n \n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL DO:\n\n - Build the software underpinning the mission-critical Confluent Cloud storage engine. You will play a crucial role in designing, developing and operationalizing high performance, scalable, reliable and resilient systems.\n\n - Independently drive execution of software projects to deliver complex projects in production with a focus on quality.\n\n - Identify root causes, and get beyond treating symptoms - motivated to dig deep and solve hard problems\n\n - Troubleshoot issues and improve operations for complex technical stack that spans all the 3 clouds.\n\n - Have a strong sense of teamwork and be able to make decisions which benefit the team and company.\n\n - Customer focused - making customers more successful by taking on their most challenging problems motivates you.\n \n \n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL BRING:\n\n - BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience\n\n - 2+ years of relevant cloud infrastructure/cloud networking experience\n\n - Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development\n\n - Experience building and operating large-scale systems in the Cloud\n\n - Solid understanding of basic systems operations (disk, network, operating systems, etc)\n\n - A self starter with the ability to work effectively in teams\n\n - Proficiency in Java, Scala, C/C++, Go or other statically typed languages\n \n \n\n\nWHAT GIVES YOU AN EDGE:\n\n - A strong background in distributed storage systems or databases\n\n - Experience in the areas of resource management and QoS\n\n - Experience/knowledge with public clouds (AWS, Azure or GCP)\n\n - Interest in evangelism (giving talks at tech conferences, writing blog posts evangelizing Kafka)\n\n\nREADY TO BUILD WHAT'S NEXT? LET’S GET IN MOTION.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCOME AS YOU ARE\n\nBelonging isn’t a perk here. It’s the baseline. We work across time zones and backgrounds, knowing the best ideas come from different perspectives. And we make space for everyone to lead, grow, and challenge what’s possible.\n\nWe’re proud to be an equal opportunity 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.\n\n\n\n\nPRIVACY STATEMENT\n\nConfluent is an IBM subsidiary which has been acquired by IBM and will be integrated into the IBM organization. By proceeding with this application, you understand that Confluent will share your personal information with other IBM affiliates involved in your recruitment process, wherever these are located. More Information on how IBM protects your personal information, including the safeguards in case of cross-border data transfer, are available here http://ibm.com/careers/us-en/privacy-policy/."},{"id":"5b5790ab-8603-4613-b493-be21ea975f3d","title":"Senior Software Engineer II, Kora Compute","department":"Engineering","team":"Engineering","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"*Job Posting Only: USA1","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-05-04T22:14:44.941+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":null,"workplaceType":null,"address":null,"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/confluent/5b5790ab-8603-4613-b493-be21ea975f3d","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/confluent/5b5790ab-8603-4613-b493-be21ea975f3d/application","descriptionHtml":"We’re not just building better tech. We’re rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real-time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them.
It takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together.
One Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.
We are a team of passionate engineers who love solving complex distributed systems and infrastructure problems. We are building Kora from the ground up to be a true managed service for clients who demand high levels of availability and performance at the lowest cost of ownership. In this role, you will be working on building highly available, reliable, secure, scalable, and multi-tenant Kora's compute layer. You will be instrumental in driving the technical solutions end-to-end, working closely with the team and key stakeholders to design, architect, and develop top-notch solutions. Here are examples of some of the challenges we've taken on in recent years:
Kora: A Cloud-Native Event Streaming Platform For Kafka
Apache Kafka's Next-Gen Rebalance Protocol: Towards More Stable and Scalable Consumer Groups
From On-Prem to Cloud-Native: Multi-Tenancy in Confluent Cloud
Speed, Scale, Storage: Our Journey from Apache Kafka to Performance in Confluent Cloud
Benchmarking Confluent Cloud
Driven and excited about challenges of delivering complex projects in production with a focus on quality
Customer focused - making customers more successful by taking on their most challenging problems motivates you
Have a strong sense of teamwork and able to make decisions which benefit the team and company
Identify root causes, and get beyond treating symptoms - motivated to dig deep and solve hard problems
BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience
4+ years of relevant cloud infrastructure/cloud networking experience
Strong 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)
A self starter with the ability to work effectively in teams
Proficiency in Java, Scala, C/C++, Go or other statically typed languages
In-depth familiarity with the JVM
A strong background in distributed storage systems or databases
Experience in the areas of resource management and QoS
Experience/knowledge with public clouds (AWS, Azure or GCP)
Interest in evangelism (giving talks at tech conferences, writing blog posts evangelizing Kafka)
Experience working on databases or data storage
Belonging isn’t a perk here. It’s the baseline. We work across time zones and backgrounds, knowing the best ideas come from different perspectives. And we make space for everyone to lead, grow, and challenge what’s possible.
We’re proud to be an equal opportunity 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.
Confluent is an IBM subsidiary which has been acquired by IBM and will be integrated into the IBM organization. By proceeding with this application, you understand that Confluent will share your personal information with other IBM affiliates involved in your recruitment process, wherever these are located. More Information on how IBM protects your personal information, including the safeguards in case of cross-border data transfer, are available here.
","descriptionPlain":"We’re not just building better tech. We’re rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real-time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them.\n\nIt takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together.\n\nOne Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.\n\n\nABOUT THE ROLE:\n\nWe are a team of passionate engineers who love solving complex distributed systems and infrastructure problems. We are building Kora from the ground up to be a true managed service for clients who demand high levels of availability and performance at the lowest cost of ownership. In this role, you will be working on building highly available, reliable, secure, scalable, and multi-tenant Kora's compute layer. You will be instrumental in driving the technical solutions end-to-end, working closely with the team and key stakeholders to design, architect, and develop top-notch solutions. Here are examples of some of the challenges we've taken on in recent years:\n\nKora: A Cloud-Native Event Streaming Platform For Kafka https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol16/p3822-povzner.pdf\nApache Kafka's Next-Gen Rebalance Protocol: Towards More Stable and Scalable Consumer Groups https://www.confluent.io/events/current/2023/apache-kafkas-next-gen-rebalance-protocol-towards-more-stable-and-scalable/\nFrom On-Prem to Cloud-Native: Multi-Tenancy in Confluent Cloud https://www.confluent.io/blog/cloud-native-multi-tenant-kafka-with-confluent-cloud/\nSpeed, Scale, Storage: Our Journey from Apache Kafka to Performance in Confluent Cloud https://www.confluent.io/blog/from-apache-kafka-to-confluent-cloud-optimizing-for-speed-scale-storage/\nBenchmarking Confluent Cloud https://assets.confluent.io/m/2d7c883a8aa6a71d/original/20200501-WP-Benchmark_Your_Dedicated_Apache_Kafka_Cluster_on_Confluent_Cloud.pdf\n\n \n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL DO:\n\n - Driven and excited about challenges of delivering complex projects in production with a focus on quality\n\n - Customer focused - making customers more successful by taking on their most challenging problems motivates you\n\n - Have a strong sense of teamwork and able to make decisions which benefit the team and company\n\n - Identify root causes, and get beyond treating symptoms - motivated to dig deep and solve hard problems\n \n \n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL BRING:\n\n - BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience\n\n - 4+ years of relevant cloud infrastructure/cloud networking experience\n\n - Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development\n\n - Experience building and operating large-scale systems in the Cloud\n\n - Solid understanding of basic systems operations (disk, network, operating systems, etc)\n\n - A self starter with the ability to work effectively in teams\n Proficiency in Java, Scala, C/C++, Go or other statically typed languages\n\n \n\n\nWHAT GIVES YOU AN EDGE:\n\n - In-depth familiarity with the JVM\n\n - A strong background in distributed storage systems or databases\n\n - Experience in the areas of resource management and QoS\n\n - Experience/knowledge with public clouds (AWS, Azure or GCP)\n\n - Interest in evangelism (giving talks at tech conferences, writing blog posts evangelizing Kafka)\n\n - Experience working on databases or data storage\n\n\nREADY TO BUILD WHAT'S NEXT? LET’S GET IN MOTION.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCOME AS YOU ARE\n\nBelonging isn’t a perk here. It’s the baseline. We work across time zones and backgrounds, knowing the best ideas come from different perspectives. And we make space for everyone to lead, grow, and challenge what’s possible.\n\nWe’re proud to be an equal opportunity 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.\n\n\n\n\nPRIVACY STATEMENT\n\nConfluent is an IBM subsidiary which has been acquired by IBM and will be integrated into the IBM organization. By proceeding with this application, you understand that Confluent will share your personal information with other IBM affiliates involved in your recruitment process, wherever these are located. More Information on how IBM protects your personal information, including the safeguards in case of cross-border data transfer, are available here http://ibm.com/careers/us-en/privacy-policy/."},{"id":"6833487b-88cd-447b-8629-174696192510","title":"Director, IT","department":"Engineering","team":"Engineering","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Remote, United States","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-05-21T22:25:31.761+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Remote","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"United States"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/confluent/6833487b-88cd-447b-8629-174696192510","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/confluent/6833487b-88cd-447b-8629-174696192510/application","descriptionHtml":"We’re not just building better tech. We’re rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real-time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them.
It takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together.
One Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.
At Confluent, every employee's productivity depends on the systems and services this team delivers — from the laptop they unbox on day one, to the identity that gets them into the apps they use every day, to the network and conference rooms that connect a globally distributed company. As Director of IT, you will lead the team responsible for Helpdesk, endpoint and AV experience, enterprise identity, core productivity applications, corporate networking, and corporate cloud infrastructure. You will own both the day-to-day reliability of these services and the longer-term roadmap to modernize and automate them — treating internal employees as customers and IT as a product. This role is for a technical, hands-on leader who thrives on solving real problems for real people, and who can balance operational excellence with the ambition to make IT meaningfully better, faster, and more secure.
Lead and develop the IT organization across Helpdesk, endpoint engineering (laptops, AV, conference rooms), enterprise identity (SSO, MFA, lifecycle), core productivity platforms (Google Workspace, Slack, Zoom, and adjacent SaaS),corporate networking (Meraki), and corporate cloud infrastructure (GCP, AWS, Azure)
Own the employee technology experience end-to-end — setting and measuring service levels, response times, and CSAT, and using that data to drive continuous improvement
Modernize and automate the IT operating model — reducing manual ticket work through self-service, identity-driven access workflows, AI-assisted support, and policy-as-code for endpoint and network management
Partner closely with Security, People, Finance, Engineering, and Workplace teams to deliver onboarding, offboarding, access governance, and compliance commitments (SOX, SOC 2) without friction to employees
Manage vendor relationships, budget, and capacity planning across the IT portfolio — making clear build/buy/partner decisions and holding partners accountable to outcomes
Lead the team through growth and change — evolving the operating model, technology footprint, and team structure as the business scales and matures
10+ years of IT or corporate infrastructure experience, including 5+ years leading teams that span Helpdesk, endpoint, identity, and networking functions
Strong technical depth across the modern IT stack — Okta for identity, Jamf and Intune for endpoint management, Google Workspace, Zoom and modern AV, and enterprise networking (Wi-Fi, SD-WAN, ZTNA)
Demonstrated customer-focused mindset — measurable track record of improving employee experience, ticket resolution, and self-service adoption
Proven problem solver who can move fluidly between hands-on technical troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and structured program leadership
Experience operating in a security- and compliance-conscious environment, partnering with Security and GRC on identity governance, endpoint posture, and audit readiness
Comfortable leading through ambiguity and change — energized rather than slowed by organizational evolution, shifting priorities, or integrating new ways of working
Experience automating IT operations using scripting, APIs, workflow tools (Workato, Okta Workflows), or AI-assisted support (LLM-powered Helpdesk, automated triage, knowledge agents)
Background scaling IT services for a globally distributed, hybrid workforce — including multi-site office buildouts, AV standardization, and follow-the-sun support models
Hands-on familiarity with Zero Trust architectures, device posture enforcement, and modern identity-driven access patterns
Experience supporting a SaaS or high-growth technology company through audit cycles (SOX, SOC 2, ISO 27001) and rapid headcount growth
Track record of developing IT leaders and engineers — turning a reactive support function into a respected, proactive technology partner to the business
Proven track record of guiding a product's technology infrastructure through post-acquisition integration into a larger enterprise environment, ensuring continuity of innovation while adopting parent organization standards and processes
Belonging isn’t a perk here. It’s the baseline. We work across time zones and backgrounds, knowing the best ideas come from different perspectives. And we make space for everyone to lead, grow, and challenge what’s possible.
We’re proud to be an equal opportunity 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.
Confluent is an IBM subsidiary which has been acquired by IBM and will be integrated into the IBM organization. By proceeding with this application, you understand that Confluent will share your personal information with other IBM affiliates involved in your recruitment process, wherever these are located. More Information on how IBM protects your personal information, including the safeguards in case of cross-border data transfer, are available here.
","descriptionPlain":"We’re not just building better tech. We’re rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real-time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them.\n\nIt takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together.\n\nOne Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.\n\n\nABOUT THE ROLE:\n\nAt Confluent, every employee's productivity depends on the systems and services this team delivers — from the laptop they unbox on day one, to the identity that gets them into the apps they use every day, to the network and conference rooms that connect a globally distributed company. As Director of IT, you will lead the team responsible for Helpdesk, endpoint and AV experience, enterprise identity, core productivity applications, corporate networking, and corporate cloud infrastructure. You will own both the day-to-day reliability of these services and the longer-term roadmap to modernize and automate them — treating internal employees as customers and IT as a product. This role is for a technical, hands-on leader who thrives on solving real problems for real people, and who can balance operational excellence with the ambition to make IT meaningfully better, faster, and more secure.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL DO:\n\n - Lead and develop the IT organization across Helpdesk, endpoint engineering (laptops, AV, conference rooms), enterprise identity (SSO, MFA, lifecycle), core productivity platforms (Google Workspace, Slack, Zoom, and adjacent SaaS),corporate networking (Meraki), and corporate cloud infrastructure (GCP, AWS, Azure)\n\n - Own the employee technology experience end-to-end — setting and measuring service levels, response times, and CSAT, and using that data to drive continuous improvement\n\n - Modernize and automate the IT operating model — reducing manual ticket work through self-service, identity-driven access workflows, AI-assisted support, and policy-as-code for endpoint and network management\n\n - Partner closely with Security, People, Finance, Engineering, and Workplace teams to deliver onboarding, offboarding, access governance, and compliance commitments (SOX, SOC 2) without friction to employees\n\n - Manage vendor relationships, budget, and capacity planning across the IT portfolio — making clear build/buy/partner decisions and holding partners accountable to outcomes\n\n - Lead the team through growth and change — evolving the operating model, technology footprint, and team structure as the business scales and matures\n \n \n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL BRING:\n\n - 10+ years of IT or corporate infrastructure experience, including 5+ years leading teams that span Helpdesk, endpoint, identity, and networking functions\n\n - Strong technical depth across the modern IT stack — Okta for identity, Jamf and Intune for endpoint management, Google Workspace, Zoom and modern AV, and enterprise networking (Wi-Fi, SD-WAN, ZTNA)\n\n - Demonstrated customer-focused mindset — measurable track record of improving employee experience, ticket resolution, and self-service adoption\n\n - Proven problem solver who can move fluidly between hands-on technical troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and structured program leadership\n\n - Experience operating in a security- and compliance-conscious environment, partnering with Security and GRC on identity governance, endpoint posture, and audit readiness\n\n - Comfortable leading through ambiguity and change — energized rather than slowed by organizational evolution, shifting priorities, or integrating new ways of working\n\n\n\n\nWHAT GIVES YOU AN EDGE:\n\n - Experience automating IT operations using scripting, APIs, workflow tools (Workato, Okta Workflows), or AI-assisted support (LLM-powered Helpdesk, automated triage, knowledge agents)\n\n - Background scaling IT services for a globally distributed, hybrid workforce — including multi-site office buildouts, AV standardization, and follow-the-sun support models\n\n - Hands-on familiarity with Zero Trust architectures, device posture enforcement, and modern identity-driven access patterns\n\n - Experience supporting a SaaS or high-growth technology company through audit cycles (SOX, SOC 2, ISO 27001) and rapid headcount growth\n\n - Track record of developing IT leaders and engineers — turning a reactive support function into a respected, proactive technology partner to the business\n\n - Proven track record of guiding a product's technology infrastructure through post-acquisition integration into a larger enterprise environment, ensuring continuity of innovation while adopting parent organization standards and processes\n\n\nREADY TO BUILD WHAT'S NEXT? LET’S GET IN MOTION.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCOME AS YOU ARE\n\nBelonging isn’t a perk here. It’s the baseline. We work across time zones and backgrounds, knowing the best ideas come from different perspectives. And we make space for everyone to lead, grow, and challenge what’s possible.\n\nWe’re proud to be an equal opportunity 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.\n\n\n\n\nPRIVACY STATEMENT\n\nConfluent is an IBM subsidiary which has been acquired by IBM and will be integrated into the IBM organization. By proceeding with this application, you understand that Confluent will share your personal information with other IBM affiliates involved in your recruitment process, wherever these are located. More Information on how IBM protects your personal information, including the safeguards in case of cross-border data transfer, are available here http://ibm.com/careers/us-en/privacy-policy/."},{"id":"69b37f70-0978-472e-86a9-2d19ba70820f","title":"Senior Product Manager, Developer Experience","department":"Product","team":"Product","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Remote, United States","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-05-28T14:50:17.618+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Remote","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"United States"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/confluent/69b37f70-0978-472e-86a9-2d19ba70820f","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/confluent/69b37f70-0978-472e-86a9-2d19ba70820f/application","descriptionHtml":"We’re not just building better tech. We’re rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. 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It takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together.
One Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.
As a product manager on the Platform team, you will be responsible for empowering developers and operators of all Confluent customers to automate their operations by evolving Confluent's API platform and making it AI-ready. You will own and drive the vision and strategy for the API platform. You think like a developer, are familiar with LLMs programmatic interactions and know how to deliver the most AI-powered, developer-friendly API, CLI, Terraform interfaces in the industry. You are also able to think about the developer & data scientist journeys end-to-end and unblock them across their jobs & interfaces.
Understand our users: Collect customers’ feedback, conduct interviews and analyze data to define user journeys, and key jobs to be done for developers, operators, and data scientists.
Drive the API Platform Strategy & Roadmap to drastically simplify the experience for developers, operators, and data scientists across all Confluent products with AI.
Define and prioritize key initiatives by linking them to measurable business outcomes (ROI) and validated customer demand.
Govern the API/CLI/TF interfaces across all Confluent products to offer consistent experiences while empowering product teams to move fast.
Execute on key initiatives across multiple teams through initial delivery and by driving adoption after launch.
Close the loop: Define quantitative and qualitative targets, measure performance against them, share results with stakeholders, and incorporate those learnings back into the strategy & product.
5+ years of experience as a product owner or product manager working on developer-focused products
Highly technical and deep understanding of how developers or tools interact with API/CLI/TF interfaces
Deep empathy and passion for solving customer problems and addressing end user needs
Experience in making an infrastructure product AI-ready
Experience building and supporting enterprise-grade products as an engineer, product manager, or solutions architect.
Experience building, writing, maintaining and defending a clear product roadmap and backlog backed by user stories and customer research.
Exceptional written and presentation skills. At Confluent we rely heavily on documents to explain the vision and facilitate concrete communication.
Demonstrated ability to drive business outcomes through product changes
Belonging isn’t a perk here. It’s the baseline. We work across time zones and backgrounds, knowing the best ideas come from different perspectives. And we make space for everyone to lead, grow, and challenge what’s possible.
We’re proud to be an equal opportunity 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.
Confluent is an IBM subsidiary which has been acquired by IBM and will be integrated into the IBM organization. By proceeding with this application, you understand that Confluent will share your personal information with other IBM affiliates involved in your recruitment process, wherever these are located. More Information on how IBM protects your personal information, including the safeguards in case of cross-border data transfer, are available here.
","descriptionPlain":"We’re not just building better tech. We’re rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real-time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them.\n\nIt takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together.\n\nOne Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.\n\n\nABOUT THE ROLE:\n\nAs a product manager on the Platform team, you will be responsible for empowering developers and operators of all Confluent customers to automate their operations by evolving Confluent's API platform and making it AI-ready. You will own and drive the vision and strategy for the API platform. 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It takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together.
One Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.
As a Staff Application Security Engineer at Confluent, you will join a team of security architects and engineers responsible for shaping and advancing the application security strategy across our on-premises products and cloud services. In this role, you will go beyond implementation to define the long-term security posture of our ecosystem, spanning high-scale distributed systems, on-prem deployments, and globally operated cloud platforms.
You will lead the design and evolution of application security architecture, ensuring security is embedded throughout the product lifecycle—from early design decisions to cloud deployment and ongoing operations. Acting as a strategic partner to Engineering and Product leadership, you will influence architectural direction and proactively mitigate systemic and emerging security risks.
This role plays a key part in building and sustaining a strong security culture across Engineering, Product, and the broader organization. You will architect and oversee security automation and tooling that scales security operations and enables consistent, high-quality outcomes. The ideal candidate brings deep technical expertise and sound security judgment, with a proven ability to eliminate entire classes of vulnerabilities through architecture, automation, and cross-functional leadership.
Partner closely with Engineering, Product, and Platform teams to identify security risks early, influence architectural decisions, and drive adoption of secure-by-design practices across the organization.
Define and standardize threat modeling frameworks and security design standards, and lead security design reviews for complex, distributed systems, providing actionable architectural guidance to engineers and product managers.
Serve as the subject matter expert (SME) for product security implementation reviews, overseeing security code reviews and API security testing while providing definitive remediation guidance.
Architect and drive the roadmap for security automation, building scalable software security tooling to transform product security operations and vulnerability management practices.
Design and lead the deployment of automation and orchestration frameworks that integrate security seamlessly into the cloud-native deployment pipeline.
Proactively identify new vulnerability classes, lead research initiatives and orchestrate complex table-top exercises to keep the organization ahead of the evolving threat landscape.
Strategically identify and deploy advanced technology controls to maximize observability and harden key attack surfaces across the ecosystem.
10–12 years of hands-on Application Security experience, who can drive measurable security improvements across large-scale, distributed systems and global engineering organizations.
Comprehensive knowledge of security fundamentals as applied to modern web applications and cloud-native platforms including secure software design and architecture, secure coding practices, common vulnerability classes.
Ability to partner as a trusted peer with Engineering and Product leadership to embed security into the core architecture of the organization.
Ability to lead technical investigation and response to application security incidents while driving preventive improvements through architecture and automation.
Proven experience evolving the software development lifecycle to embed security by default, from securing CI/CD pipelines and build systems to implementing automated security guardrails in cloud-native deployment workflows. Passionate about applying AI and LLMs to automate complex security workflows, reduce manual toil, and drive measurable improvements in security outcomes.
Experience in Go, Python, or Java, with the ability to design and build scalable security automation frameworks.
Experience in leading cross-functional initiatives in distributed environments, translating security requirements into clear, executable technical roadmaps.
A data-driven decision-maker who can balance security requirements with business velocity and engineering trade-offs to deliver outcomes.
Ability to raise the organization’s security bar through architectural reviews, advanced technical guidance, and the development of engineers across all levels.
Belonging isn’t a perk here. It’s the baseline. We work across time zones and backgrounds, knowing the best ideas come from different perspectives. And we make space for everyone to lead, grow, and challenge what’s possible.
We’re proud to be an equal opportunity 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.
Confluent is an IBM subsidiary which has been acquired by IBM and will be integrated into the IBM organization. By proceeding with this application, you understand that Confluent will share your personal information with other IBM affiliates involved in your recruitment process, wherever these are located. More Information on how IBM protects your personal information, including the safeguards in case of cross-border data transfer, are available here.
","descriptionPlain":"We’re not just building better tech. We’re rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real-time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them.\n\nIt takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together.\n\nOne Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.\n\n\nABOUT THE ROLE:\n\n\n\nAs a Staff Application Security Engineer at Confluent, you will join a team of security architects and engineers responsible for shaping and advancing the application security strategy across our on-premises products and cloud services. 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Passionate about applying AI and LLMs to automate complex security workflows, reduce manual toil, and drive measurable improvements in security outcomes.\n\n - Experience in Go, Python, or Java, with the ability to design and build scalable security automation frameworks.\n\n - Experience in leading cross-functional initiatives in distributed environments, translating security requirements into clear, executable technical roadmaps.\n\n - A data-driven decision-maker who can balance security requirements with business velocity and engineering trade-offs to deliver outcomes.\n\n - Ability to raise the organization’s security bar through architectural reviews, advanced technical guidance, and the development of engineers across all levels.\n\n\nREADY TO BUILD WHAT'S NEXT? LET’S GET IN MOTION.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCOME AS YOU ARE\n\nBelonging isn’t a perk here. It’s the baseline. We work across time zones and backgrounds, knowing the best ideas come from different perspectives. And we make space for everyone to lead, grow, and challenge what’s possible.\n\nWe’re proud to be an equal opportunity 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.\n\n\n\n\nPRIVACY STATEMENT\n\nConfluent is an IBM subsidiary which has been acquired by IBM and will be integrated into the IBM organization. By proceeding with this application, you understand that Confluent will share your personal information with other IBM affiliates involved in your recruitment process, wherever these are located. 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It takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together.
One Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.
Confluent is pioneering a fundamentally new category of data infrastructure focused on data in motion. Have you ever found a new favorite series on Netflix, picked up groceries curbside at Walmart, or paid for something using Square? That’s the power of data in motion in action—giving organizations instant access to the massive amounts of data that is constantly flowing throughout their business. At Confluent, we’re building the foundational platform for this new paradigm of data infrastructure. Our cloud-native offering is designed to be the intelligent connective tissue enabling real-time data, from multiple sources, to constantly stream across the organization. With Confluent, organizations can create a central nervous system to innovate and win in a digital-first world.
We’re looking for self-motivated team members who crave a challenge and feel energized to roll up their sleeves and help realize Confluent’s enormous potential. Chart your own path and take healthy risks as we solve big problems together. We value having diverse teams and want you to grow as we grow—whether you’re just starting out in your career or managing a large team, you’ll be amazed at the magnitude of your impact.
About the Role:
As Director II of the Compute Platform & Unified Deployment org, you will be working closely with the team and other key stakeholders to design, architect and build out our secure, multi-tenant, polyglot, Cloud-native Compute substrate to enable new business opportunities across Confluent Cloud (including Kafka, Flink, Connect, Tableflow, Confluent Intelligence, and more) . As one of the senior technical leaders in R&D, you think strategically and you help drive end-to-end technical delivery from customer experience to scaling internal operations. You are not confined to the status quo and you leverage your expertise in Cloud-native, large-scale distributed systems to help take our platform to the next level. You worry about key operational aspects (availability, reliability, performance, monitoring, emergency response, capacity planning, disaster recovery) of our Platform & the Products built on top of it, and you make sure that we have a highly-available, resilient and secure offering that our largest Fortune 500 customers can rely on for their mission-critical workloads. If you love the hum of big data systems, thinking about how to make them run as smoothly as possible, and want to have a big influence on the architecture plus operational design points of this new product, then you will fit right in.
Be part of driving the overall technical charter for the Compute Platform & Unified Deployment org -- including, but not limited to cloud infrastructure, big data, security & AI
Work closely with product management and engineering management to build and drive the overall roadmap for Confluent’s Compute Platform to enable new business opportunities
Deliver high impact to the business by driving important technical initiatives in areas comprising (but not limited to) security, reliability, multi-tenancy, architectural direction, and major component refactor across organizational boundaries
Be as a strong technical leader and representative for engineering across the Compute organization
Lead the team and the product on aspects of product definition, architectural design, and delivery
Who You Are:
A smart, humble, and empathetic attitude
A strong sense of teamwork and are excited about team and company success
Drive and excitement about challenges of a fast-paced, innovative software startup environment
10+ years of experience in delivering scalable software solutions
Proven track record of leading the delivery of large-scale, highly available, low latency, high quality systems
Deep hands-on technical expertise in hyper-scale distributed systems engineering
Deep expertise in multi-cluster / multi-tenant Kubernetes a big plus
Deep expertise in safe deployment of mission-critical workloads at high-scale a big plus
Expertise in Language Runtimes (JVM, WASM, CPython, etc.) a big plus
Expertise in Container & Virtualization/Hypervisor technologies (firecracker/gVisor/ cloud-hypervisor/kata-containers, etc.)
Experience in large-scale safe deployment technologies & best practices
Experience in Cloud Native technologies including networking & security
Experience in driving operational excellence for large, production services
Track record of providing technical leadership and mentorship
Track record of working collaboratively across teams and roles, including but not limited to product management, UX, and other engineering teams and leaders.
Belonging isn’t a perk here. It’s the baseline. We work across time zones and backgrounds, knowing the best ideas come from different perspectives. And we make space for everyone to lead, grow, and challenge what’s possible.
We’re proud to be an equal opportunity 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.
Confluent is an IBM subsidiary which has been acquired by IBM and will be integrated into the IBM organization. By proceeding with this application, you understand that Confluent will share your personal information with other IBM affiliates involved in your recruitment process, wherever these are located. More Information on how IBM protects your personal information, including the safeguards in case of cross-border data transfer, are available here.
","descriptionPlain":"We’re not just building better tech. We’re rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real-time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them.\n\nIt takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together.\n\nOne Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.\n\n\nDIRECTOR II, COMPUTE PLATFORM & UNIFIED DEPLOYMENT\n\n\n\nConfluent is pioneering a fundamentally new category of data infrastructure focused on data in motion. Have you ever found a new favorite series on Netflix, picked up groceries curbside at Walmart, or paid for something using Square? 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We value having diverse teams and want you to grow as we grow—whether you’re just starting out in your career or managing a large team, you’ll be amazed at the magnitude of your impact.\n\n\n\nAbout the Role:\n\nAs Director II of the Compute Platform & Unified Deployment org, you will be working closely with the team and other key stakeholders to design, architect and build out our secure, multi-tenant, polyglot, Cloud-native Compute substrate to enable new business opportunities across Confluent Cloud (including Kafka, Flink, Connect, Tableflow, Confluent Intelligence, and more) . As one of the senior technical leaders in R&D, you think strategically and you help drive end-to-end technical delivery from customer experience to scaling internal operations. You are not confined to the status quo and you leverage your expertise in Cloud-native, large-scale distributed systems to help take our platform to the next level. You worry about key operational aspects (availability, reliability, performance, monitoring, emergency response, capacity planning, disaster recovery) of our Platform & the Products built on top of it, and you make sure that we have a highly-available, resilient and secure offering that our largest Fortune 500 customers can rely on for their mission-critical workloads. 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LET’S GET IN MOTION.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCOME AS YOU ARE\n\nBelonging isn’t a perk here. It’s the baseline. We work across time zones and backgrounds, knowing the best ideas come from different perspectives. And we make space for everyone to lead, grow, and challenge what’s possible.\n\nWe’re proud to be an equal opportunity 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.\n\n\n\n\nPRIVACY STATEMENT\n\nConfluent is an IBM subsidiary which has been acquired by IBM and will be integrated into the IBM organization. By proceeding with this application, you understand that Confluent will share your personal information with other IBM affiliates involved in your recruitment process, wherever these are located. More Information on how IBM protects your personal information, including the safeguards in case of cross-border data transfer, are available here http://ibm.com/careers/us-en/privacy-policy/."},{"id":"81b94a4e-53d3-40d5-9c04-af57bd01961c","title":"Staff Product Manager, Real Time Data Analytics Platform ","department":"Product","team":"Product","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Remote, United States","secondaryLocations":[{"location":"Remote, Washington","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"Washington","addressCountry":"United States"}}}],"publishedAt":"2026-04-30T14:00:07.304+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Remote","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"United States"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/confluent/81b94a4e-53d3-40d5-9c04-af57bd01961c","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/confluent/81b94a4e-53d3-40d5-9c04-af57bd01961c/application","descriptionHtml":"We’re not just building better tech. 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It takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together.
One Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.
Today, enterprises stitch together separate systems for streaming, analytics, and serving. Each of these systems come with its own latency, cost, and operational overhead. The next evolution of Confluent's platform collapses that complexity by continuously materializing streaming data into fast, queryable state that serves real-time analytics, operational applications, and downstream intelligent systems from a single foundation.
As a Staff Product Manager, you'll own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for the core streaming analytics engine underlying Confluent's real-time data platform. This system sits at the intersection of stream processing, real-time analytical databases, and modern serving infrastructure, continuously transforming data in motion into low-latency, queryable materialized views that power AI agents, dashboards, operational queries, and event-driven applications. You'll own the engine: the storage, materialization, query layer, and performance, while partnering with peer product managers who own the downstream product experiences built on top of it.
This is a foundational, high-leverage role. You'll define a new product category that brings together concepts from streaming analytics, real-time OLAP, materialized views, and modern database systems into a cloud-native, streaming-first architecture. You'll partner directly with engineering, design, and senior leadership to bring this to market and position Confluent as a compelling alternative to standalone real-time analytical databases.
Own the product strategy for Confluent's streaming analytics engine: storage, materialization, query serving, performance, and developer experience.
Develop competitive strategy against established real-time analytical databases, articulating Confluent's differentiated value as a streaming-native alternative.
Drive key architectural and product tradeoffs across consistency, latency, query performance, cost, and developer ergonomics.
Partner deeply with engineering to navigate the technical complexity of building a new cloud-native data system at scale.
Collaborate with peer product managers who own downstream experiences including AI, context delivery, and application integration, to ensure the engine meets the needs of the products built on it.
Work with customers and design partners to validate use cases across real-time analytics, operational applications, and AI, shaping the developer experience and refining go-to-market positioning.
Collaborate with Confluent's broader product and platform teams to ensure tight integration with Kafka, Flink, and Confluent Cloud.
Define success metrics, cost models, and pricing strategy for a new product area.
Influence Confluent's company-wide platform strategy through executive-level communication and cross-functional leadership.
Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
8+ years of experience in product management or related technical roles.
5+ years of experience taking technical infrastructure or data products from conception to launch.
Deep familiarity with real-time analytics, database internals, or streaming data platform architecture, either through product management or hands-on engineering.
Experience defining and launching products in the data infrastructure, analytics database, or stream processing space.
Strong technical judgment, comfortable navigating tradeoffs in distributed systems, storage engines, query performance, and cost optimization.
Track record of leading cross-functional initiatives with executive-level visibility and communicating technical strategy to senior leadership.
Engineering background in analytical databases, stream processing, or distributed storage systems.
Experience with real-time OLAP engines (e.g., ClickHouse, Apache Druid, StarRocks, Apache Pinot) as a builder, product manager, or power user.
Familiarity with Kafka, Flink, or similar streaming infrastructure.
Experience building products that serve AI/ML workloads for retrieval, feature serving, or context delivery.
Prior experience with cloud-native infrastructure products and consumption-based pricing models.
Experience working on open source data infrastructure projects.
Belonging isn’t a perk here. It’s the baseline. We work across time zones and backgrounds, knowing the best ideas come from different perspectives. And we make space for everyone to lead, grow, and challenge what’s possible.
We’re proud to be an equal opportunity 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.
Confluent is an IBM subsidiary which has been acquired by IBM and will be integrated into the IBM organization. By proceeding with this application, you understand that Confluent will share your personal information with other IBM affiliates involved in your recruitment process, wherever these are located. More Information on how IBM protects your personal information, including the safeguards in case of cross-border data transfer, are available here.
","descriptionPlain":"We’re not just building better tech. We’re rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real-time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them.\n\nIt takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together.\n\nOne Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.\n\n\nABOUT THE ROLE:\n\nToday, enterprises stitch together separate systems for streaming, analytics, and serving. Each of these systems come with its own latency, cost, and operational overhead. The next evolution of Confluent's platform collapses that complexity by continuously materializing streaming data into fast, queryable state that serves real-time analytics, operational applications, and downstream intelligent systems from a single foundation.\n\n\n\nAs a Staff Product Manager, you'll own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for the core streaming analytics engine underlying Confluent's real-time data platform. This system sits at the intersection of stream processing, real-time analytical databases, and modern serving infrastructure, continuously transforming data in motion into low-latency, queryable materialized views that power AI agents, dashboards, operational queries, and event-driven applications. You'll own the engine: the storage, materialization, query layer, and performance, while partnering with peer product managers who own the downstream product experiences built on top of it.\n\n\n\nThis is a foundational, high-leverage role. You'll define a new product category that brings together concepts from streaming analytics, real-time OLAP, materialized views, and modern database systems into a cloud-native, streaming-first architecture. You'll partner directly with engineering, design, and senior leadership to bring this to market and position Confluent as a compelling alternative to standalone real-time analytical databases.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL DO:\n\n - Own the product strategy for Confluent's streaming analytics engine: storage, materialization, query serving, performance, and developer experience.\n\n - Develop competitive strategy against established real-time analytical databases, articulating Confluent's differentiated value as a streaming-native alternative.\n\n - Drive key architectural and product tradeoffs across consistency, latency, query performance, cost, and developer ergonomics.\n\n - Partner deeply with engineering to navigate the technical complexity of building a new cloud-native data system at scale.\n\n - Collaborate with peer product managers who own downstream experiences including AI, context delivery, and application integration, to ensure the engine meets the needs of the products built on it.\n\n - Work with customers and design partners to validate use cases across real-time analytics, operational applications, and AI, shaping the developer experience and refining go-to-market positioning.\n\n - Collaborate with Confluent's broader product and platform teams to ensure tight integration with Kafka, Flink, and Confluent Cloud.\n\n - Define success metrics, cost models, and pricing strategy for a new product area.\n\n - Influence Confluent's company-wide platform strategy through executive-level communication and cross-functional leadership.\n \n \n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL BRING:\n\n - Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.\n\n - 8+ years of experience in product management or related technical roles.\n\n - 5+ years of experience taking technical infrastructure or data products from conception to launch.\n\n - Deep familiarity with real-time analytics, database internals, or streaming data platform architecture, either through product management or hands-on engineering.\n\n - Experience defining and launching products in the data infrastructure, analytics database, or stream processing space.\n\n - Strong technical judgment, comfortable navigating tradeoffs in distributed systems, storage engines, query performance, and cost optimization.\n\n - Track record of leading cross-functional initiatives with executive-level visibility and communicating technical strategy to senior leadership.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT GIVES YOU AN EDGE:\n\n - Engineering background in analytical databases, stream processing, or distributed storage systems.\n\n - Experience with real-time OLAP engines (e.g., ClickHouse, Apache Druid, StarRocks, Apache Pinot) as a builder, product manager, or power user.\n\n - Familiarity with Kafka, Flink, or similar streaming infrastructure.\n\n - Experience building products that serve AI/ML workloads for retrieval, feature serving, or context delivery.\n\n - Prior experience with cloud-native infrastructure products and consumption-based pricing models.\n\n - Experience working on open source data infrastructure projects.\n\n\nREADY TO BUILD WHAT'S NEXT? LET’S GET IN MOTION.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCOME AS YOU ARE\n\nBelonging isn’t a perk here. It’s the baseline. We work across time zones and backgrounds, knowing the best ideas come from different perspectives. And we make space for everyone to lead, grow, and challenge what’s possible.\n\nWe’re proud to be an equal opportunity 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.\n\n\n\n\nPRIVACY STATEMENT\n\nConfluent is an IBM subsidiary which has been acquired by IBM and will be integrated into the IBM organization. By proceeding with this application, you understand that Confluent will share your personal information with other IBM affiliates involved in your recruitment process, wherever these are located. More Information on how IBM protects your personal information, including the safeguards in case of cross-border data transfer, are available here http://ibm.com/careers/us-en/privacy-policy/."},{"id":"85107937-8f12-4336-abb8-e88f344c6bcc","title":"Principal Engineer, Engineering AI Productivity","department":"Engineering","team":"Engineering","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Remote, United States","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-05-13T23:08:32.501+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Remote","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"United States"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/confluent/85107937-8f12-4336-abb8-e88f344c6bcc","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/confluent/85107937-8f12-4336-abb8-e88f344c6bcc/application","descriptionHtml":"We’re not just building better tech. We’re rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real-time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them.
It takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together.
One Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.
We’re seeking a strategic and hands-on technical leader to define and drive Confluent’s internal agentic AI capabilities, and adoption of smart, automated decisioning systems for R&D productivity. In this role, you will partner across Engineering, Security, and IT to scale AI usage across our platform to accelerate value for customers and the business.
You will operationalize a vision where AI augments developers, automates routine tasks, and orchestrates intelligent workflows that unlock new usage patterns.
Strategy & Vision
Define and evangelize the AI and agentic flows strategy — aligning business metrics, engineering needs, and platform opportunities.
Build a roadmap for introducing agentic automation features, smart assistants, and AI-driven workflows across all aspects of engineering.
Identify and resolve bottlenecks across the entire product and software development life cycle.
Cross-Functional Leadership
Partner with Engineering, Trust and Security to integrate AI capabilities responsibly and at scale.
Operationalize AI adoption internally and share use cases externally
Drive complex cross-team projects requiring multi-stakeholder alignment
Continuously raise the bar for code/architectural quality across engineering
Execution & Delivery
Lead the delivery of core agentic workflows that improves productivity across engineering
Balance of hands-on contributions with effective delegation to others. Expect 60% execution and 40% strategy setting.
Drive measurable adoption of AI tooling and flows with internal teams
Governance & Best Practices
Ability to adopt industry standards, ethical frameworks, guardrails, and quality metrics for AI behavior and automated flows.
Define success metrics and KPIs (e.g., AI-driven usage lift, automation ROI, reduction in manual workflows).
Thought Leadership
Participate in external forums — conferences, podcasts, customer briefings on occasion
Evolve as the technology landscape shifts
Write internal playbooks for building and scaling agentic outcomes.
Technical and Product Acumen
8+ years driving strategic productivity initiatives, ideally in SaaS/Cloud platforms or developer tools with some proven experience in AI initiatives.
Considered an expert in building distributed systems and/or the infrastructure and tools to support it.
Leadership & Collaboration
Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and influence senior stakeholders without direct authority.
Strong communicator who can translate complex technical strategies into impact-oriented outcomes.
Execution Focus
Demonstrated track record delivering products or features that generated measurable business value.
Comfortable defining success criteria, metrics, and ROI for ambiguous, future-facing domains.
AI/ML & Automation
Hands-on experience with AI or adjacent AI/ML platform experience with LLM integration and workflow automation, with demonstrated appetite to build toward agentic patterns
Deep understanding of responsible AI practices and governance.
Customer & Business Mindset
Passion for solving real customer problems with elegant, scalable solutions.
Ability to tie technical efforts directly to business KPIs (adoption, retention, revenue impact).
Experience working in cloud-native platforms or developer ecosystems.
Prior leadership in scaling internal AI platforms or driving AI adoption across large organizations.
Background in real-time data, event-driven architecture, or platform engineering.
If you’re someone looking to bring agentic system design to production scale, let’s talk.
Belonging isn’t a perk here. It’s the baseline. We work across time zones and backgrounds, knowing the best ideas come from different perspectives. And we make space for everyone to lead, grow, and challenge what’s possible.
We’re proud to be an equal opportunity 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.
Confluent is an IBM subsidiary which has been acquired by IBM and will be integrated into the IBM organization. By proceeding with this application, you understand that Confluent will share your personal information with other IBM affiliates involved in your recruitment process, wherever these are located. More Information on how IBM protects your personal information, including the safeguards in case of cross-border data transfer, are available here.
","descriptionPlain":"We’re not just building better tech. We’re rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real-time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them.\n\nIt takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together.\n\nOne Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE ROLE:\n\nWe’re seeking a strategic and hands-on technical leader to define and drive Confluent’s internal agentic AI capabilities, and adoption of smart, automated decisioning systems for R&D productivity. In this role, you will partner across Engineering, Security, and IT to scale AI usage across our platform to accelerate value for customers and the business.\n\n\n\nYou will operationalize a vision where AI augments developers, automates routine tasks, and orchestrates intelligent workflows that unlock new usage patterns.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL DO:\n\n - Strategy & Vision\n \n - Define and evangelize the AI and agentic flows strategy — aligning business metrics, engineering needs, and platform opportunities.\n \n - Build a roadmap for introducing agentic automation features, smart assistants, and AI-driven workflows across all aspects of engineering.\n \n - Identify and resolve bottlenecks across the entire product and software development life cycle.\n \n \n\n - Cross-Functional Leadership\n \n - Partner with Engineering, Trust and Security to integrate AI capabilities responsibly and at scale.\n \n - Operationalize AI adoption internally and share use cases externally\n \n - Drive complex cross-team projects requiring multi-stakeholder alignment\n \n - Continuously raise the bar for code/architectural quality across engineering\n \n \n\n - Execution & Delivery\n \n - Lead the delivery of core agentic workflows that improves productivity across engineering\n \n - Balance of hands-on contributions with effective delegation to others. Expect 60% execution and 40% strategy setting.\n \n - Drive measurable adoption of AI tooling and flows with internal teams\n \n \n\n - Governance & Best Practices\n \n - Ability to adopt industry standards, ethical frameworks, guardrails, and quality metrics for AI behavior and automated flows.\n \n - Define success metrics and KPIs (e.g., AI-driven usage lift, automation ROI, reduction in manual workflows).\n \n \n\n - Thought Leadership\n \n - Participate in external forums — conferences, podcasts, customer briefings on occasion\n \n - Evolve as the technology landscape shifts\n \n - Write internal playbooks for building and scaling agentic outcomes.\n \n \n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL BRING:\n\n - Technical and Product Acumen\n \n - 8+ years driving strategic productivity initiatives, ideally in SaaS/Cloud platforms or developer tools with some proven experience in AI initiatives.\n \n - Considered an expert in building distributed systems and/or the infrastructure and tools to support it.\n \n \n\n - Leadership & Collaboration\n \n - Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and influence senior stakeholders without direct authority.\n \n - Strong communicator who can translate complex technical strategies into impact-oriented outcomes.\n \n \n\n - Execution Focus\n \n - Demonstrated track record delivering products or features that generated measurable business value.\n \n - Comfortable defining success criteria, metrics, and ROI for ambiguous, future-facing domains.\n \n \n\n - AI/ML & Automation\n \n - Hands-on experience with AI or adjacent AI/ML platform experience with LLM integration and workflow automation, with demonstrated appetite to build toward agentic patterns\n \n - Deep understanding of responsible AI practices and governance.\n \n \n\n - Customer & Business Mindset\n \n - Passion for solving real customer problems with elegant, scalable solutions.\n \n - Ability to tie technical efforts directly to business KPIs (adoption, retention, revenue impact).\n \n \n\n\n\n\nWHAT GIVES YOU AN EDGE:\n\n - Experience working in cloud-native platforms or developer ecosystems.\n\n - Prior leadership in scaling internal AI platforms or driving AI adoption across large organizations.\n\n - Background in real-time data, event-driven architecture, or platform engineering.\n\n\n\nIf you’re someone looking to bring agentic system design to production scale, let’s talk.\n\n\n\n\nREADY TO BUILD WHAT'S NEXT? LET’S GET IN MOTION.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCOME AS YOU ARE\n\nBelonging isn’t a perk here. It’s the baseline. We work across time zones and backgrounds, knowing the best ideas come from different perspectives. And we make space for everyone to lead, grow, and challenge what’s possible.\n\nWe’re proud to be an equal opportunity 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.\n\n\n\n\nPRIVACY STATEMENT\n\nConfluent is an IBM subsidiary which has been acquired by IBM and will be integrated into the IBM organization. By proceeding with this application, you understand that Confluent will share your personal information with other IBM affiliates involved in your recruitment process, wherever these are located. More Information on how IBM protects your personal information, including the safeguards in case of cross-border data transfer, are available here http://ibm.com/careers/us-en/privacy-policy/."},{"id":"856698ca-f3cc-4ccd-986a-c57e7ef9e574","title":"Senior Software Engineer II","department":"Engineering","team":"Engineering","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Seattle, Washington","secondaryLocations":[{"location":"Remote, California","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States"}}},{"location":"Remote, United States","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"United States"}}}],"publishedAt":"2026-03-19T04:40:13.744+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Remote","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"Washington","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"Seattle"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/confluent/856698ca-f3cc-4ccd-986a-c57e7ef9e574","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/confluent/856698ca-f3cc-4ccd-986a-c57e7ef9e574/application","descriptionHtml":"We’re not just building better tech. We’re rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real-time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them.
It takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together.
One Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.
Senior Software Engineers II at Confluent take ownership of critical backend systems that underpin our data streaming platform. You’ll lead the design and delivery of large-scale, distributed services that must be secure, highly available, and easy to operate across regions and clouds.
This is a general L4 backend role used across multiple teams. Depending on your background, you may focus on areas like core platform services, governance and metadata, observability and telemetry, security and access, or customer-facing application services. We’ll align you to a team during the process based on your experience, interests, and business needs.
You’ll act as a technical leader: setting direction for projects, making architecture decisions, mentoring engineers, and partnering with cross-functional stakeholders to ship high-impact work.
Own and lead the design and implementation of complex backend services and systems in a cloud-native, microservices-based environment.
Make architecture and technical decisions that balance reliability, scalability, performance, and operability, and clearly communicate the tradeoffs.
Drive projects end to end: from requirements and design through implementation, rollout, and ongoing operation in production.
Improve service reliability and operations by defining SLOs/SLAs, strengthening observability, and participating in on-call as needed.
Collaborate across teams to define APIs, integration points, and data models that keep the platform coherent and evolvable.
Identify and drive platform and productivity improvements (tooling, automation, process) that raise the bar for the broader engineering organization.
Mentor and support other engineers through code reviews, design reviews, and technical guidance, helping grow the team’s capabilities.
Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement, inclusive collaboration, and high technical standards.
5+ years of industry experience building, scaling, and operating backend systems in production.
Deep proficiency in at least one major backend programming language (for example, Java, Go, C/C++, or Python) and strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and system design.
Hands-on experience with distributed systems (such as event-driven architectures, high-throughput services, or large-scale data pipelines) and an understanding of consistency, fault tolerance, and performance tradeoffs.
Strong experience running services in a public cloud (AWS, GCP, or Azure), including containers and orchestration (for example, Docker, Kubernetes) and modern deployment practices.
Comfortable working with databases and storage systems (SQL and/or NoSQL), including data modeling and performance optimization for scale.
A track record of technical leadership: driving projects, influencing architecture, and coordinating work across multiple engineers or teams.
Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to align stakeholders, explain complex ideas clearly, and drive decisions.
Experience with observability and operational excellence (metrics, logging, tracing, incident response, and postmortems).
BS, MS, or PhD in computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Belonging isn’t a perk here. It’s the baseline. We work across time zones and backgrounds, knowing the best ideas come from different perspectives. And we make space for everyone to lead, grow, and challenge what’s possible.
We’re proud to be an equal opportunity 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.
Confluent is an IBM subsidiary which has been acquired by IBM and will be integrated into the IBM organization. By proceeding with this application, you understand that Confluent will share your personal information with other IBM affiliates involved in your recruitment process, wherever these are located. More Information on how IBM protects your personal information, including the safeguards in case of cross-border data transfer, are available here.
","descriptionPlain":"We’re not just building better tech. We’re rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real-time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them.\n\nIt takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together.\n\nOne Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.\n\n\nABOUT THE ROLE:\n\nSenior Software Engineers II at Confluent take ownership of critical backend systems that underpin our data streaming platform. You’ll lead the design and delivery of large-scale, distributed services that must be secure, highly available, and easy to operate across regions and clouds.\n\nThis is a general L4 backend role used across multiple teams. Depending on your background, you may focus on areas like core platform services, governance and metadata, observability and telemetry, security and access, or customer-facing application services. We’ll align you to a team during the process based on your experience, interests, and business needs.\n\nYou’ll act as a technical leader: setting direction for projects, making architecture decisions, mentoring engineers, and partnering with cross-functional stakeholders to ship high-impact work.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL DO:\n\n - Own and lead the design and implementation of complex backend services and systems in a cloud-native, microservices-based environment.\n\n - Make architecture and technical decisions that balance reliability, scalability, performance, and operability, and clearly communicate the tradeoffs.\n\n - Drive projects end to end: from requirements and design through implementation, rollout, and ongoing operation in production.\n\n - Improve service reliability and operations by defining SLOs/SLAs, strengthening observability, and participating in on-call as needed.\n\n - Collaborate across teams to define APIs, integration points, and data models that keep the platform coherent and evolvable.\n\n - Identify and drive platform and productivity improvements (tooling, automation, process) that raise the bar for the broader engineering organization.\n\n - Mentor and support other engineers through code reviews, design reviews, and technical guidance, helping grow the team’s capabilities.\n\n - Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement, inclusive collaboration, and high technical standards.\n \n \n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL BRING:\n\n - 5+ years of industry experience building, scaling, and operating backend systems in production.\n\n - Deep proficiency in at least one major backend programming language (for example, Java, Go, C/C++, or Python) and strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and system design.\n\n - Hands-on experience with distributed systems (such as event-driven architectures, high-throughput services, or large-scale data pipelines) and an understanding of consistency, fault tolerance, and performance tradeoffs.\n\n - Strong experience running services in a public cloud (AWS, GCP, or Azure), including containers and orchestration (for example, Docker, Kubernetes) and modern deployment practices.\n\n - Comfortable working with databases and storage systems (SQL and/or NoSQL), including data modeling and performance optimization for scale.\n\n - A track record of technical leadership: driving projects, influencing architecture, and coordinating work across multiple engineers or teams.\n\n - Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to align stakeholders, explain complex ideas clearly, and drive decisions.\n\n - Experience with observability and operational excellence (metrics, logging, tracing, incident response, and postmortems).\n\n - BS, MS, or PhD in computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.\n\n\nREADY TO BUILD WHAT'S NEXT? LET’S GET IN MOTION.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCOME AS YOU ARE\n\nBelonging isn’t a perk here. It’s the baseline. We work across time zones and backgrounds, knowing the best ideas come from different perspectives. And we make space for everyone to lead, grow, and challenge what’s possible.\n\nWe’re proud to be an equal opportunity 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.\n\n\n\n\nPRIVACY STATEMENT\n\nConfluent is an IBM subsidiary which has been acquired by IBM and will be integrated into the IBM organization. By proceeding with this application, you understand that Confluent will share your personal information with other IBM affiliates involved in your recruitment process, wherever these are located. More Information on how IBM protects your personal information, including the safeguards in case of cross-border data transfer, are available here http://ibm.com/careers/us-en/privacy-policy/."},{"id":"8606dc2b-3ad7-4423-9cbb-c7e6df0a1ae5","title":"Staff Software Engineer ","department":"Engineering","team":"Engineering","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Remote, United States","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-05-15T19:39:30.593+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Remote","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"United States"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/confluent/8606dc2b-3ad7-4423-9cbb-c7e6df0a1ae5","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/confluent/8606dc2b-3ad7-4423-9cbb-c7e6df0a1ae5/application","descriptionHtml":"We’re not just building better tech. We’re rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real-time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them.
It takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together.
One Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.
The Flink Platform team is at the forefront of building a robust control plane for the Flink product, leveraging advanced database storage to ensure high reliability and efficiency. With a vision centered on innovation and excellence, this team is critical to advancing Confluent's Data in Motion initiative and is committed to supplying the industry with solutions that cater to evolving stream processing demands.
Developing the control plane services that orchestrate Flink job lifecycles (submission, scaling, recovery). Building Kubernetes operators and orchestrators for serverless resource management. Designing APIs for job management, multi-tenancy, and isolation.
Following a holistic development approach you will be responsible for the code quality, test coverage, documentation and maintainability of the components you and your team work on.
Designing Components: You will not only implement aspects of Flink Control Plane but also draft designs, discuss them and curate and moderate a decision with involved stakeholders.
Team: As part of the team you will help to follow and maintain processes, by being an active part of the team, leading meetings and taking initiatives where feasible and participating in on-call rotations.
Mentoring: You will mentor other engineers with less experience in Control plane architecture to get started in the community and more junior developers to get into the area of serverless Apache Flink.
10+ years of relevant software development experience.
Technical Expertise: Deep knowledge of distributed systems orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes, control loops). Experience building high-scale control planes, API servers, or cloud-native infrastructure. Knowledge of containerization, networking, and resource isolation.
Problem Solving: Strong problem-solving skills, capable of translating complex requirements into effective solutions.
Communication: Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to collaborate across teams.
Belonging isn’t a perk here. It’s the baseline. We work across time zones and backgrounds, knowing the best ideas come from different perspectives. And we make space for everyone to lead, grow, and challenge what’s possible.
We’re proud to be an equal opportunity 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.
Confluent is an IBM subsidiary which has been acquired by IBM and will be integrated into the IBM organization. By proceeding with this application, you understand that Confluent will share your personal information with other IBM affiliates involved in your recruitment process, wherever these are located. More Information on how IBM protects your personal information, including the safeguards in case of cross-border data transfer, are available here.
","descriptionPlain":"We’re not just building better tech. We’re rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real-time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them.\n\nIt takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together.\n\nOne Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.\n\n\n\nABOUT THE ROLE:\n\nThe Flink Platform team is at the forefront of building a robust control plane for the Flink product, leveraging advanced database storage to ensure high reliability and efficiency. With a vision centered on innovation and excellence, this team is critical to advancing Confluent's Data in Motion initiative and is committed to supplying the industry with solutions that cater to evolving stream processing demands.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL DO:\n\n - Developing the control plane services that orchestrate Flink job lifecycles (submission, scaling, recovery). Building Kubernetes operators and orchestrators for serverless resource management. Designing APIs for job management, multi-tenancy, and isolation.\n\n - Following a holistic development approach you will be responsible for the code quality, test coverage, documentation and maintainability of the components you and your team work on.\n\n - Designing Components: You will not only implement aspects of Flink Control Plane but also draft designs, discuss them and curate and moderate a decision with involved stakeholders.\n\n - Team: As part of the team you will help to follow and maintain processes, by being an active part of the team, leading meetings and taking initiatives where feasible and participating in on-call rotations.\n\n - Mentoring: You will mentor other engineers with less experience in Control plane architecture to get started in the community and more junior developers to get into the area of serverless Apache Flink.\n \n \n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL BRING:\n\n - 10+ years of relevant software development experience.\n\n - Technical Expertise: Deep knowledge of distributed systems orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes, control loops). Experience building high-scale control planes, API servers, or cloud-native infrastructure. Knowledge of containerization, networking, and resource isolation.\n\n - Problem Solving: Strong problem-solving skills, capable of translating complex requirements into effective solutions.\n\n - Communication: Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to collaborate across teams.\n \n \n\n\nREADY TO BUILD WHAT'S NEXT? LET’S GET IN MOTION.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCOME AS YOU ARE\n\nBelonging isn’t a perk here. It’s the baseline. We work across time zones and backgrounds, knowing the best ideas come from different perspectives. And we make space for everyone to lead, grow, and challenge what’s possible.\n\nWe’re proud to be an equal opportunity 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.\n\n\n\n\nPRIVACY STATEMENT\n\nConfluent is an IBM subsidiary which has been acquired by IBM and will be integrated into the IBM organization. By proceeding with this application, you understand that Confluent will share your personal information with other IBM affiliates involved in your recruitment process, wherever these are located. More Information on how IBM protects your personal information, including the safeguards in case of cross-border data transfer, are available here http://ibm.com/careers/us-en/privacy-policy/."},{"id":"8b41454a-1025-418b-b7eb-642dd8408219","title":"Senior Software Engineer","department":"Engineering","team":"Engineering","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"GB Remote United Kingdom","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-03-04T00:02:52.786+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":null,"workplaceType":null,"address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"London, City of","addressCountry":"United Kingdom","addressLocality":"London"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/confluent/8b41454a-1025-418b-b7eb-642dd8408219","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/confluent/8b41454a-1025-418b-b7eb-642dd8408219/application","descriptionHtml":"We’re not just building better tech. We’re rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real-time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them.
It takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together.
One Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.
The Confluent Cloud Platform based on Apache Kafka is the leading Cloud Native Platform as a Service for streaming data infrastructure, but this is just the beginning. We are building a PaaS enabling customer around the globe to deliver streaming applications.
Design, implement and maintain Golang infrastructure services (typically implemented as Kubernetes operators) to deliver the Confluent cloud foundations to the wider engineering organization
Terraform, Datadog, Prometheus and a strong command of Linux, public cloud and networking should come as standard - though Golang software engineering will be your primary focus
As a Confluent Cloud Infrastructure Software Engineer, you will be working alongside the rest of the Confluent engineers to build our PaaS product
You, and the rest of the team, will be responsible for the availability, performance, monitoring, emergency response, and capacity planning of the Confluent cloud
If you love the hum of big data systems covering 10,000's of instances, thinking about how to make them run as smoothly and securely as possible, and want to have a big influence on the architecture plus operational design points of this new product, then you will fit right in
BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience
4+ years of relevant cloud infrastructure/cloud networking experience
Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development
Experience building and operating large-scale systems
Solid understanding of basic systems operations (disk, network, operating systems, etc)
A self-starter with the ability to work effectively in teams
Proficiency in Go, Python, C++, or other statically typed languages
Experience/knowledge with public clouds (AWS, Azure or GCP)
Experience with Golang is advantageous
Experience using Apache Kafka is a big plus
Belonging isn’t a perk here. It’s the baseline. We work across time zones and backgrounds, knowing the best ideas come from different perspectives. And we make space for everyone to lead, grow, and challenge what’s possible.
We’re proud to be an equal opportunity 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.
Confluent is an IBM subsidiary which has been acquired by IBM and will be integrated into the IBM organization. By proceeding with this application, you understand that Confluent will share your personal information with other IBM affiliates involved in your recruitment process, wherever these are located. More Information on how IBM protects your personal information, including the safeguards in case of cross-border data transfer, are available here.
","descriptionPlain":"We’re not just building better tech. We’re rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real-time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them.\n\nIt takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together.\n\nOne Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.\n\n\nABOUT THE ROLE:\n\nThe Confluent Cloud Platform based on Apache Kafka is the leading Cloud Native Platform as a Service for streaming data infrastructure, but this is just the beginning. We are building a PaaS enabling customer around the globe to deliver streaming applications.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL DO:\n\n - Design, implement and maintain Golang infrastructure services (typically implemented as Kubernetes operators) to deliver the Confluent cloud foundations to the wider engineering organization\n\n - Terraform, Datadog, Prometheus and a strong command of Linux, public cloud and networking should come as standard - though Golang software engineering will be your primary focus\n\n - As a Confluent Cloud Infrastructure Software Engineer, you will be working alongside the rest of the Confluent engineers to build our PaaS product\n\n - You, and the rest of the team, will be responsible for the availability, performance, monitoring, emergency response, and capacity planning of the Confluent cloud\n\n - If you love the hum of big data systems covering 10,000's of instances, thinking about how to make them run as smoothly and securely as possible, and want to have a big influence on the architecture plus operational design points of this new product, then you will fit right in\n \n \n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL BRING:\n\n - BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience\n\n - 4+ years of relevant cloud infrastructure/cloud networking experience\n\n - Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development\n\n - Experience building and operating large-scale systems\n\n - Solid understanding of basic systems operations (disk, network, operating systems, etc)\n\n - A self-starter with the ability to work effectively in teams\n\n - Proficiency in Go, Python, C++, or other statically typed languages\n\n - Experience/knowledge with public clouds (AWS, Azure or GCP)\n\n\n\n\nWHAT GIVES YOU AN EDGE:\n\n - Experience with Golang is advantageous\n\n - Experience using Apache Kafka is a big plus\n\n\nREADY TO BUILD WHAT'S NEXT? LET’S GET IN MOTION.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCOME AS YOU ARE\n\nBelonging isn’t a perk here. It’s the baseline. We work across time zones and backgrounds, knowing the best ideas come from different perspectives. And we make space for everyone to lead, grow, and challenge what’s possible.\n\nWe’re proud to be an equal opportunity 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.\n\n\n\n\nPRIVACY STATEMENT\n\nConfluent is an IBM subsidiary which has been acquired by IBM and will be integrated into the IBM organization. By proceeding with this application, you understand that Confluent will share your personal information with other IBM affiliates involved in your recruitment process, wherever these are located. More Information on how IBM protects your personal information, including the safeguards in case of cross-border data transfer, are available here http://ibm.com/careers/us-en/privacy-policy/."},{"id":"905efbaa-d814-4b16-a377-d417c7d3d772","title":"Senior Software Engineer","department":"Engineering","team":"Engineering","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"*Job Posting Only: USA1","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-06-23T22:52:30.971+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Remote","address":null,"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/confluent/905efbaa-d814-4b16-a377-d417c7d3d772","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/confluent/905efbaa-d814-4b16-a377-d417c7d3d772/application","descriptionHtml":"We’re not just building better tech. We’re rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real-time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them.
It takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together.
One Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.
We are a team of passionate engineers who love solving complex distributed storage systems and infrastructure problems. Through the Tableflow project, we are building the next generation of storage solutions for Kora, transforming it into a true multi-modal storage engine. Our goal is to enable streaming data to be consumed both as a table and as a stream seamlessly. If you're interested in learning more about the challenges we are tackling, check out our blog post: Tableflow: The Stream/Table, Kafka/Iceberg Duality.
As a Senior Software Engineer on the team, you will focus on advancing key layers of the Tableflow project, including its multi-tenant, highly available compute infrastructure, and the core components responsible for table materialization and background maintenance. You will tackle challenges such as developing strategies for efficient table materialization and maintenance at massive scale across all of Confluent Cloud, ensuring high availability and scalability for background storage tasks.
Storage Engine Development: Design and implement innovative strategies for table schematization, materialization, and compaction at massive scale.
Platform Engineering: Build and maintain multi-tenant, highly available infrastructure that powers background computational tasks for Kora’s long-term storage. Ensure that the platform is optimized for scalability, reliability, and resilience, in alignment with organizational objectives.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate with product management, design, and other engineering teams to ensure seamless integration of storage features and infrastructure with the broader organization.
BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience
Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence and guide stakeholders at all levels.
Familiarity with or has experience contributing to the following open-source technologies: Apache Kafka, Apache Iceberg, Apache Flink
Experience/knowledge with public clouds (AWS, Azure or GCP)
Belonging isn’t a perk here. It’s the baseline. We work across time zones and backgrounds, knowing the best ideas come from different perspectives. And we make space for everyone to lead, grow, and challenge what’s possible.
We’re proud to be an equal opportunity 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.
Confluent is an IBM subsidiary which has been acquired by IBM and will be integrated into the IBM organization. By proceeding with this application, you understand that Confluent will share your personal information with other IBM affiliates involved in your recruitment process, wherever these are located. More Information on how IBM protects your personal information, including the safeguards in case of cross-border data transfer, are available here.
","descriptionPlain":"We’re not just building better tech. We’re rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real-time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them.\n\nIt takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together.\n\nOne Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.\n\n\nABOUT THE ROLE:\n\nWe are a team of passionate engineers who love solving complex distributed storage systems and infrastructure problems. Through the Tableflow https://www.confluent.io/product/tableflow/ project, we are building the next generation of storage solutions for Kora, transforming it into a true multi-modal storage engine. Our goal is to enable streaming data to be consumed both as a table and as a stream seamlessly. If you're interested in learning more about the challenges we are tackling, check out our blog post: Tableflow: The Stream/Table, Kafka/Iceberg Duality https://jack-vanlightly.com/blog/2024/3/19/tableflow-the-stream-table-kafka-iceberg-duality.\n\n\n\nAs a Senior Software Engineer on the team, you will focus on advancing key layers of the Tableflow project, including its multi-tenant, highly available compute infrastructure, and the core components responsible for table materialization and background maintenance. You will tackle challenges such as developing strategies for efficient table materialization and maintenance at massive scale across all of Confluent Cloud, ensuring high availability and scalability for background storage tasks.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL DO:\n\n - Storage Engine Development: Design and implement innovative strategies for table schematization, materialization, and compaction at massive scale.\n\n - Platform Engineering: Build and maintain multi-tenant, highly available infrastructure that powers background computational tasks for Kora’s long-term storage. Ensure that the platform is optimized for scalability, reliability, and resilience, in alignment with organizational objectives.\n\n - Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate with product management, design, and other engineering teams to ensure seamless integration of storage features and infrastructure with the broader organization.\n \n \n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL BRING:\n\n - BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience\n\n - Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence and guide stakeholders at all levels.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT GIVES YOU AN EDGE:\n\n - Familiarity with or has experience contributing to the following open-source technologies: Apache Kafka, Apache Iceberg, Apache Flink\n\n - Experience/knowledge with public clouds (AWS, Azure or GCP)\n\n\nREADY TO BUILD WHAT'S NEXT? LET’S GET IN MOTION.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCOME AS YOU ARE\n\nBelonging isn’t a perk here. It’s the baseline. We work across time zones and backgrounds, knowing the best ideas come from different perspectives. And we make space for everyone to lead, grow, and challenge what’s possible.\n\nWe’re proud to be an equal opportunity 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.\n\n\n\n\nPRIVACY STATEMENT\n\nConfluent is an IBM subsidiary which has been acquired by IBM and will be integrated into the IBM organization. By proceeding with this application, you understand that Confluent will share your personal information with other IBM affiliates involved in your recruitment process, wherever these are located. More Information on how IBM protects your personal information, including the safeguards in case of cross-border data transfer, are available here http://ibm.com/careers/us-en/privacy-policy/."},{"id":"90949913-fc2b-47aa-8015-fcd264b352ae","title":"Staff Software Engineer - Apache Kafka","department":"Engineering","team":"Engineering","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"PL Remote Poland","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-03-23T23:30:38.732+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Remote","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"Masovian","addressCountry":"Poland","addressLocality":"Warsaw"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/confluent/90949913-fc2b-47aa-8015-fcd264b352ae","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/confluent/90949913-fc2b-47aa-8015-fcd264b352ae/application","descriptionHtml":"We’re not just building better tech. We’re rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. 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It takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together.
One Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.
We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to work on various features and improvements in the Apache Kafka software. In this role, you will work closely with the Apache community as well as senior engineers on the team to build features, work on Kafka improvements and help review designs.. The features you build will cut across various components in the Kafka software stack including the Clients, Streams, Broker and other backend services. You will contribute to the performance improvements, operational aspects and innovate the stack.
As a Staff Software Engineer, you will be a technical leader whose work significantly impacts the product, engineering organization, and customer success.
Collaborate with the Apache Kafka community via KIPs, code contributions, reviews, and technical discussions; represent Confluent’s interests while keeping the broader ecosystem in mind.
Drive projects that have high complexity requiring technical acumen, a high level of judgement and able to deal with ambiguity.
Be a force multiplier and show strong ability to mentor and grow the team with guidance on strong design principles and software architecture.
Insist on high standards for the quality of software the team is developing.
Communicate with product management and engineering leaders on the roadmap, understand the specs and the product interfaces.
Drive operational excellence on reliability improvements, operational events and supportability
Demonstrate strong verbal and written communication skills to influence teams/peers beyond immediate span of control.
Experience:
Track record of delivering complex systems projects with large scope (multi quarter design and development) leading a team of engineers, setting direction for projects, working with stakeholders, adept at using AI tools for coding and working backwards from the customers.
4+ years driving staff-level or equivalent technical initiatives across multiple teams or components.
Leadership & Influence:
Demonstrated ability to lead through ambiguity, set direction, and align multiple teams around complex technical plans.
Track record of mentoring senior engineers and enabling others to deliver on high-risk, high-impact projects.
Clear, concise technical communication, both written (design docs, KIPs) and verbal (reviews, cross-team forums).
Prior experience as a committer/PMC or core maintainer on Apache Kafka or a similar project.
Belonging isn’t a perk here. It’s the baseline. We work across time zones and backgrounds, knowing the best ideas come from different perspectives. And we make space for everyone to lead, grow, and challenge what’s possible.
We’re proud to be an equal opportunity 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.
Confluent is an IBM subsidiary which has been acquired by IBM and will be integrated into the IBM organization. By proceeding with this application, you understand that Confluent will share your personal information with other IBM affiliates involved in your recruitment process, wherever these are located. More Information on how IBM protects your personal information, including the safeguards in case of cross-border data transfer, are available here.
","descriptionPlain":"We’re not just building better tech. We’re rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real-time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them.\n\nIt takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together.\n\nOne Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.\n\n\nABOUT THE ROLE:\n\nWe are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to work on various features and improvements in the Apache Kafka software. In this role, you will work closely with the Apache community as well as senior engineers on the team to build features, work on Kafka improvements and help review designs.. The features you build will cut across various components in the Kafka software stack including the Clients, Streams, Broker and other backend services. You will contribute to the performance improvements, operational aspects and innovate the stack.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL DO:\n\nAs a Staff Software Engineer, you will be a technical leader whose work significantly impacts the product, engineering organization, and customer success.\n\n - Collaborate with the Apache Kafka community via KIPs, code contributions, reviews, and technical discussions; represent Confluent’s interests while keeping the broader ecosystem in mind.\n\n - Drive projects that have high complexity requiring technical acumen, a high level of judgement and able to deal with ambiguity.\n\n - Be a force multiplier and show strong ability to mentor and grow the team with guidance on strong design principles and software architecture.\n\n - Insist on high standards for the quality of software the team is developing.\n\n - Communicate with product management and engineering leaders on the roadmap, understand the specs and the product interfaces.\n\n - Drive operational excellence on reliability improvements, operational events and supportability\n\n - Demonstrate strong verbal and written communication skills to influence teams/peers beyond immediate span of control.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL BRING:\n\nExperience:\n\n - Track record of delivering complex systems projects with large scope (multi quarter design and development) leading a team of engineers, setting direction for projects, working with stakeholders, adept at using AI tools for coding and working backwards from the customers.\n\n - 4+ years driving staff-level or equivalent technical initiatives across multiple teams or components.\n \n\nLeadership & Influence:\n\n - Demonstrated ability to lead through ambiguity, set direction, and align multiple teams around complex technical plans.\n\n - Track record of mentoring senior engineers and enabling others to deliver on high-risk, high-impact projects.\n\n - Clear, concise technical communication, both written (design docs, KIPs) and verbal (reviews, cross-team forums).\n\n\n\n\nWHAT GIVES YOU AN EDGE:\n\n - Prior experience as a committer/PMC or core maintainer on Apache Kafka or a similar project.\n\n\nREADY TO BUILD WHAT'S NEXT? LET’S GET IN MOTION.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCOME AS YOU ARE\n\nBelonging isn’t a perk here. It’s the baseline. We work across time zones and backgrounds, knowing the best ideas come from different perspectives. And we make space for everyone to lead, grow, and challenge what’s possible.\n\nWe’re proud to be an equal opportunity 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.\n\n\n\n\nPRIVACY STATEMENT\n\nConfluent is an IBM subsidiary which has been acquired by IBM and will be integrated into the IBM organization. By proceeding with this application, you understand that Confluent will share your personal information with other IBM affiliates involved in your recruitment process, wherever these are located. More Information on how IBM protects your personal information, including the safeguards in case of cross-border data transfer, are available here http://ibm.com/careers/us-en/privacy-policy/."},{"id":"a24f234c-08a3-4184-a357-763ce5e69454","title":"Senior Software Engineer II, Kora Compute","department":"Engineering","team":"Engineering","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"CA Remote Ontario","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-05-11T17:08:17.600+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":null,"workplaceType":null,"address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"Ontario","addressCountry":"Canada","addressLocality":"Toronto"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/confluent/a24f234c-08a3-4184-a357-763ce5e69454","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/confluent/a24f234c-08a3-4184-a357-763ce5e69454/application","descriptionHtml":"We’re not just building better tech. We’re rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real-time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them.
It takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together.
One Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.
We are a team of passionate engineers who love solving complex distributed systems and infrastructure problems. We are building Kora from the ground up to be a true managed service for clients who demand high levels of availability and performance at the lowest cost of ownership. In this role, you will be working on building highly available, reliable, secure, scalable, and multi-tenant Kora's compute layer. You will be instrumental in driving the technical solutions end-to-end, working closely with the team and key stakeholders to design, architect, and develop top-notch solutions. Here are examples of some of the challenges we've taken on in recent years:
Kora: A Cloud-Native Event Streaming Platform For Kafka
Apache Kafka's Next-Gen Rebalance Protocol: Towards More Stable and Scalable Consumer Groups
From On-Prem to Cloud-Native: Multi-Tenancy in Confluent Cloud
Speed, Scale, Storage: Our Journey from Apache Kafka to Performance in Confluent Cloud
Benchmarking Confluent Cloud
Driven and excited about challenges of delivering complex projects in production with a focus on quality
Customer focused - making customers more successful by taking on their most challenging problems motivates you
Have a strong sense of teamwork and able to make decisions which benefit the team and company
Identify root causes, and get beyond treating symptoms - motivated to dig deep and solve hard problems
BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience
4+ years of relevant cloud infrastructure/cloud networking experience
Strong 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)
A self starter with the ability to work effectively in teams
Proficiency in Java, Scala, C/C++, Go or other statically typed languages
In-depth familiarity with the JVM
A strong background in distributed storage systems or databases
Experience in the areas of resource management and QoS
Experience/knowledge with public clouds (AWS, Azure or GCP)
Interest in evangelism (giving talks at tech conferences, writing blog posts evangelizing Kafka)
Experience working on databases or data storage
Belonging isn’t a perk here. It’s the baseline. We work across time zones and backgrounds, knowing the best ideas come from different perspectives. And we make space for everyone to lead, grow, and challenge what’s possible.
We’re proud to be an equal opportunity 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.
Confluent is an IBM subsidiary which has been acquired by IBM and will be integrated into the IBM organization. By proceeding with this application, you understand that Confluent will share your personal information with other IBM affiliates involved in your recruitment process, wherever these are located. More Information on how IBM protects your personal information, including the safeguards in case of cross-border data transfer, are available here.
","descriptionPlain":"We’re not just building better tech. We’re rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real-time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them.\n\nIt takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together.\n\nOne Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.\n\n\nABOUT THE ROLE:\n\nWe are a team of passionate engineers who love solving complex distributed systems and infrastructure problems. We are building Kora from the ground up to be a true managed service for clients who demand high levels of availability and performance at the lowest cost of ownership. In this role, you will be working on building highly available, reliable, secure, scalable, and multi-tenant Kora's compute layer. You will be instrumental in driving the technical solutions end-to-end, working closely with the team and key stakeholders to design, architect, and develop top-notch solutions. Here are examples of some of the challenges we've taken on in recent years:\n\nKora: A Cloud-Native Event Streaming Platform For Kafka https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol16/p3822-povzner.pdf\nApache Kafka's Next-Gen Rebalance Protocol: Towards More Stable and Scalable Consumer Groups https://www.confluent.io/events/current/2023/apache-kafkas-next-gen-rebalance-protocol-towards-more-stable-and-scalable/\nFrom On-Prem to Cloud-Native: Multi-Tenancy in Confluent Cloud https://www.confluent.io/blog/cloud-native-multi-tenant-kafka-with-confluent-cloud/\nSpeed, Scale, Storage: Our Journey from Apache Kafka to Performance in Confluent Cloud https://www.confluent.io/blog/from-apache-kafka-to-confluent-cloud-optimizing-for-speed-scale-storage/\nBenchmarking Confluent Cloud https://assets.confluent.io/m/2d7c883a8aa6a71d/original/20200501-WP-Benchmark_Your_Dedicated_Apache_Kafka_Cluster_on_Confluent_Cloud.pdf\n\n \n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL DO:\n\n - Driven and excited about challenges of delivering complex projects in production with a focus on quality\n\n - Customer focused - making customers more successful by taking on their most challenging problems motivates you\n\n - Have a strong sense of teamwork and able to make decisions which benefit the team and company\n\n - Identify root causes, and get beyond treating symptoms - motivated to dig deep and solve hard problems\n \n \n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL BRING:\n\n - BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience\n\n - 4+ years of relevant cloud infrastructure/cloud networking experience\n\n - Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development\n\n - Experience building and operating large-scale systems in the Cloud\n\n - Solid understanding of basic systems operations (disk, network, operating systems, etc)\n\n - A self starter with the ability to work effectively in teams\n Proficiency in Java, Scala, C/C++, Go or other statically typed languages\n\n \n\n\nWHAT GIVES YOU AN EDGE:\n\n - In-depth familiarity with the JVM\n\n - A strong background in distributed storage systems or databases\n\n - Experience in the areas of resource management and QoS\n\n - Experience/knowledge with public clouds (AWS, Azure or GCP)\n\n - Interest in evangelism (giving talks at tech conferences, writing blog posts evangelizing Kafka)\n\n - Experience working on databases or data storage\n\n\nREADY TO BUILD WHAT'S NEXT? LET’S GET IN MOTION.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCOME AS YOU ARE\n\nBelonging isn’t a perk here. It’s the baseline. We work across time zones and backgrounds, knowing the best ideas come from different perspectives. And we make space for everyone to lead, grow, and challenge what’s possible.\n\nWe’re proud to be an equal opportunity 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.\n\n\n\n\nPRIVACY STATEMENT\n\nConfluent is an IBM subsidiary which has been acquired by IBM and will be integrated into the IBM organization. By proceeding with this application, you understand that Confluent will share your personal information with other IBM affiliates involved in your recruitment process, wherever these are located. More Information on how IBM protects your personal information, including the safeguards in case of cross-border data transfer, are available here http://ibm.com/careers/us-en/privacy-policy/."},{"id":"a93ac05b-0ba3-41a9-aa42-a6258c5c5584","title":"Staff Software Engineer I - Confluent Platform","department":"Engineering","team":"Engineering","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"IN Remote India","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-06-08T08:49:10.395+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":null,"workplaceType":null,"address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"Karnātaka","addressCountry":"India","addressLocality":"Bengaluru"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/confluent/a93ac05b-0ba3-41a9-aa42-a6258c5c5584","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/confluent/a93ac05b-0ba3-41a9-aa42-a6258c5c5584/application","descriptionHtml":"We’re not just building better tech. We’re rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real-time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them.
It takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together.
One Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.
The Confluent Platform (CP) team has steadily expanded its charter since its inception. As a Staff Software Engineer I, you will set the technical direction and drive significant advancements within this continually growing scope. This role sits at the intersection of platform architecture, large-scale distributed systems, and mission-critical customer operations, with influence and impact across the entire Confluent Platform organization.
A cornerstone of our strategy is the Unified Stream Manager (USM) hybrid-first offerings. We are developing platform capabilities that provide a consistent, enterprise-grade experience in management, observability, and security across on-prem, cloud, and hybrid environments. You will help architect and deliver these foundational USM capabilities, enabling customers to effortlessly operate, monitor, and secure Confluent Platform deployments across multiple clouds and regions. Your work will directly shape how enterprises run Kafka at scale amid increasingly complex regulatory and operational environments.
You will own open-ended problem spaces, explore new ideas, develop prototypes, and bring the most promising solutions into production systems that deliver real customer value. As one of the leading technologists in the Confluent Platform organization, you will help shape platform architecture, review designs and code, influence technical direction across teams, and contribute to defining the long-term vision and roadmap for the platform.
Technically lead the evolution of the Confluent Platform, with deep ownership of USM, hybrid-first management, and platform-wide operational capabilities.
Partner closely with product management, engineering leadership, and cross-org stakeholders (including Confluent Cloud) to define and execute the CP roadmap.
Act as a strong external technical voice for Confluent Platform across the company.
Champion domain health, operational hygiene, and platform reliability; raise the bar through design and code reviews.
Lead architecture and design of large, complex systems spanning distributed systems, Kubernetes, security, and observability.
Mentor and grow senior engineers and technical leads, providing hands-on guidance and career mentorship.
Represent and strengthen engineering leadership in India, setting standards for execution, communication, and engineering excellence.
Build and evolve processes that enable teams to operate at scale without sacrificing quality or velocity.
10+ years of hands-on software development experience, with a proven ability to anticipate future technical needs and execute toward them.
A strong track record of taking ideas from concept to production in complex, high-scale systems.
Willingness to roll up your sleeves—design, code, debug, and operate critical systems.
Deep experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems, including strong fundamentals in OS, networking, storage, and cloud infrastructure.
Excellent grounding in distributed systems, concurrency, and multi-threaded programming.
A proactive, self-starter mindset with strong problem-solving skills—identifying root causes and driving durable fixes.
Ability to balance short-term execution with long-term architectural integrity; ship incrementally and iterate with urgency.
Strong influence skills—able to drive technical decisions across teams and senior leadership through clear, data-driven communication.
Experience handling high-severity production issues, including on-call ownership, deep debugging, and mitigation under pressure.
BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
Experience in open-source development
Experience using Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, Apache Spark is a big plus
Interest in evangelism (giving talks at tech conferences, writing blog posts evangelizing Kafka)
Experience working on stream processing technology or query processing systems
Data processing systems in general
Belonging isn’t a perk here. It’s the baseline. We work across time zones and backgrounds, knowing the best ideas come from different perspectives. And we make space for everyone to lead, grow, and challenge what’s possible.
We’re proud to be an equal opportunity 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.
Confluent is an IBM subsidiary which has been acquired by IBM and will be integrated into the IBM organization. By proceeding with this application, you understand that Confluent will share your personal information with other IBM affiliates involved in your recruitment process, wherever these are located. More Information on how IBM protects your personal information, including the safeguards in case of cross-border data transfer, are available here.
","descriptionPlain":"We’re not just building better tech. We’re rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real-time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them.\n\nIt takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together.\n\nOne Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.\n\n\nABOUT THE ROLE:\n\nThe Confluent Platform (CP) team has steadily expanded its charter since its inception. As a Staff Software Engineer I, you will set the technical direction and drive significant advancements within this continually growing scope. This role sits at the intersection of platform architecture, large-scale distributed systems, and mission-critical customer operations, with influence and impact across the entire Confluent Platform organization.\n\nA cornerstone of our strategy is the Unified Stream Manager (USM) hybrid-first offerings. We are developing platform capabilities that provide a consistent, enterprise-grade experience in management, observability, and security across on-prem, cloud, and hybrid environments. You will help architect and deliver these foundational USM capabilities, enabling customers to effortlessly operate, monitor, and secure Confluent Platform deployments across multiple clouds and regions. Your work will directly shape how enterprises run Kafka at scale amid increasingly complex regulatory and operational environments.\n\nYou will own open-ended problem spaces, explore new ideas, develop prototypes, and bring the most promising solutions into production systems that deliver real customer value. As one of the leading technologists in the Confluent Platform organization, you will help shape platform architecture, review designs and code, influence technical direction across teams, and contribute to defining the long-term vision and roadmap for the platform.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL DO:\n\n - Technically lead the evolution of the Confluent Platform, with deep ownership of USM, hybrid-first management, and platform-wide operational capabilities.\n\n - Partner closely with product management, engineering leadership, and cross-org stakeholders (including Confluent Cloud) to define and execute the CP roadmap.\n\n - Act as a strong external technical voice for Confluent Platform across the company.\n\n - Champion domain health, operational hygiene, and platform reliability; raise the bar through design and code reviews.\n\n - Lead architecture and design of large, complex systems spanning distributed systems, Kubernetes, security, and observability.\n\n - Mentor and grow senior engineers and technical leads, providing hands-on guidance and career mentorship.\n \n Represent and strengthen engineering leadership in India, setting standards for execution, communication, and engineering excellence.\n \n Build and evolve processes that enable teams to operate at scale without sacrificing quality or velocity.\n \n \n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL BRING:\n\n - 10+ years of hands-on software development experience, with a proven ability to anticipate future technical needs and execute toward them.\n\n - A strong track record of taking ideas from concept to production in complex, high-scale systems.\n\n - Willingness to roll up your sleeves—design, code, debug, and operate critical systems.\n\n - Deep experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems, including strong fundamentals in OS, networking, storage, and cloud infrastructure.\n\n - Excellent grounding in distributed systems, concurrency, and multi-threaded programming.\n\n - A proactive, self-starter mindset with strong problem-solving skills—identifying root causes and driving durable fixes.\n\n - Ability to balance short-term execution with long-term architectural integrity; ship incrementally and iterate with urgency.\n\n - Strong influence skills—able to drive technical decisions across teams and senior leadership through clear, data-driven communication.\n\n - Experience handling high-severity production issues, including on-call ownership, deep debugging, and mitigation under pressure.\n \n BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.\n \n \n\n\nWHAT GIVES YOU AN EDGE:\n\n - Experience in open-source development\n\n - Experience using Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, Apache Spark is a big plus\n\n - Interest in evangelism (giving talks at tech conferences, writing blog posts evangelizing Kafka)\n\n - Experience working on stream processing technology or query processing systems\n\n - Data processing systems in general\n \n \n\n\nREADY TO BUILD WHAT'S NEXT? LET’S GET IN MOTION.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCOME AS YOU ARE\n\nBelonging isn’t a perk here. It’s the baseline. We work across time zones and backgrounds, knowing the best ideas come from different perspectives. And we make space for everyone to lead, grow, and challenge what’s possible.\n\nWe’re proud to be an equal opportunity 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.\n\n\n\n\nPRIVACY STATEMENT\n\nConfluent is an IBM subsidiary which has been acquired by IBM and will be integrated into the IBM organization. By proceeding with this application, you understand that Confluent will share your personal information with other IBM affiliates involved in your recruitment process, wherever these are located. More Information on how IBM protects your personal information, including the safeguards in case of cross-border data transfer, are available here http://ibm.com/careers/us-en/privacy-policy/."},{"id":"bef7f6a5-2481-4eb6-a760-86e3746600bb","title":"Staff Software Engineer I","department":"Engineering","team":"Engineering","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"*Job Posting Only: USA1","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-06-23T22:49:02.533+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Remote","address":null,"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/confluent/bef7f6a5-2481-4eb6-a760-86e3746600bb","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/confluent/bef7f6a5-2481-4eb6-a760-86e3746600bb/application","descriptionHtml":"We’re not just building better tech. We’re rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real-time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them.
It takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together.
One Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.
About the Role:
We are a team of passionate engineers who love solving complex distributed storage systems and infrastructure problems. Through the Tableflow project, we are building the next generation of storage solutions for Kora, transforming it into a true multi-modal storage engine. Our goal is to enable streaming data to be consumed both as a table and as a stream seamlessly. If you're interested in learning more about the challenges we are tackling, check out our blog post: Tableflow: The Stream/Table, Kafka/Iceberg Duality.
As a Staff Software Engineer I on the team, you will focus on advancing key layers of the Tableflow project, including its multi-tenant, highly available compute infrastructure, and the core components responsible for table materialization and background maintenance. You will tackle challenges such as developing strategies for efficient table materialization and maintenance at massive scale across all of Confluent Cloud, ensuring high availability and scalability for background storage tasks.
What You Will Do:
Storage Engine Development: Design and implement innovative strategies for table schematization, materialization, and compaction at massive scale.
Platform Engineering: Build and maintain multi-tenant, highly available infrastructure that powers background computational tasks for Kora’s long-term storage. Ensure that the platform is optimized for scalability, reliability, and resilience, in alignment with organizational objectives.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate with product management, design, and other engineering teams to ensure seamless integration of storage features and infrastructure with the broader organization.
What You Will Bring:
BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience
Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence and guide stakeholders at all levels.
What Gives You an Edge:
Familiarity with or has experience contributing to the following open-source technologies: Apache Kafka, Apache Iceberg, Apache Flink
Experience/knowledge with public clouds (AWS, Azure or GCP)
Belonging isn’t a perk here. It’s the baseline. We work across time zones and backgrounds, knowing the best ideas come from different perspectives. And we make space for everyone to lead, grow, and challenge what’s possible.
We’re proud to be an equal opportunity 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.
Confluent is an IBM subsidiary which has been acquired by IBM and will be integrated into the IBM organization. By proceeding with this application, you understand that Confluent will share your personal information with other IBM affiliates involved in your recruitment process, wherever these are located. More Information on how IBM protects your personal information, including the safeguards in case of cross-border data transfer, are available here.
","descriptionPlain":"We’re not just building better tech. We’re rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real-time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them.\n\nIt takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together.\n\nOne Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.\n\n\n\nAbout the Role:\n\nWe are a team of passionate engineers who love solving complex distributed storage systems and infrastructure problems. Through the Tableflow project, we are building the next generation of storage solutions for Kora, transforming it into a true multi-modal storage engine. Our goal is to enable streaming data to be consumed both as a table and as a stream seamlessly. If you're interested in learning more about the challenges we are tackling, check out our blog post: Tableflow: The Stream/Table, Kafka/Iceberg Duality.\n\nAs a Staff Software Engineer I on the team, you will focus on advancing key layers of the Tableflow project, including its multi-tenant, highly available compute infrastructure, and the core components responsible for table materialization and background maintenance. You will tackle challenges such as developing strategies for efficient table materialization and maintenance at massive scale across all of Confluent Cloud, ensuring high availability and scalability for background storage tasks.\n\n\n\nWhat You Will Do:\n\nStorage Engine Development: Design and implement innovative strategies for table schematization, materialization, and compaction at massive scale.\n\nPlatform Engineering: Build and maintain multi-tenant, highly available infrastructure that powers background computational tasks for Kora’s long-term storage. Ensure that the platform is optimized for scalability, reliability, and resilience, in alignment with organizational objectives.\n\nCross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate with product management, design, and other engineering teams to ensure seamless integration of storage features and infrastructure with the broader organization.\n\n\n\nWhat You Will Bring:\n\n - BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience\n\n - Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence and guide stakeholders at all levels.\n\n - What Gives You an Edge:\n\n - Familiarity with or has experience contributing to the following open-source technologies: Apache Kafka, Apache Iceberg, Apache Flink\n\n - Experience/knowledge with public clouds (AWS, Azure or GCP)\n\n\nREADY TO BUILD WHAT'S NEXT? LET’S GET IN MOTION.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCOME AS YOU ARE\n\nBelonging isn’t a perk here. It’s the baseline. We work across time zones and backgrounds, knowing the best ideas come from different perspectives. And we make space for everyone to lead, grow, and challenge what’s possible.\n\nWe’re proud to be an equal opportunity 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.\n\n\n\n\nPRIVACY STATEMENT\n\nConfluent is an IBM subsidiary which has been acquired by IBM and will be integrated into the IBM organization. By proceeding with this application, you understand that Confluent will share your personal information with other IBM affiliates involved in your recruitment process, wherever these are located. More Information on how IBM protects your personal information, including the safeguards in case of cross-border data transfer, are available here http://ibm.com/careers/us-en/privacy-policy/."},{"id":"c3f71f01-1b97-4356-92ea-b6c6aa294f46","title":"Director Engineering, Traffic & Networking","department":"Engineering","team":"Engineering","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Remote, United States","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-05-11T21:48:06.294+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Remote","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"United States"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/confluent/c3f71f01-1b97-4356-92ea-b6c6aa294f46","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/confluent/c3f71f01-1b97-4356-92ea-b6c6aa294f46/application","descriptionHtml":"We’re not just building better tech. We’re rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real-time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them.
It takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together.
One Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.
The Traffic & Networking organization is responsible for engineering the foundational fabric that facilitates the movement of vast data volumes between customer sources and our data streaming platform. Our infrastructure ensures secure, private, and high-performance connectivity across AWS, Azure, and GCP with minimal latency and optimized costs. By bridging all three major hyper-scalers, we empower streaming application teams to develop a globally distributed, real-time platform capable of processing and replicating data across nearly any geographic region.
In the role of Engineering Director for Traffic & Networking, you will lead the Traffic Control-Plane team in managing a highly resilient, multi-cloud network orchestration layer. Serving as the central intelligence of our global fabric, the control-plane governs the entire lifecycle of the traffic data-plane and provides customers with networking APIs for seamless integration with Confluent Cloud. Additionally, it offers a programmable interface for our developers, simplifying the creation of multi-cloud applications by abstracting the complexities of cross-cloud and cross-region connectivity.
Manage a globally distributed team that is responsible for the programmable interface of our networking fabric.
Act as a technical lead for the team driving vision, roadmap, and execution on various projects.
Mentor managers as well as ICs, helping them become domain experts in various technologies and products that build our networking fabric as well as enable our customer’s data streaming use-cases.
Drive cross-team projects, across various product pillars, that have company wide impact in delivering innovative capabilities on our platform and that build differentiation and bring value to our real time streaming customers.
10+ years of experience leading relatively large (12 or greater) highly technical teams.
Deep technical understanding of cloud infrastructure. Especially Kubernetes, cloud networking.
A background in developing and leading teams that specialize in building high scalable distributed cloud native applications.
Experience building SaaS products and platforms
Understanding cloud networking, especially as a user of cloud infrastructure across the three hyper scalers.
Experience running cloud hosted services, especially enterprise applications
A background in real time streaming infrastructure and data processing infrastructure
A Masters/PhD in Computer Science or a related field
Belonging isn’t a perk here. It’s the baseline. We work across time zones and backgrounds, knowing the best ideas come from different perspectives. And we make space for everyone to lead, grow, and challenge what’s possible.
We’re proud to be an equal opportunity 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.
Confluent is an IBM subsidiary which has been acquired by IBM and will be integrated into the IBM organization. By proceeding with this application, you understand that Confluent will share your personal information with other IBM affiliates involved in your recruitment process, wherever these are located. More Information on how IBM protects your personal information, including the safeguards in case of cross-border data transfer, are available here.
","descriptionPlain":"We’re not just building better tech. We’re rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real-time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them.\n\nIt takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together.\n\nOne Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.\n\n\nABOUT THE ROLE:\n\nThe Traffic & Networking organization is responsible for engineering the foundational fabric that facilitates the movement of vast data volumes between customer sources and our data streaming platform. Our infrastructure ensures secure, private, and high-performance connectivity across AWS, Azure, and GCP with minimal latency and optimized costs. By bridging all three major hyper-scalers, we empower streaming application teams to develop a globally distributed, real-time platform capable of processing and replicating data across nearly any geographic region.\n\nIn the role of Engineering Director for Traffic & Networking, you will lead the Traffic Control-Plane team in managing a highly resilient, multi-cloud network orchestration layer. Serving as the central intelligence of our global fabric, the control-plane governs the entire lifecycle of the traffic data-plane and provides customers with networking APIs for seamless integration with Confluent Cloud. Additionally, it offers a programmable interface for our developers, simplifying the creation of multi-cloud applications by abstracting the complexities of cross-cloud and cross-region connectivity.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL DO:\n\n - Manage a globally distributed team that is responsible for the programmable interface of our networking fabric.\n\n - Act as a technical lead for the team driving vision, roadmap, and execution on various projects.\n\n - Mentor managers as well as ICs, helping them become domain experts in various technologies and products that build our networking fabric as well as enable our customer’s data streaming use-cases.\n\n - Drive cross-team projects, across various product pillars, that have company wide impact in delivering innovative capabilities on our platform and that build differentiation and bring value to our real time streaming customers.\n \n \n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL BRING:\n\n - 10+ years of experience leading relatively large (12 or greater) highly technical teams.\n\n - Deep technical understanding of cloud infrastructure. Especially Kubernetes, cloud networking.\n\n - A background in developing and leading teams that specialize in building high scalable distributed cloud native applications.\n\n - Experience building SaaS products and platforms\n\n\n\n\nWHAT GIVES YOU AN EDGE:\n\n - Understanding cloud networking, especially as a user of cloud infrastructure across the three hyper scalers.\n\n - Experience running cloud hosted services, especially enterprise applications\n\n - A background in real time streaming infrastructure and data processing infrastructure\n\n - A Masters/PhD in Computer Science or a related field\n\n\nREADY TO BUILD WHAT'S NEXT? LET’S GET IN MOTION.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCOME AS YOU ARE\n\nBelonging isn’t a perk here. It’s the baseline. We work across time zones and backgrounds, knowing the best ideas come from different perspectives. And we make space for everyone to lead, grow, and challenge what’s possible.\n\nWe’re proud to be an equal opportunity 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.\n\n\n\n\nPRIVACY STATEMENT\n\nConfluent is an IBM subsidiary which has been acquired by IBM and will be integrated into the IBM organization. By proceeding with this application, you understand that Confluent will share your personal information with other IBM affiliates involved in your recruitment process, wherever these are located. More Information on how IBM protects your personal information, including the safeguards in case of cross-border data transfer, are available here http://ibm.com/careers/us-en/privacy-policy/."},{"id":"cae2a5bc-1efa-4fff-a704-357e1b9f2ebd","title":"Senior Software Engineer II ","department":"Engineering","team":"Engineering","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"New York, New York","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-05-20T15:18:20.785+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Remote","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"New York","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"New York"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/confluent/cae2a5bc-1efa-4fff-a704-357e1b9f2ebd","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/confluent/cae2a5bc-1efa-4fff-a704-357e1b9f2ebd/application","descriptionHtml":"We’re not just building better tech. We’re rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. 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It takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together.
One Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.
As a Senior Software Engineer II at Confluent, you will take ownership of critical backend systems in Stream Governance products that underpin our data streaming platform. You’ll lead the design and delivery of large-scale, distributed services that must be secure, highly available, and easy to operate across regions and clouds.
The Stream Governance product portfolio is crucial to achieving Confluent’s mission to put event streaming at the heart of every organization. Our mission is to provide a robust, cloud-native platform that ensures data quality and integrity by standardizing structure and enforcing intelligent rules across every stream. You will be responsible for delivering critical functionalities like Confluent Schema Registry, Data Contracts, and Policies.
In this role, you will collaborate closely with the team and key stakeholders to design, architect, and develop cloud-native, multi-tenant services for Stream Governance. You will be responsible for guiding the vision, providing technical leadership, mentoring, and enabling a high-performing engineering team to tackle complex distributed data challenges at scale.
You’ll act as a technical leader: setting direction for projects, making architecture decisions, mentoring engineers, and partnering with cross-functional stakeholders to ship high-impact work.
Develop and architect the cloud-native Stream Governance platform - a multi-tenant, highly available, and scalable service for Kafka and real-time data.
Own and lead the end-to-end design and implementation of complex backend services within a cloud-native, microservices-based environment.
Drive projects from requirements and design through implementation, rollout, and ongoing operation in production.
Make architecture and technical decisions that thoughtfully balance reliability, scalability, performance, and operability.
Solve complicated technical projects with high quality, provide specialized technical guidance to the team, and mentor/support other engineers through code reviews and design reviews.
Evaluate and enhance the efficiency of our platform's technology stack, ensuring we keep pace with industry trends and adopt state-of-the-art solutions.
Take responsibility for developing, managing, and maintaining a mission-critical service with a 99.99 SLA running across 100+ AWS, GCP, and Azure regions.
Partner across engineering and with other key stakeholders to create and execute the overall roadmap for delivering a top-notch Data Streaming Platform.
Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement, inclusive collaboration, and high technical standards.
7+ years of industry experience designing, building, scaling, and operating backend systems in production.
Deep proficiency in at least one major backend programming language (e.g., Java, Go, C/C++, or Python) and strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and system design.
Hands-on experience with distributed systems, such as event-driven architectures, high-throughput services, or large-scale data pipelines. A strong understanding of consistency, fault tolerance, and performance tradeoffs.
Strong experience running production services in a public cloud (AWS, GCP, or Azure), including containerized workloads (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
Expertise in cloud-native technology, including networking & security, and experience being part of an on-call rotation.
Proven experience in leading and mentoring technical teams.
A track record of technical leadership: driving projects, influencing architecture, and coordinating work across multiple engineers or teams.
Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to align stakeholders, explain complex ideas clearly, and drive decisions.
BS, MS, or PhD in computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
Experience building or operating mission-critical, multi-tenant, or multi-region services with strict availability and latency requirements.
Familiarity with data streaming technologies such as Apache Kafka, Flink, or similar systems.
Demonstrated impact beyond your immediate team, such as driving cross-org initiatives or technical vision.
Contributions to open source, technical writing, or speaking that showcase technical depth.
Belonging isn’t a perk here. It’s the baseline. We work across time zones and backgrounds, knowing the best ideas come from different perspectives. And we make space for everyone to lead, grow, and challenge what’s possible.
We’re proud to be an equal opportunity 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.
Confluent is an IBM subsidiary which has been acquired by IBM and will be integrated into the IBM organization. By proceeding with this application, you understand that Confluent will share your personal information with other IBM affiliates involved in your recruitment process, wherever these are located. More Information on how IBM protects your personal information, including the safeguards in case of cross-border data transfer, are available here.
","descriptionPlain":"We’re not just building better tech. We’re rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real-time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them.\n\nIt takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together.\n\nOne Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.\n\n\nABOUT THE ROLE:\n\nAs a Senior Software Engineer II at Confluent, you will take ownership of critical backend systems in Stream Governance products that underpin our data streaming platform. You’ll lead the design and delivery of large-scale, distributed services that must be secure, highly available, and easy to operate across regions and clouds.\n\n\nThe Stream Governance product portfolio is crucial to achieving Confluent’s mission to put event streaming at the heart of every organization. Our mission is to provide a robust, cloud-native platform that ensures data quality and integrity by standardizing structure and enforcing intelligent rules across every stream. You will be responsible for delivering critical functionalities like Confluent Schema Registry, Data Contracts, and Policies.\n\n \n\nIn this role, you will collaborate closely with the team and key stakeholders to design, architect, and develop cloud-native, multi-tenant services for Stream Governance. You will be responsible for guiding the vision, providing technical leadership, mentoring, and enabling a high-performing engineering team to tackle complex distributed data challenges at scale.\n\nYou’ll act as a technical leader: setting direction for projects, making architecture decisions, mentoring engineers, and partnering with cross-functional stakeholders to ship high-impact work.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL DO:\n\n - Develop and architect the cloud-native Stream Governance platform - a multi-tenant, highly available, and scalable service for Kafka and real-time data.\n\n - Own and lead the end-to-end design and implementation of complex backend services within a cloud-native, microservices-based environment.\n\n - Drive projects from requirements and design through implementation, rollout, and ongoing operation in production.\n\n - Make architecture and technical decisions that thoughtfully balance reliability, scalability, performance, and operability.\n\n - Solve complicated technical projects with high quality, provide specialized technical guidance to the team, and mentor/support other engineers through code reviews and design reviews.\n\n - Evaluate and enhance the efficiency of our platform's technology stack, ensuring we keep pace with industry trends and adopt state-of-the-art solutions.\n\n - Take responsibility for developing, managing, and maintaining a mission-critical service with a 99.99 SLA running across 100+ AWS, GCP, and Azure regions.\n\n - Partner across engineering and with other key stakeholders to create and execute the overall roadmap for delivering a top-notch Data Streaming Platform.\n\n - Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement, inclusive collaboration, and high technical standards.\n \n \n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL BRING:\n\n - 7+ years of industry experience designing, building, scaling, and operating backend systems in production.\n\n - Deep proficiency in at least one major backend programming language (e.g., Java, Go, C/C++, or Python) and strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and system design.\n\n - Hands-on experience with distributed systems, such as event-driven architectures, high-throughput services, or large-scale data pipelines. A strong understanding of consistency, fault tolerance, and performance tradeoffs.\n\n - Strong experience running production services in a public cloud (AWS, GCP, or Azure), including containerized workloads (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).\n\n - Expertise in cloud-native technology, including networking & security, and experience being part of an on-call rotation.\n\n - Proven experience in leading and mentoring technical teams.\n\n - A track record of technical leadership: driving projects, influencing architecture, and coordinating work across multiple engineers or teams.\n\n - Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to align stakeholders, explain complex ideas clearly, and drive decisions.\n\n - BS, MS, or PhD in computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience\n\n\n\n\nWHAT GIVES YOU AN EDGE:\n\n - Experience building or operating mission-critical, multi-tenant, or multi-region services with strict availability and latency requirements.\n\n - Familiarity with data streaming technologies such as Apache Kafka, Flink, or similar systems.\n\n - Demonstrated impact beyond your immediate team, such as driving cross-org initiatives or technical vision.\n\n - Contributions to open source, technical writing, or speaking that showcase technical depth.\n\n\nREADY TO BUILD WHAT'S NEXT? LET’S GET IN MOTION.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCOME AS YOU ARE\n\nBelonging isn’t a perk here. It’s the baseline. We work across time zones and backgrounds, knowing the best ideas come from different perspectives. And we make space for everyone to lead, grow, and challenge what’s possible.\n\nWe’re proud to be an equal opportunity 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.\n\n\n\n\nPRIVACY STATEMENT\n\nConfluent is an IBM subsidiary which has been acquired by IBM and will be integrated into the IBM organization. By proceeding with this application, you understand that Confluent will share your personal information with other IBM affiliates involved in your recruitment process, wherever these are located. More Information on how IBM protects your personal information, including the safeguards in case of cross-border data transfer, are available here http://ibm.com/careers/us-en/privacy-policy/."},{"id":"dc52dfa1-1649-442c-9344-609b8f01ed4b","title":"Senior Product Manager, Cloud Networking","department":"Product","team":"Product","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Remote, United States","secondaryLocations":[{"location":"Remote, California","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States"}}}],"publishedAt":"2026-04-17T19:59:47.905+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Remote","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"United States"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/confluent/dc52dfa1-1649-442c-9344-609b8f01ed4b","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/confluent/dc52dfa1-1649-442c-9344-609b8f01ed4b/application","descriptionHtml":"We’re not just building better tech. We’re rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real-time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them.
It takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together.
One Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.
Confluent Cloud delivers a complete end-to-end streaming experience via a Software as a Service (SaaS) model. To deliver a simple, understandable, and scalable product experience requires abstracting the complex interactions of underlying cloud infrastructure, networking, storage, and compute powering a stateful distributed system.
As a Senior Product Manager on the Cloud Networking Product team, you’ll contribute to the mission of making connectivity to and from Confluent Cloud reliable, scalable, secure, cost efficient and simple to use so that users can focus on building streaming applications instead of managing infrastructure. Cloud networking with focus on private networking is an enabler for all services offered on Confluent Cloud and is a strategic investment area for Confluent with the potential to impact the company’s top and bottom lines.
You’ll be responsible for the success of major product initiatives, from initial conception to execution and launch. You’ll become the trusted resource for your product, making sure that the engineering, design, sales, and marketing have what they need to make the right tradeoffs, build the right product, and grow it successfully in the market.
Understand our users: Conduct interviews and analyze data to define personas, user journeys, and key jobs to be done.
Drive crucial aspects of Confluent Cloud Network Roadmap supporting Confluent Cloud services like Kafka, Flink, Connectors, Data Governance, etc with a heavy focus on user experience and cost efficiency.
Define flexible interfaces powering API, CLI and Terraform, data models, and processes and launch a variety of new network options and rapidly iterate on existing ones
Be responsible for the whole lifecycle: Drive multi-team, cross-functional initiatives from conception through initial delivery and ongoing iteration after launch.
Close the loop: Define quantitative and qualitative targets, measure performance against them, share results with stakeholders, and incorporate those learnings into the product.
Manage complexity: Deliver value while handling the surprises and challenges of a quickly evolving product, ambitious partnership targets, and a rapidly growing organization.
5+ years of experience as a Product Manager with focus on cloud technologies.
Experience building and supporting enterprise-grade products as a product manager, engineer or solutions architect.
Experience building, writing, maintaining and defending a clear product roadmap and backlog backed by user stories and customer research.
Excellent analytical, communication & collaboration skills.
Ability to build relationships with co-workers and customers located around the world.
Demonstrated ability to drive business outcomes through product changes.
6+ years of experience in Networking in a PM or technical role
Experience with enabling AWS/Azure/GCP private networking features such as Private Link, VPC Peering, Transit Gateway, etc for a SaaS product.
Experience with Envoy, Service Mesh, DNS and Kubernetes Networking.
Experience with network traffic metering and billing.
Domain expertise in networking technologies combined with Product Management experience. An MBA degree is a plus.
Belonging isn’t a perk here. It’s the baseline. We work across time zones and backgrounds, knowing the best ideas come from different perspectives. And we make space for everyone to lead, grow, and challenge what’s possible.
We’re proud to be an equal opportunity 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.
Confluent is an IBM subsidiary which has been acquired by IBM and will be integrated into the IBM organization. By proceeding with this application, you understand that Confluent will share your personal information with other IBM affiliates involved in your recruitment process, wherever these are located. More Information on how IBM protects your personal information, including the safeguards in case of cross-border data transfer, are available here.
","descriptionPlain":"We’re not just building better tech. We’re rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real-time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them.\n\nIt takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together.\n\nOne Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.\n\n\nABOUT THE ROLE:\n\nConfluent Cloud delivers a complete end-to-end streaming experience via a Software as a Service (SaaS) model. To deliver a simple, understandable, and scalable product experience requires abstracting the complex interactions of underlying cloud infrastructure, networking, storage, and compute powering a stateful distributed system.\n\nAs a Senior Product Manager on the Cloud Networking Product team, you’ll contribute to the mission of making connectivity to and from Confluent Cloud reliable, scalable, secure, cost efficient and simple to use so that users can focus on building streaming applications instead of managing infrastructure. Cloud networking with focus on private networking is an enabler for all services offered on Confluent Cloud and is a strategic investment area for Confluent with the potential to impact the company’s top and bottom lines.\n\nYou’ll be responsible for the success of major product initiatives, from initial conception to execution and launch. You’ll become the trusted resource for your product, making sure that the engineering, design, sales, and marketing have what they need to make the right tradeoffs, build the right product, and grow it successfully in the market.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL DO:\n\n - Understand our users: Conduct interviews and analyze data to define personas, user journeys, and key jobs to be done.\n\n - Drive crucial aspects of Confluent Cloud Network Roadmap supporting Confluent Cloud services like Kafka, Flink, Connectors, Data Governance, etc with a heavy focus on user experience and cost efficiency.\n\n - Define flexible interfaces powering API, CLI and Terraform, data models, and processes and launch a variety of new network options and rapidly iterate on existing ones\n\n - Be responsible for the whole lifecycle: Drive multi-team, cross-functional initiatives from conception through initial delivery and ongoing iteration after launch.\n\n - Close the loop: Define quantitative and qualitative targets, measure performance against them, share results with stakeholders, and incorporate those learnings into the product.\n\n - Manage complexity: Deliver value while handling the surprises and challenges of a quickly evolving product, ambitious partnership targets, and a rapidly growing organization.\n \n \n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL BRING:\n\n - 5+ years of experience as a Product Manager with focus on cloud technologies.\n\n - Experience building and supporting enterprise-grade products as a product manager, engineer or solutions architect.\n\n - Experience building, writing, maintaining and defending a clear product roadmap and backlog backed by user stories and customer research.\n\n - Excellent analytical, communication & collaboration skills.\n\n - Ability to build relationships with co-workers and customers located around the world.\n\n - Demonstrated ability to drive business outcomes through product changes.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT GIVES YOU AN EDGE:\n\n - 6+ years of experience in Networking in a PM or technical role\n\n - Experience with enabling AWS/Azure/GCP private networking features such as Private Link, VPC Peering, Transit Gateway, etc for a SaaS product.\n\n - Experience with Envoy, Service Mesh, DNS and Kubernetes Networking.\n\n - Experience with network traffic metering and billing.\n\n - Domain expertise in networking technologies combined with Product Management experience. An MBA degree is a plus.\n\n\nREADY TO BUILD WHAT'S NEXT? LET’S GET IN MOTION.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCOME AS YOU ARE\n\nBelonging isn’t a perk here. It’s the baseline. We work across time zones and backgrounds, knowing the best ideas come from different perspectives. And we make space for everyone to lead, grow, and challenge what’s possible.\n\nWe’re proud to be an equal opportunity 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.\n\n\n\n\nPRIVACY STATEMENT\n\nConfluent is an IBM subsidiary which has been acquired by IBM and will be integrated into the IBM organization. By proceeding with this application, you understand that Confluent will share your personal information with other IBM affiliates involved in your recruitment process, wherever these are located. More Information on how IBM protects your personal information, including the safeguards in case of cross-border data transfer, are available here http://ibm.com/careers/us-en/privacy-policy/."},{"id":"ded86e3c-8dbe-498b-861c-1fe5dfcd1ce3","title":"Head of Product Led Growth Marketing ","department":"Product","team":"Product","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Remote, United States","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-04-07T16:44:46.628+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Remote","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"United States"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/confluent/ded86e3c-8dbe-498b-861c-1fe5dfcd1ce3","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/confluent/ded86e3c-8dbe-498b-861c-1fe5dfcd1ce3/application","descriptionHtml":"We’re not just building better tech. We’re rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. 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It takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together.
One Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.
As the Head of Product Led Growth Marketing, you will lead a team that defines and optimizes Confluent’s product-led growth strategy from acquisition through high-value customer conversion.
You and your team will collaborate across Product, Marketing, Sales, Data Science, and Engineering to optimize signup quality, strengthen funnel conversion, and maximize downstream revenue impact. Your work will include building measurement frameworks, leading experimentation agendas, optimizing digital acquisition channels, including emerging discovery levers such as answer engine optimization (AEO), and translating performance insights into clear investment decisions. You will also design and refine the product-to-sales handoff, ensuring product signals translate into effective sales engagement. This role is critical to scaling product-led acquisition and demonstrating PLG as a durable, efficient growth lever for Confluent.
Drive growth strategy and optimization: Define and optimize PLG growth strategy across the full funnel—from acquisition through high-value conversion—balancing efficiency, quality, and scale across channels, programs, and experiments in collaboration with Product, Marketing, Sales, and Data Science teams.
Lead and scale a high-performing growth team: Recruit, mentor, and manage a multidisciplinary team of growth marketers and analysts; foster a culture of high-velocity experimentation, accountability, and continuous learning while aligning individual development with Confluent’s strategic goals.
Optimize digital marketing and channel performance: Evaluate paid marketing, organic, and product-led acquisition channels; translate performance insights into investment decisions; test and scale high-performing programs across both traditional and emerging discovery channels, including answer engine optimization (AEO).
Build measurement frameworks and experimentation rigor: Establish metrics, models, and analytical frameworks that assess channel quality, funnel health, cohort behavior, and early indicators of long-term customer value; lead a disciplined testing agenda to accelerate learning and improve conversion.
Strengthen product-led sales motion and GTM alignment: Design and optimize the handoff from product-led users to sales-assisted conversion; partner with Sales and Product on GTM strategy, qualification, routing, and feedback loops; ensure alignment across product launches, marketing campaigns, activation flows, and nurture journeys.
Evolve PLG for AI and agentic workflows: Partner with Product and Engineering to integrate AI-driven evaluation/personalization, agent-based customer interactions, and intelligent automation into growth workflows—positioning Confluent's PLG motion to capitalize on emerging AI use cases and developer behavior shifts.
8+ years in product management, growth marketing, growth strategy, or growth analytics with a focus on product-led growth, funnel optimization, experimentation, and revenue impact; 2+ years in a leadership role managing high-performing teams.
Deep understanding of growth marketing and PLG best practices—including acquisition strategy, digital and paid marketing, funnel analysis, lifecycle optimization, experimentation design, and best-in-class PLG tooling and workflows (e.g., product analytics platforms, reverse ETL, activation tools, attribution and experimentation frameworks).
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with strategic thinking ability; experience diagnosing complex funnel issues and translating analysis into clear decisions. SQL required, with experience in Hex, Tableau, Amplitude, BigQuery, or similar platforms preferred.
Experience in enterprise software or SaaS, with proven ability to collaborate across Product, Marketing, Sales, Finance, and Data Science; excellent communication skills for both technical and executive audiences.
Strong ownership mindset with the ability to move solutions forward in ambiguous, fast-moving environments; proven track record leading and mentoring teams to deliver exceptional results.
Experience in developer tools, cloud/data infrastructure, usage-based business models, or other technical, developer-led product domains.
Familiarity with AI-driven growth strategies, agentic workflows, or integrating LLMs and intelligent automation into marketing and product-led motions.
Track record designing and scaling product-to-sales handoff strategies, lead qualification models, or hybrid PLG-sales conversion funnels in high-growth B2B SaaS environments.
Deep expertise in advanced experimentation methodologies and building rigorous measurement frameworks for attribution, incrementality, and lifetime value prediction.
Belonging isn’t a perk here. It’s the baseline. We work across time zones and backgrounds, knowing the best ideas come from different perspectives. And we make space for everyone to lead, grow, and challenge what’s possible.
We’re proud to be an equal opportunity 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.
Confluent is an IBM subsidiary which has been acquired by IBM and will be integrated into the IBM organization. By proceeding with this application, you understand that Confluent will share your personal information with other IBM affiliates involved in your recruitment process, wherever these are located. More Information on how IBM protects your personal information, including the safeguards in case of cross-border data transfer, are available here.
","descriptionPlain":"We’re not just building better tech. We’re rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real-time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them.\n\nIt takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together.\n\nOne Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.\n\n\nABOUT THE ROLE:\n\nAs the Head of Product Led Growth Marketing, you will lead a team that defines and optimizes Confluent’s product-led growth strategy from acquisition through high-value customer conversion.\n\nYou and your team will collaborate across Product, Marketing, Sales, Data Science, and Engineering to optimize signup quality, strengthen funnel conversion, and maximize downstream revenue impact. Your work will include building measurement frameworks, leading experimentation agendas, optimizing digital acquisition channels, including emerging discovery levers such as answer engine optimization (AEO), and translating performance insights into clear investment decisions. You will also design and refine the product-to-sales handoff, ensuring product signals translate into effective sales engagement. This role is critical to scaling product-led acquisition and demonstrating PLG as a durable, efficient growth lever for Confluent.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL DO:\n\n - Drive growth strategy and optimization: Define and optimize PLG growth strategy across the full funnel—from acquisition through high-value conversion—balancing efficiency, quality, and scale across channels, programs, and experiments in collaboration with Product, Marketing, Sales, and Data Science teams.\n\n - Lead and scale a high-performing growth team: Recruit, mentor, and manage a multidisciplinary team of growth marketers and analysts; foster a culture of high-velocity experimentation, accountability, and continuous learning while aligning individual development with Confluent’s strategic goals.\n\n - Optimize digital marketing and channel performance: Evaluate paid marketing, organic, and product-led acquisition channels; translate performance insights into investment decisions; test and scale high-performing programs across both traditional and emerging discovery channels, including answer engine optimization (AEO).\n\n - Build measurement frameworks and experimentation rigor: Establish metrics, models, and analytical frameworks that assess channel quality, funnel health, cohort behavior, and early indicators of long-term customer value; lead a disciplined testing agenda to accelerate learning and improve conversion.\n\n - Strengthen product-led sales motion and GTM alignment: Design and optimize the handoff from product-led users to sales-assisted conversion; partner with Sales and Product on GTM strategy, qualification, routing, and feedback loops; ensure alignment across product launches, marketing campaigns, activation flows, and nurture journeys.\n\n - Evolve PLG for AI and agentic workflows: Partner with Product and Engineering to integrate AI-driven evaluation/personalization, agent-based customer interactions, and intelligent automation into growth workflows—positioning Confluent's PLG motion to capitalize on emerging AI use cases and developer behavior shifts.\n \n \n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL BRING:\n\n - 8+ years in product management, growth marketing, growth strategy, or growth analytics with a focus on product-led growth, funnel optimization, experimentation, and revenue impact; 2+ years in a leadership role managing high-performing teams.\n\n - Deep understanding of growth marketing and PLG best practices—including acquisition strategy, digital and paid marketing, funnel analysis, lifecycle optimization, experimentation design, and best-in-class PLG tooling and workflows (e.g., product analytics platforms, reverse ETL, activation tools, attribution and experimentation frameworks).\n\n - Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with strategic thinking ability; experience diagnosing complex funnel issues and translating analysis into clear decisions. SQL required, with experience in Hex, Tableau, Amplitude, BigQuery, or similar platforms preferred.\n\n - Experience in enterprise software or SaaS, with proven ability to collaborate across Product, Marketing, Sales, Finance, and Data Science; excellent communication skills for both technical and executive audiences.\n\n - Strong ownership mindset with the ability to move solutions forward in ambiguous, fast-moving environments; proven track record leading and mentoring teams to deliver exceptional results.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT GIVES YOU AN EDGE:\n\n - Experience in developer tools, cloud/data infrastructure, usage-based business models, or other technical, developer-led product domains.\n\n - Familiarity with AI-driven growth strategies, agentic workflows, or integrating LLMs and intelligent automation into marketing and product-led motions.\n\n - Track record designing and scaling product-to-sales handoff strategies, lead qualification models, or hybrid PLG-sales conversion funnels in high-growth B2B SaaS environments.\n\n - Deep expertise in advanced experimentation methodologies and building rigorous measurement frameworks for attribution, incrementality, and lifetime value prediction.\n\n\nREADY TO BUILD WHAT'S NEXT? LET’S GET IN MOTION.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCOME AS YOU ARE\n\nBelonging isn’t a perk here. It’s the baseline. We work across time zones and backgrounds, knowing the best ideas come from different perspectives. And we make space for everyone to lead, grow, and challenge what’s possible.\n\nWe’re proud to be an equal opportunity 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.\n\n\n\n\nPRIVACY STATEMENT\n\nConfluent is an IBM subsidiary which has been acquired by IBM and will be integrated into the IBM organization. By proceeding with this application, you understand that Confluent will share your personal information with other IBM affiliates involved in your recruitment process, wherever these are located. More Information on how IBM protects your personal information, including the safeguards in case of cross-border data transfer, are available here http://ibm.com/careers/us-en/privacy-policy/."},{"id":"e70deb8a-3308-49dd-b9c7-b537333c5645","title":"Staff Product Manager, Cloud Networking ","department":"Product","team":"Product","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Remote, United States","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-05-15T22:39:19.617+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Remote","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"United States"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/confluent/e70deb8a-3308-49dd-b9c7-b537333c5645","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/confluent/e70deb8a-3308-49dd-b9c7-b537333c5645/application","descriptionHtml":"We’re not just building better tech. We’re rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. 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It takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together.
One Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.
Confluent's Cloud Networking team is responsible for making connectivity to and from Confluent Cloud reliable, scalable, secure, cost-efficient, and simple to use — across Kafka, Flink, Connectors, Data Governance, and Tableflow, on AWS, Azure, and GCP.
As Staff PM for Cloud Networking, you will own the platform strategy for how enterprises connect to Confluent Cloud. This is not a feature-level role — you will define the architecture of our networking product surface across all clouds and connection models, set the multi-year roadmap, and operate as a co-decision-maker alongside engineering leadership on the technical direction of the platform. You will work across all networking connection types — PrivateLink, VNet peering, Transit Gateway, Private Service Connect, and egress optimization — and drive alignment across engineering, field, and executive stakeholders on what we build and why.
Own the platform strategy for Confluent Cloud Networking across AWS, Azure, and GCP — defining the north star, multi-year roadmap, and sequencing of bets that balance customer connectivity needs, cost efficiency, security posture, and engineering leverage
Define frameworks and standards that other PMs, designers, and engineers use to evaluate networking decisions — connection model selection criteria, cost attribution models, security control frameworks, and launch readiness standards
Drive architectural decisions in partnership with engineering leadership — weighing trade-offs between user experience, cost, and operational complexity
Expand scope and create optionality — identify adjacencies the team should move into (network observability, cost transparency tooling, next-generation isolation models) and build the business case for them
Develop the product team — mentor Senior PMs on the team, provide feedback on product documents and roadmap thinking, and raise the bar on how the team approaches customer research and decision-making
Build senior stakeholder alignment across product, engineering, sales, field, legal, and security, then present the platform vision to executive leadership to secure organizational investment — develop the business case, communicate trade-offs clearly, and earn commitment for multi-year platform bets
Define and own success metrics at the platform level — connecting technical milestones to business outcomes including revenue, retention, attach rates, and infrastructure cost efficiency
Engage directly with strategic customers and prospects — represent the product roadmap with credibility in technical conversations with enterprise CTOs, architects, and network engineers
8+ years of product management experience, with at least 3 years owning a cloud infrastructure, platform, or networking product
Demonstrated track record of setting product strategy and roadmap at platform or portfolio scope — not just feature-level delivery
Deep fluency in cloud networking concepts: PrivateLink, VNet peering, Transit Gateway, Private Service Connect, DNS, security groups, CIDR/IP management, and their trade-offs across AWS, Azure, and GCP
Experience owning products that serve enterprise customers with complex compliance, security, and connectivity requirements
Proven ability to partner with engineering leadership as a co-decision-maker on architectural direction — not just translating engineering output
Strong analytical foundation: can model unit economics, build business cases with cost/risk sensitivity, and measure platform health through leading and lagging indicators
Practices AI-native product management — uses AI tools as a genuine thought partner throughout the product lifecycle (research, prioritization, spec writing, analytics), with sound judgment on when to use, override, and validate AI output; and brings that same mindset to product design, building features and APIs that are composable, observable, and easy for AI agents and automation to consume
Experience developing PMs and raising the bar on product thinking — through direct mentorship, feedback, or team processes
Experience with Envoy, Service Mesh, DNS and Kubernetes Networking
Familiarity with Terraform, API-first and infrastructure-as-code workflows, and how enterprise engineering teams operate networking automation
Exposure to network traffic metering, data transfer billing attribution, cost transparency tooling, or pricing and packaging strategy for cloud infrastructure products — defining packaging tiers, price points, and commercial model for enterprise buyers
Experience operating in a product-led growth or usage-based pricing environment
An MBA degree is a plus
At the Staff level, we expect more than excellent execution on a defined scope. We're looking for someone who:
Defines the playing field — identifies problems the team isn't yet working on and builds conviction for why they should be
Multiplies others — makes the PMs and engineers around them better through frameworks, feedback, and the way they structure problems
Operates without a ceiling — can go from a whiteboard architecture discussion to a customer negotiation to an executive strategy review, and adds value in all of them
Takes a position — has a clear point of view on where cloud networking is going and can defend it under scrutiny, while remaining open to updating when given new information
Belonging isn’t a perk here. It’s the baseline. We work across time zones and backgrounds, knowing the best ideas come from different perspectives. And we make space for everyone to lead, grow, and challenge what’s possible.
We’re proud to be an equal opportunity 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.
Confluent is an IBM subsidiary which has been acquired by IBM and will be integrated into the IBM organization. By proceeding with this application, you understand that Confluent will share your personal information with other IBM affiliates involved in your recruitment process, wherever these are located. More Information on how IBM protects your personal information, including the safeguards in case of cross-border data transfer, are available here.
","descriptionPlain":"We’re not just building better tech. We’re rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real-time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them.\n\nIt takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together.\n\nOne Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.\n\n\nABOUT THE ROLE:\n\nConfluent's Cloud Networking team is responsible for making connectivity to and from Confluent Cloud reliable, scalable, secure, cost-efficient, and simple to use — across Kafka, Flink, Connectors, Data Governance, and Tableflow, on AWS, Azure, and GCP.\n\nAs Staff PM for Cloud Networking, you will own the platform strategy for how enterprises connect to Confluent Cloud. This is not a feature-level role — you will define the architecture of our networking product surface across all clouds and connection models, set the multi-year roadmap, and operate as a co-decision-maker alongside engineering leadership on the technical direction of the platform. You will work across all networking connection types — PrivateLink, VNet peering, Transit Gateway, Private Service Connect, and egress optimization — and drive alignment across engineering, field, and executive stakeholders on what we build and why.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL DO:\n\n - Own the platform strategy for Confluent Cloud Networking across AWS, Azure, and GCP — defining the north star, multi-year roadmap, and sequencing of bets that balance customer connectivity needs, cost efficiency, security posture, and engineering leverage\n\n - Define frameworks and standards that other PMs, designers, and engineers use to evaluate networking decisions — connection model selection criteria, cost attribution models, security control frameworks, and launch readiness standards\n\n - Drive architectural decisions in partnership with engineering leadership — weighing trade-offs between user experience, cost, and operational complexity\n\n - Expand scope and create optionality — identify adjacencies the team should move into (network observability, cost transparency tooling, next-generation isolation models) and build the business case for them\n\n - Develop the product team — mentor Senior PMs on the team, provide feedback on product documents and roadmap thinking, and raise the bar on how the team approaches customer research and decision-making\n\n - Build senior stakeholder alignment across product, engineering, sales, field, legal, and security, then present the platform vision to executive leadership to secure organizational investment — develop the business case, communicate trade-offs clearly, and earn commitment for multi-year platform bets\n\n - Define and own success metrics at the platform level — connecting technical milestones to business outcomes including revenue, retention, attach rates, and infrastructure cost efficiency\n\n - Engage directly with strategic customers and prospects — represent the product roadmap with credibility in technical conversations with enterprise CTOs, architects, and network engineers\n \n \n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL BRING:\n\n - 8+ years of product management experience, with at least 3 years owning a cloud infrastructure, platform, or networking product\n\n - Demonstrated track record of setting product strategy and roadmap at platform or portfolio scope — not just feature-level delivery\n\n - Deep fluency in cloud networking concepts: PrivateLink, VNet peering, Transit Gateway, Private Service Connect, DNS, security groups, CIDR/IP management, and their trade-offs across AWS, Azure, and GCP\n\n - Experience owning products that serve enterprise customers with complex compliance, security, and connectivity requirements\n\n - Proven ability to partner with engineering leadership as a co-decision-maker on architectural direction — not just translating engineering output\n\n - Strong analytical foundation: can model unit economics, build business cases with cost/risk sensitivity, and measure platform health through leading and lagging indicators\n\n - Practices AI-native product management — uses AI tools as a genuine thought partner throughout the product lifecycle (research, prioritization, spec writing, analytics), with sound judgment on when to use, override, and validate AI output; and brings that same mindset to product design, building features and APIs that are composable, observable, and easy for AI agents and automation to consume\n\n - Experience developing PMs and raising the bar on product thinking — through direct mentorship, feedback, or team processes\n\n\nPREFERRED\n\n - Experience with Envoy, Service Mesh, DNS and Kubernetes Networking\n\n - Familiarity with Terraform, API-first and infrastructure-as-code workflows, and how enterprise engineering teams operate networking automation\n\n - Exposure to network traffic metering, data transfer billing attribution, cost transparency tooling, or pricing and packaging strategy for cloud infrastructure products — defining packaging tiers, price points, and commercial model for enterprise buyers\n\n - Experience operating in a product-led growth or usage-based pricing environment\n\n - An MBA degree is a plus\n \n \n\n\nWHAT GIVES YOU AN EDGE:\n\n - At the Staff level, we expect more than excellent execution on a defined scope. We're looking for someone who:\n \n - Defines the playing field — identifies problems the team isn't yet working on and builds conviction for why they should be\n \n - Multiplies others — makes the PMs and engineers around them better through frameworks, feedback, and the way they structure problems\n \n - Operates without a ceiling — can go from a whiteboard architecture discussion to a customer negotiation to an executive strategy review, and adds value in all of them\n \n - Takes a position — has a clear point of view on where cloud networking is going and can defend it under scrutiny, while remaining open to updating when given new information\n\n\nREADY TO BUILD WHAT'S NEXT? LET’S GET IN MOTION.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCOME AS YOU ARE\n\nBelonging isn’t a perk here. It’s the baseline. We work across time zones and backgrounds, knowing the best ideas come from different perspectives. And we make space for everyone to lead, grow, and challenge what’s possible.\n\nWe’re proud to be an equal opportunity 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.\n\n\n\n\nPRIVACY STATEMENT\n\nConfluent is an IBM subsidiary which has been acquired by IBM and will be integrated into the IBM organization. By proceeding with this application, you understand that Confluent will share your personal information with other IBM affiliates involved in your recruitment process, wherever these are located. More Information on how IBM protects your personal information, including the safeguards in case of cross-border data transfer, are available here http://ibm.com/careers/us-en/privacy-policy/."},{"id":"f60bba87-9470-4238-bf6f-dce1b4da8006","title":"Senior Product Manager, Cluster Linking","department":"Product","team":"Product","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Remote, Ontario, Canada","secondaryLocations":[{"location":"Remote, British Columbia, Canada","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"British Columbia","addressCountry":"Canada"}}}],"publishedAt":"2026-02-17T13:58:08.160+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Remote","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"Ontario","addressCountry":"Canada"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/confluent/f60bba87-9470-4238-bf6f-dce1b4da8006","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/confluent/f60bba87-9470-4238-bf6f-dce1b4da8006/application","descriptionHtml":"We’re not just building better tech. We’re rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real-time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them.
It takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together.
One Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.
Cluster Linking is how Kafka clusters are replicated, and it sits at the very core of Confluent. When a global bank architects zero-data-loss disaster recovery, when an enterprise migrates petabytes off open-source Kafka, or when a multinational replicates event streams across three continents, they're running on Cluster Linking.
This role will define the future of Cluster Linking: how we deliver seamless disaster recovery for Kafka workloads, how we build self-service migration paths into Confluent Cloud, and how we enable cross-organization data sharing to power real-time, operational data exchanges.
Cluster Linking is one of Confluent's fastest-growing platform products and you'll own that growth. Our largest customers depend on it, and because it cuts across Kafka, cloud infrastructure, networking, and security, your work will have visibility and influence across the company.
Launch and drive adoption for our one-click DR initiative. Take disaster recovery from a manually configured capability to a seamless, productized experience that customers can adopt with confidence.
Define the future of real-time stream sharing across organizations, including its security model, networking, access controls, and how it scales across organizations and use cases.
Power capabilities that let customers migrate to Confluent in a few clicks or API calls. Define the art of the possible and make the migration path a reason to choose Confluent.
Segment and re-package Cluster Linking. The product serves Disaster Recovery, migrations, data sharing, and cross-cloud replication, each with different customer needs and pricing dynamics. Define how we package, price, and position each so the offering works for customers and drives growth.
Partner closely with your engineering manager counterpart as a strategic partner. Use that partnership to understand tradeoffs, make decisions fast, and keep the product moving forward.
Work directly with customers. You'll be pulled in many directions, customers will ask a lot of you. Your job is to steer them toward the right architectures and models, get them excited about what's coming, listen to what they need next, and balance the present opportunity with where the product is headed.
Drive results. Run campaigns with sellers and solutions engineers, lead webinars, assemble teams of subject matter experts, and do what it takes to move your priorities forward.
Influence and energize the people around you. Confluent moves fast and people are ready to help. Harness that, get teams excited, rally cross-functional support, and turn organizational momentum into product momentum.
5+ years of product management experience, ideally in infrastructure, data platforms, or cloud products. You've shipped technical products and driven measurable outcomes.
Genuine interest in distributed systems and cloud infrastructure. Kafka is not simple. You don't need prior Kafka expertise, but you need to be energized by technical depth, not put off by it.
A results-driven mindset. You don't wait for things to happen, you make them happen. You get on calls with sellers, you pull in the right people, and you keep pushing until the work is done.
Proven ability to influence. You get people excited and aligned, across engineering, field, sales, finance, and leadership, often without formal authority.
Strong ownership mentality. You take responsibility from day one. You drive ambiguous problems to clarity, remove blockers, and treat the product like your own business.
Business thinking beyond the backlog. You think about segmentation, packaging, pricing, and market impact, not just features. You understand that how a product is offered matters as much as what it does.
Clear communication. You can make technical topics understandable for executive audiences, write sharp product docs, and present confidently to customers and leadership.
LLM or GenAI knowledge is a bonus, but not required
Belonging isn’t a perk here. It’s the baseline. We work across time zones and backgrounds, knowing the best ideas come from different perspectives. And we make space for everyone to lead, grow, and challenge what’s possible.
We’re proud to be an equal opportunity 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.
Confluent is an IBM subsidiary which has been acquired by IBM and will be integrated into the IBM organization. By proceeding with this application, you understand that Confluent will share your personal information with other IBM affiliates involved in your recruitment process, wherever these are located. More Information on how IBM protects your personal information, including the safeguards in case of cross-border data transfer, are available here.
","descriptionPlain":"We’re not just building better tech. We’re rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real-time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them.\n\nIt takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together.\n\nOne Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.\n\n\nABOUT THE ROLE:\n\nCluster Linking is how Kafka clusters are replicated, and it sits at the very core of Confluent. When a global bank architects zero-data-loss disaster recovery, when an enterprise migrates petabytes off open-source Kafka, or when a multinational replicates event streams across three continents, they're running on Cluster Linking.\n\nThis role will define the future of Cluster Linking: how we deliver seamless disaster recovery for Kafka workloads, how we build self-service migration paths into Confluent Cloud, and how we enable cross-organization data sharing to power real-time, operational data exchanges.\n\nCluster Linking is one of Confluent's fastest-growing platform products and you'll own that growth. Our largest customers depend on it, and because it cuts across Kafka, cloud infrastructure, networking, and security, your work will have visibility and influence across the company.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL DO:\n\n - Launch and drive adoption for our one-click DR initiative. Take disaster recovery from a manually configured capability to a seamless, productized experience that customers can adopt with confidence.\n\n - Define the future of real-time stream sharing across organizations, including its security model, networking, access controls, and how it scales across organizations and use cases.\n\n - Power capabilities that let customers migrate to Confluent in a few clicks or API calls. Define the art of the possible and make the migration path a reason to choose Confluent.\n\n - Segment and re-package Cluster Linking. The product serves Disaster Recovery, migrations, data sharing, and cross-cloud replication, each with different customer needs and pricing dynamics. Define how we package, price, and position each so the offering works for customers and drives growth.\n\n - Partner closely with your engineering manager counterpart as a strategic partner. Use that partnership to understand tradeoffs, make decisions fast, and keep the product moving forward.\n\n - Work directly with customers. You'll be pulled in many directions, customers will ask a lot of you. Your job is to steer them toward the right architectures and models, get them excited about what's coming, listen to what they need next, and balance the present opportunity with where the product is headed.\n\n - Drive results. Run campaigns with sellers and solutions engineers, lead webinars, assemble teams of subject matter experts, and do what it takes to move your priorities forward.\n\n - Influence and energize the people around you. Confluent moves fast and people are ready to help. Harness that, get teams excited, rally cross-functional support, and turn organizational momentum into product momentum.\n \n \n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL BRING:\n\n - 5+ years of product management experience, ideally in infrastructure, data platforms, or cloud products. You've shipped technical products and driven measurable outcomes.\n\n - Genuine interest in distributed systems and cloud infrastructure. Kafka is not simple. You don't need prior Kafka expertise, but you need to be energized by technical depth, not put off by it.\n\n - A results-driven mindset. You don't wait for things to happen, you make them happen. You get on calls with sellers, you pull in the right people, and you keep pushing until the work is done.\n\n - Proven ability to influence. You get people excited and aligned, across engineering, field, sales, finance, and leadership, often without formal authority.\n\n - Strong ownership mentality. You take responsibility from day one. You drive ambiguous problems to clarity, remove blockers, and treat the product like your own business.\n\n - Business thinking beyond the backlog. You think about segmentation, packaging, pricing, and market impact, not just features. You understand that how a product is offered matters as much as what it does.\n\n - Clear communication. You can make technical topics understandable for executive audiences, write sharp product docs, and present confidently to customers and leadership.\n\n - LLM or GenAI knowledge is a bonus, but not required\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nREADY TO BUILD WHAT'S NEXT? LET’S GET IN MOTION.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCOME AS YOU ARE\n\nBelonging isn’t a perk here. It’s the baseline. We work across time zones and backgrounds, knowing the best ideas come from different perspectives. And we make space for everyone to lead, grow, and challenge what’s possible.\n\nWe’re proud to be an equal opportunity 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.\n\n\n\n\nPRIVACY STATEMENT\n\nConfluent is an IBM subsidiary which has been acquired by IBM and will be integrated into the IBM organization. By proceeding with this application, you understand that Confluent will share your personal information with other IBM affiliates involved in your recruitment process, wherever these are located. More Information on how IBM protects your personal information, including the safeguards in case of cross-border data transfer, are available here http://ibm.com/careers/us-en/privacy-policy/."},{"id":"f6b05632-b694-49bf-9464-0af5430c8c6c","title":"Senior Engineering Manager, Flink Control Plane","department":"Engineering","team":"Engineering","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Remote, California","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-05-13T22:52:31.407+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Remote","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/confluent/f6b05632-b694-49bf-9464-0af5430c8c6c","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/confluent/f6b05632-b694-49bf-9464-0af5430c8c6c/application","descriptionHtml":"We’re not just building better tech. We’re rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real-time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them.
It takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together.
One Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.
The Flink Platform team is at the forefront of building a robust, serverless control plane for Confluent’s fully managed Flink offering. As the Senior Engineering Manager, you will lead a high-impact team of approximately 10 engineers—including two Staff-level individual contributors—responsible for the \"brain\" of our streaming service.
You will own the customer-facing Flink REST API and Gateway, the Kubernetes operators that orchestrate Flink job lifecycles (submission, scaling, recovery), and the declarative API server that backs them – the stack every Flink customer interaction flows through. Your team is responsible for multi-tenant isolation, end-to-end reliability, and the integration points between Confluent's global control plane and the regional Flink data plane.
This is a critical leadership role where you will balance deep technical strategy–driving architectural excellence and reliability–with a strong focus on people leadership, specifically growing a talented group of senior engineers into the next generation of Staff-level leaders.
Vision & Execution: Own the overall roadmap and execution for the Flink Control Plane. Define the strategy for job orchestration (submission, scaling, recovery) and serverless resource management.
Architectural Leadership: Lead the ongoing migration of the control plane onto Confluent's latest platform foundations and drive major component refactors in service of reliability, security, and scale. You will \"see around corners\" – making the right bets on architecture today so the platform stays resilient as Flink usage grows by orders of magnitude.
Engineering Excellence: Work with engineering teams and product management on critical aspects of product definition, architectural design, and delivery. Influence the overall domain health and operational hygiene for the platform.
Scale & Performance: Drive the control plane's evolution to support 10x growth in compute pools, statements, and tenants per region. Lead initiatives that eliminate hotspots in the metadata and orchestration layers so customer-facing operations remain fast and predictable under load.
People Development: Manage and coach a diverse team. Your primary mission is to mentor junior and mid-level developers, providing them with the architectural context and leadership skills to reach Staff levels.
Collaboration: Work closely with engineering leadership and key stakeholders across Confluent Cloud to drive cross-team efforts to solve complex distributed system challenges at scale – strong cross-org partnership is core to the role.
Operational Integrity: Lead the team in maintaining high code quality, comprehensive test coverage, and a robust on-call rotation, ensuring the control plane meets enterprise-grade reliability standards.
Experience: 10+ years in software development with at least 5+ years in engineering management, specifically leading teams focused on cloud-native infrastructure or managed services.
Technical Depth: Deep knowledge of distributed systems orchestration (Kubernetes operators, controller patterns, declarative API servers) and multi-tenant resource isolation. Experience scaling control planes for managed cloud services (AWS, GCP, Azure, Elastic, Snowflake, Databricks, etc.) is highly preferred. Direct Flink experience is not required.
Leadership Track Record: A proven track record of hiring while ensuring a high bar, keeping engineers motivated through complex technical transitions, and managing performance effectively.
Focus on Reliability: A mindset geared toward \"Operational Excellence.\" You understand how to build and maintain resilient, enduring technical foundations that serve as a central component for other teams to build upon.
Communication: Exceptional ability to influence peers and upper management using data-driven, collaborative techniques and clear written/verbal communication.
Belonging isn’t a perk here. It’s the baseline. We work across time zones and backgrounds, knowing the best ideas come from different perspectives. And we make space for everyone to lead, grow, and challenge what’s possible.
We’re proud to be an equal opportunity 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.
Confluent is an IBM subsidiary which has been acquired by IBM and will be integrated into the IBM organization. By proceeding with this application, you understand that Confluent will share your personal information with other IBM affiliates involved in your recruitment process, wherever these are located. More Information on how IBM protects your personal information, including the safeguards in case of cross-border data transfer, are available here.
","descriptionPlain":"We’re not just building better tech. We’re rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real-time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them.\n\nIt takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together.\n\nOne Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE ROLE:\n\nThe Flink Platform team is at the forefront of building a robust, serverless control plane for Confluent’s fully managed Flink offering. As the Senior Engineering Manager, you will lead a high-impact team of approximately 10 engineers—including two Staff-level individual contributors—responsible for the \"brain\" of our streaming service.\n\n\n\nYou will own the customer-facing Flink REST API and Gateway, the Kubernetes operators that orchestrate Flink job lifecycles (submission, scaling, recovery), and the declarative API server that backs them – the stack every Flink customer interaction flows through. Your team is responsible for multi-tenant isolation, end-to-end reliability, and the integration points between Confluent's global control plane and the regional Flink data plane.\n\n\n\nThis is a critical leadership role where you will balance deep technical strategy–driving architectural excellence and reliability–with a strong focus on people leadership, specifically growing a talented group of senior engineers into the next generation of Staff-level leaders.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL DO:\n\n - Vision & Execution: Own the overall roadmap and execution for the Flink Control Plane. Define the strategy for job orchestration (submission, scaling, recovery) and serverless resource management.\n \n \n\n - Architectural Leadership: Lead the ongoing migration of the control plane onto Confluent's latest platform foundations and drive major component refactors in service of reliability, security, and scale. You will \"see around corners\" – making the right bets on architecture today so the platform stays resilient as Flink usage grows by orders of magnitude.\n \n \n\n - Engineering Excellence: Work with engineering teams and product management on critical aspects of product definition, architectural design, and delivery. Influence the overall domain health and operational hygiene for the platform.\n \n \n\n - Scale & Performance: Drive the control plane's evolution to support 10x growth in compute pools, statements, and tenants per region. Lead initiatives that eliminate hotspots in the metadata and orchestration layers so customer-facing operations remain fast and predictable under load.\n \n \n\n - People Development: Manage and coach a diverse team. Your primary mission is to mentor junior and mid-level developers, providing them with the architectural context and leadership skills to reach Staff levels.\n \n \n\n - Collaboration: Work closely with engineering leadership and key stakeholders across Confluent Cloud to drive cross-team efforts to solve complex distributed system challenges at scale – strong cross-org partnership is core to the role.\n \n \n\n - Operational Integrity: Lead the team in maintaining high code quality, comprehensive test coverage, and a robust on-call rotation, ensuring the control plane meets enterprise-grade reliability standards.\n \n \n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL BRING:\n\n - Experience: 10+ years in software development with at least 5+ years in engineering management, specifically leading teams focused on cloud-native infrastructure or managed services.\n \n \n\n - Technical Depth: Deep knowledge of distributed systems orchestration (Kubernetes operators, controller patterns, declarative API servers) and multi-tenant resource isolation. Experience scaling control planes for managed cloud services (AWS, GCP, Azure, Elastic, Snowflake, Databricks, etc.) is highly preferred. Direct Flink experience is not required.\n \n \n\n - Leadership Track Record: A proven track record of hiring while ensuring a high bar, keeping engineers motivated through complex technical transitions, and managing performance effectively.\n \n \n\n - Focus on Reliability: A mindset geared toward \"Operational Excellence.\" You understand how to build and maintain resilient, enduring technical foundations that serve as a central component for other teams to build upon.\n \n \n\n - Communication: Exceptional ability to influence peers and upper management using data-driven, collaborative techniques and clear written/verbal communication.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nREADY TO BUILD WHAT'S NEXT? LET’S GET IN MOTION.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCOME AS YOU ARE\n\nBelonging isn’t a perk here. It’s the baseline. We work across time zones and backgrounds, knowing the best ideas come from different perspectives. And we make space for everyone to lead, grow, and challenge what’s possible.\n\nWe’re proud to be an equal opportunity 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.\n\n\n\n\nPRIVACY STATEMENT\n\nConfluent is an IBM subsidiary which has been acquired by IBM and will be integrated into the IBM organization. By proceeding with this application, you understand that Confluent will share your personal information with other IBM affiliates involved in your recruitment process, wherever these are located. 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Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real-time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them.
It takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together.
One Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.
This Principal Product Manager role is a high-leverage Individual Contributor position responsible for the complete product strategy and execution for Apache Flink across Confluent Cloud and Platform. This is an ambiguous and technical domain that requires a seasoned leader who can build durable platform capabilities, translate complex systems into clear strategy, and operate independently.
Define and drive the multi-year product strategy and roadmap for Apache Flink across cloud and on-prem products.
Establish structured processes to align product, engineering, GTM, and executive stakeholders.
Identify high-leverage, 0-to-1 product opportunities for Flink and in adjacent areas like AI, data engineering, data warehousing, and event-driven applications.
Define how Confluent Flink offerings will work across Confluent and IBM product portfolio.
Proven ability to own and deliver product strategy for complex cloud data products for customers ranging from data engineers to software developers.
Deep technical expertise in distributed systems, data engineering, and cloud. Domain expertise in streaming technologies such as Kafka, Flink, or Spark is a plus but not required.
Experience leading product development across the entire lifecycle, scaling businesses from early product-market fit to substantial revenue.
10+ years of experience in product management for a technical software or cloud service product.
Hands-on engineering or technical background, including comfort with systems design, API design, and several languages (e.g., Python, Java, Scala, SQL, etc.).
Experience with open-source software and determining commercialization strategy while building the community.
Track record in data infrastructure, analytics, AI/ML platforms, real-time systems, or streaming systems, especially where the product serves customers with a diversity of technical depth.
Belonging isn’t a perk here. It’s the baseline. We work across time zones and backgrounds, knowing the best ideas come from different perspectives. And we make space for everyone to lead, grow, and challenge what’s possible.
We’re proud to be an equal opportunity 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.
Confluent is an IBM subsidiary which has been acquired by IBM and will be integrated into the IBM organization. By proceeding with this application, you understand that Confluent will share your personal information with other IBM affiliates involved in your recruitment process, wherever these are located. More Information on how IBM protects your personal information, including the safeguards in case of cross-border data transfer, are available here.
","descriptionPlain":"We’re not just building better tech. We’re rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real-time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them.\n\nIt takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together.\n\nOne Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.\n\n\nABOUT THE ROLE:\n\nThis Principal Product Manager role is a high-leverage Individual Contributor position responsible for the complete product strategy and execution for Apache Flink across Confluent Cloud and Platform. This is an ambiguous and technical domain that requires a seasoned leader who can build durable platform capabilities, translate complex systems into clear strategy, and operate independently.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL DO:\n\n - Define and drive the multi-year product strategy and roadmap for Apache Flink across cloud and on-prem products.\n\n - Establish structured processes to align product, engineering, GTM, and executive stakeholders.\n\n - Identify high-leverage, 0-to-1 product opportunities for Flink and in adjacent areas like AI, data engineering, data warehousing, and event-driven applications.\n\n - Define how Confluent Flink offerings will work across Confluent and IBM product portfolio.\n \n \n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL BRING:\n\n - Proven ability to own and deliver product strategy for complex cloud data products for customers ranging from data engineers to software developers.\n\n - Deep technical expertise in distributed systems, data engineering, and cloud. Domain expertise in streaming technologies such as Kafka, Flink, or Spark is a plus but not required.\n\n - Experience leading product development across the entire lifecycle, scaling businesses from early product-market fit to substantial revenue.\n\n - 10+ years of experience in product management for a technical software or cloud service product.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT GIVES YOU AN EDGE:\n\n - Hands-on engineering or technical background, including comfort with systems design, API design, and several languages (e.g., Python, Java, Scala, SQL, etc.).\n\n - Experience with open-source software and determining commercialization strategy while building the community.\n\n - Track record in data infrastructure, analytics, AI/ML platforms, real-time systems, or streaming systems, especially where the product serves customers with a diversity of technical depth.\n\n\nREADY TO BUILD WHAT'S NEXT? LET’S GET IN MOTION.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCOME AS YOU ARE\n\nBelonging isn’t a perk here. It’s the baseline. We work across time zones and backgrounds, knowing the best ideas come from different perspectives. And we make space for everyone to lead, grow, and challenge what’s possible.\n\nWe’re proud to be an equal opportunity 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.\n\n\n\n\nPRIVACY STATEMENT\n\nConfluent is an IBM subsidiary which has been acquired by IBM and will be integrated into the IBM organization. By proceeding with this application, you understand that Confluent will share your personal information with other IBM affiliates involved in your recruitment process, wherever these are located. More Information on how IBM protects your personal information, including the safeguards in case of cross-border data transfer, are available here http://ibm.com/careers/us-en/privacy-policy/."}],"apiVersion":"1"}