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.
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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 seeking a hands-on, distributed systems leader for our Kafka team.
You will be leading the team that manages a fleet of thousands of clusters across AWS, GCP, and Azure, solving some of the most complex challenges in distributed systems at a massive scale. You will be directly responsible for defining the vision, building the roadmap, and driving critical cross-team efforts to deliver on an ambitious charter.
Own the Vision & Execution: Define and drive the overall roadmap for the one of the team within Kafka org.
Lead & Mentor: Grow, coach, and nurture a high-performance team of distributed systems engineers. You will be responsible for hiring, performance management, and keeping a high bar for talent.
Drive High-Impact Results: Lead critical technical initiatives focused on reliability, performance, scalability, and multi-tenancy. You will be accountable for meeting and exceeding the SLAs for our most critical cloud services.
Foster Operational Excellence: Champion a strong culture of ownership and continuous improvement. You will lead effective root cause analyses and implement corrective actions to improve the security, reliability, and performance of your services.
Collaborate & Influence: Work closely with product management, engineering leadership, and stakeholders across Confluent. You will align roadmaps and foster strong partnerships to solve complex challenges that cross organizational boundaries.
Experience: 12+ years in software development and 4+ years in an engineering management role.
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Leadership: A track record of leading and nurturing high-performance teams, with strong collaboration skills and the ability to execute against complex, cross-functional roadmaps.
Technical Acumen: The ability to \"see around corners\" to reduce complexity and build enduring technical foundations. A strong bias for action and excellent prioritization skills.
Education: Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent.
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.
About the Role
Backend engineers at Confluent build the cloud services and systems that power our data streaming platform. You’ll work on large-scale, distributed backend systems that need to be highly available, reliable, and easy to operate.
This is a general L3 backend role used across multiple product and platform teams. Depending on your background and interests, you may work on areas such as core platform services, governance and metadata, observability and telemetry, security and access, or customer-facing application experiences. We’ll align you to a team during the hiring process based on your skills and what excites you.
You’ll partner closely with other engineers, product managers, and designers to ship features end to end — from design and implementation to rollout and ongoing operation in production.
What You Will Do
Design, build, and operate backend services that are secure, reliable, and scalable in a cloud-native environment.
Own features and projects end to end: requirements, design, implementation, testing, rollout, and ongoing improvements.
Work with distributed systems and microservices, with a focus on performance, resiliency, and clear API contracts.
Contribute to service reliability and operations, including monitoring, alerting, and on-call participation where applicable.
Collaborate with partner teams on architecture, data modeling, and integration points across Confluent’s platform.
Write clean, well-tested, and well-documented code, and participate in code reviews that raise the bar for the team.
Help improve engineering practices, tools, and automation to make it easier and safer to ship code.
Contribute to a healthy team culture through clear communication, inclusive collaboration, and a willingness to learn and teach.
What You Will Bring
3+ years of industry experience designing, building, and supporting backend systems in production.
Strong programming and algorithmic skills in at least one major language (for example, Java, Go, C/C++, or Python), and the ability to learn new languages and frameworks as needed.
Experience with distributed systems or large-scale backend services, such as microservices, data pipelines, event-driven architectures, or high-throughput APIs.
Hands-on experience deploying and operating services on a public cloud (AWS, GCP, or Azure), including knowledge of containers and orchestration tools (for example, Docker and Kubernetes).
Familiarity with databases and storage systems, such as relational databases, NoSQL stores, or distributed data systems, and an understanding of performance and scalability tradeoffs.
A focus on quality and reliability, including testing strategies, observability (metrics, logging, tracing), and incident response best practices.
Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional partners across time zones.
A growth mindset: you’re curious, open to feedback, and comfortable working in areas that may be new to you.
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\nAbout the Role\n\nBackend engineers at Confluent build the cloud services and systems that power our data streaming platform. You’ll work on large-scale, distributed backend systems that need to be highly available, reliable, and easy to operate.\n\nThis is a general L3 backend role used across multiple product and platform teams. 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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.
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
6+ 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.
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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 level technical leader to help us build the next-generation network data plane to enable our Confluent Cloud platform to achieve 10x the current scale. This is a hybrid engineering role, blending deep software development expertise with hands-on operational excellence.
Cloud networking is a strategic investment area with significant potential to impact the company's growth. The Traffic team is responsible for the network platform of Confluent Cloud with a focus on performance, security, reliability, and cost optimizations for all network traffic that ingresses and egresses a customer's Kafka and DSP deployments as well as all internal service to service traffic on Confluent Cloud.
You will architect, design and lead cross-team initiatives to deliver highly scalable, cost efficient, networking data plane solutions, while also ensuring these systems are reliable, observable, and resilient in production. You’ll work across engineering, security, product, and platform orgs to deliver building blocks that empower product teams to integrate networking seamlessly.
Design, develop, and operationalize high-performance, scalable, reliable, and resilient systems for the Confluent Cloud network data plane platform.
Independently drive the execution of ambiguously scoped cross-team software projects, ensuring the delivery of complex projects in production with a focus on quality.
Leverage cloud providers to deliver impactful business solutions.
Troubleshoot and improve operations for a complex technical stack that spans across AWS, Azure, and GCP, including microservices, containers, and virtualization.
BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
8+ years of software engineering industry experience.
Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development.
Experience in building and operating large-scale systems.
Solid understanding of networking primitives and protocols.
Self-starter with the ability to work effectively in teams.
Proficiency in C++, Go, Python, or other programming languages
Experience with Kubernetes.
Experience with network proxies and/or load balancers.
Experience 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.
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You’ll work across engineering, security, product, and platform orgs to deliver building blocks that empower product teams to integrate networking seamlessly.\n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL DO:\n\n - Design, develop, and operationalize high-performance, scalable, reliable, and resilient systems for the Confluent Cloud network data plane platform.\n\n - Independently drive the execution of ambiguously scoped cross-team software projects, ensuring the delivery of complex projects in production with a focus on quality.\n\n - Leverage cloud providers to deliver impactful business solutions.\n\n - Troubleshoot and improve operations for a complex technical stack that spans across AWS, Azure, and GCP, including microservices, containers, and virtualization.\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 - 8+ years of software engineering industry experience.\n\n - Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development.\n\n - Experience in building and operating large-scale systems.\n\n - Solid understanding of networking primitives and protocols.\n\n - Self-starter with the ability to work effectively in teams.\n\n - Proficiency in C++, Go, Python, or other programming languages\n\n\nWHAT GIVES YOU AN EDGE:\n\n - Experience with Kubernetes.\n\n - Experience with network proxies and/or load balancers.\n\n - Experience with public clouds (AWS, Azure, or GCP).\n\n\nREADY TO BUILD WHAT'S NEXT? 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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.
The Stream Processing & Analytics (SPA) team is building an elastic, reliable, durable, cost-effective, and performant stream processing engine based on Apache Flink for Confluent Cloud. This role is critical in defining and executing the long-term vision around a scalable, efficient, resilient and true cloud native data stream processor, including initiatives enabling autoscaling and limitless state management, ensuring a zero-knob and worry-free experience for our users and customers by providing the right amount of stream processing at any given point in time, allowing customers to focus on building their use case without managing infrastructure complexities.
Architect and Drive Technical Strategy: Own the architecture and technical strategy for a complex engineering system (e.g., a core component of scheduling, deployment, autoscaling, or state management) within the Flink engine.
Contribute to the broader technical vision and translate it into actionable, high-impact projects aligned with Confluent Cloud’s strategic goals.
Exercise sound judgment in balancing short-term implementation efforts versus long-term architectural health.
Complex Project Execution:Independently drive the execution of open-ended, complicated technical projects within your area of expertise or across peer teams from inception through production.
Identify and initiate high leverage, high impact projects in your area of expertise and gain buy-in from stakeholders.
Significantly simplify the complexity of code and design to help the team and company move fast.
Technical Expertise and Operational Excellence:Serve as the sought-out technical expert for your domain, driving great quality and impact to architectural designs for your team and peer teams.
Improve the stability, performance, scalability, and operational excellence across multiple critical systems within the SPA team.
Act as a subject matter expert for troubleshooting and improving operational automation, proactively addressing systemic issues.
Mentorship and Communication:Demonstrate strong, clear, succinct technical communication skills (written and verbal) to drive clear decisions and uplevel communication for the team.
Mentor and coach junior and mid-level engineers, helping the team grow sustainably (e.g., by setting up processes/tools that make others successful).
Deep Expertise: BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience, typically involving 8+ years of relevant experience in stream processing or large-scale distributed systems.
Architectural Acumen: Demonstrated strong fundamentals and extensive experience in the architecture, design, and development of a complex engineering system from end to end.
Strategic Influence: Proven ability to lead efforts with a group OR own a deep technical area individually, and effectively align small groups on technical direction.
Cloud Native Knowledge: Strong understanding of cloud engineering principles, including building and operating mission-critical systems in public cloud environments.
Polyglot Proficiency: Proficiency in Go, Java, Scala, or Rust with the ability to contribute technically to development in these languages.
Specialized Domain Knowledge: Deep expertise in the design, implementation, and optimization of large-scale, fault-tolerant state management systems, distributed storage systems, or high-throughput messaging systems.
Open Source Engagement: Recognized, impactful technical contributions to open-source stream processing projects, particularly Apache Flink.
Cloud Operations: Hands-on experience designing and operating Kubernetes operators for distributed applications.
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 Stream Processing & Analytics (SPA) team is building an elastic, reliable, durable, cost-effective, and performant stream processing engine based on Apache Flink for Confluent Cloud. 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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.
The Clients team has a vision to provide a great Kafka developer experience for the user communities by aiming to simplify and improve the usability of our non java languages open source libraries. As a staff engineer, you will design, build, and own the product engineering decisions by closely working with the team, product managers, customers, and other stakeholders. You will drive architectural decisions and lead in shaping the product landscape around client interfaces through their ease of use, reliability, and efficient development. You will touch on a number of language interfaces across all popular programming languages, as well as develop and advance the core C/C++ capabilities backing those interface languages.
Build and enhance the open source libraries around Kafka using low level Kafka protocol.
Enhance the various language libraries to better standards and more usable APIs.
Collaborate effectively across engineering, product, field teams and other key stakeholders to create and execute impactful roadmap for the clients team.
Provide technical leadership, mentorship and drive strong teamwork.
Integrate long term needs from open source and partner teams into technical plans.
Identify and manage technical debt and long term projects equally.
BS or MS in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
7+ years of relevant software development experience.
3+ years of development involving SDKs, language libraries, or other client side applications.
Deep technical knowledge of at least two programming languages.
Proficiency in C/C++ and Java.
Ability to influence the team, peers, and management using effective communication and collaborative techniques.
Proven experience in leading and mentoring technical teams.
A strong understanding of good and bad patterns for client library interface APIs.
A keen interest in understanding users of your software and solving their problems.
Additional language (Rust, Python, Golang, Javascript or Dotnet) and/or technology migration experience using GraalVM will have an added advantage.
Experience developing SaaS services on public clouds providers (AWS, Azure or GCP)
Interest in evangelism (giving talks at tech conferences, writing blog posts evangelizing Kafka).
Wide programming language idiom exposure.
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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You will touch on a number of language interfaces across all popular programming languages, as well as develop and advance the core C/C++ capabilities backing those interface languages.\n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL DO:\n\n - Build and enhance the open source libraries around Kafka using low level Kafka protocol.\n\n - Enhance the various language libraries to better standards and more usable APIs.\n\n - Collaborate effectively across engineering, product, field teams and other key stakeholders to create and execute impactful roadmap for the clients team.\n\n - Provide technical leadership, mentorship and drive strong teamwork.\n\n - Integrate long term needs from open source and partner teams into technical plans.\n\n - Identify and manage technical debt and long term projects equally.\n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL BRING:\n\n - BS or MS in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience.\n\n - 7+ years of relevant software development experience.\n\n - 3+ years of development involving SDKs, language libraries, or other client side applications.\n\n - Deep technical knowledge of at least two programming languages.\n\n - Proficiency in C/C++ and Java.\n\n - Ability to influence the team, peers, and management using effective communication and collaborative techniques.\n\n - Proven experience in leading and mentoring technical teams.\n\n\nWHAT GIVES YOU AN EDGE:\n\n - A strong understanding of good and bad patterns for client library interface APIs.\n\n - A keen interest in understanding users of your software and solving their problems.\n\n - Additional language (Rust, Python, Golang, Javascript or Dotnet) and/or technology migration experience using GraalVM will have an added advantage.\n\n - Experience developing SaaS services on public clouds providers (AWS, Azure or GCP)\n\n - Interest in evangelism (giving talks at tech conferences, writing blog posts evangelizing Kafka).\n\n - Wide programming language idiom exposure.\n\n\nREADY TO BUILD WHAT'S NEXT? LET’S GET IN MOTION.\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\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 seeking an innovative and executing Staff Engineer to help make stream processing feel like using a database with SQL. In this role, you will be instrumental in developing the core building blocks that will allow users a true just-in time, consumption based experience, making it the most efficient and fast cloud native Apache Flink experience on the market. You will be working in a team with other known Flink experts iterating on an already existing implementation based on actual usage data and product requirements. With the team you will also be working on relevant components of open source Apache Flink that will benefit both the Open Source community as well as Confluent.
Work on the next iterations of Flink SQL components such as logical query planner, parser, optimizer and SQL runtime on Confluent Cloud to deliver an efficient and unified experience for batch and streaming workloads.
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 SQL but also draft designs, discuss them and curate and moderate a decision with involved stakeholders.
Open Source contribution: As part of the Flink SQL team you will contribute to relevant changes and features to Open Source Apache Flink and help the community to maintain a high quality project by participating in relevant mailing list discussions, reviewing PRs affecting deployment and coordination components.
Open Source visibility: You will also write blog posts and give talks at meetups and conferences to strengthen the position of Confluent Cloud as industry experts for stream processing and Apache Flink in particular.
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 Apache Flink 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 database internals, especially around query planning and optimization. Extensive experience in software development, including hands-on experience in designing and development of complex distributed systems.
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.
Industry Engagement: Active involvement in stream processing communities, conferences, and a strong network within the industry.
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 is seeking an innovative and executing Staff Engineer to help make stream processing feel like using a database with SQL. In this role, you will be instrumental in developing the core building blocks that will allow users a true just-in time, consumption based experience, making it the most efficient and fast cloud native Apache Flink experience on the market. You will be working in a team with other known Flink experts iterating on an already existing implementation based on actual usage data and product requirements. With the team you will also be working on relevant components of open source Apache Flink that will benefit both the Open Source community as well as Confluent.\n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL DO:\n\n - Work on the next iterations of Flink SQL components such as logical query planner, parser, optimizer and SQL runtime on Confluent Cloud to deliver an efficient and unified experience for batch and streaming workloads.\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 SQL but also draft designs, discuss them and curate and moderate a decision with involved stakeholders.\n\n - Open Source contribution: As part of the Flink SQL team you will contribute to relevant changes and features to Open Source Apache Flink and help the community to maintain a high quality project by participating in relevant mailing list discussions, reviewing PRs affecting deployment and coordination components.\n\n - Open Source visibility: You will also write blog posts and give talks at meetups and conferences to strengthen the position of Confluent Cloud as industry experts for stream processing and Apache Flink in particular.\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 Apache Flink to get started in the community and more junior developers to get into the area of serverless Apache Flink.\n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL BRING:\n\n - 10+ years of relevant software development experience.\n\n - Technical Expertise: Deep knowledge of database internals, especially around query planning and optimization. Extensive experience in software development, including hands-on experience in designing and development of complex distributed systems.\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 - Industry Engagement: Active involvement in stream processing communities, conferences, and a strong network within the industry.\n\n\n\n\n\nREADY TO BUILD WHAT'S NEXT? LET’S GET IN MOTION.\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\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/.","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":"$230.8K – $271.2K • Offers Equity","scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":"$230.8K - $271.2K","compensationTiers":[{"id":"4e02c855-40ff-4cff-8f3e-f059bfd47521","tierSummary":"$230.8K – $271.2K • Offers Equity","title":null,"additionalInformation":null,"components":[{"id":"3529945a-84b8-42ee-88f9-a4a84a1bf1e9","summary":"Offers Equity","compensationType":"EquityCashValue","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"USD","minValue":null,"maxValue":null},{"id":"2aa8a4bb-67c3-4ead-a56b-98514d7abcc7","summary":"$230.8K – $271.2K","compensationType":"Salary","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"USD","minValue":230800,"maxValue":271200}]}],"summaryComponents":[{"compensationType":"EquityCashValue","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"USD","minValue":null,"maxValue":null},{"compensationType":"Salary","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"USD","minValue":230800,"maxValue":271200}]}},{"id":"ca3f2007-6218-4d96-93a5-32230addfd31","title":"Senior Software Engineer II","department":"Engineering","team":"Engineering","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Remote, Ontario, Canada","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":true,"secondaryLocations":[{"location":"Remote, British Columbia, Canada","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"British Columbia","addressCountry":"Canada"}}}],"publishedAt":"2026-03-13T17:54:28.746+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Remote","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"Ontario","addressCountry":"Canada"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/confluent/ca3f2007-6218-4d96-93a5-32230addfd31","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/confluent/ca3f2007-6218-4d96-93a5-32230addfd31/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.
About the Role
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.
What You Will Do
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.
What You Will Bring
7+ 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.
What Gives You an Edge
These are not required, but nice to have:
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.
Previous work in security, governance, or compliance-sensitive backend domains.
Demonstrated impact beyond your immediate team, such as cross-org initiatives, technical vision, or platform investments.
Contributions to open source, technical writing, or speaking that show depth in backend or distributed systems.
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\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\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\nWhat You Will Bring\n\n - 7+ 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\nWhat Gives You an Edge\n\nThese are not required, but nice to have:\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 - Previous work in security, governance, or compliance-sensitive backend domains.\n\n - Demonstrated impact beyond your immediate team, such as cross-org initiatives, technical vision, or platform investments.\n\n - Contributions to open source, technical writing, or speaking that show depth in backend or distributed systems.\n\n\nREADY TO BUILD WHAT'S NEXT? LET’S GET IN MOTION.\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\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/.","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":"CA$179.2K – CA$210.6K • Offers Equity","scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":"CA$179.2K - CA$210.6K","compensationTiers":[{"id":"aa39ab74-4825-40b3-a866-304edbbb30dd","tierSummary":"CA$179.2K – CA$210.6K • Offers Equity","title":null,"additionalInformation":null,"components":[{"id":"2cc6f627-cfda-4a70-9487-501c16634617","summary":"CA$179.2K – CA$210.6K","compensationType":"Salary","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"CAD","minValue":179200,"maxValue":210600},{"id":"d63fabd5-878a-4e5a-9a11-56bbec4f08a8","summary":"Offers Equity","compensationType":"EquityCashValue","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"CAD","minValue":null,"maxValue":null}]}],"summaryComponents":[{"compensationType":"Salary","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"CAD","minValue":179200,"maxValue":210600},{"compensationType":"EquityCashValue","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"CAD","minValue":null,"maxValue":null}]}},{"id":"2b7f816b-9f5b-4023-b38d-46fd3e117298","title":"Staff Software Engineer I - Stream Governance","department":"Engineering","team":"Engineering","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Remote, Ontario, Canada","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":true,"secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2025-09-22T18:00:58.279+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Remote","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"Ontario","addressCountry":"Canada"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/confluent/2b7f816b-9f5b-4023-b38d-46fd3e117298","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/confluent/2b7f816b-9f5b-4023-b38d-46fd3e117298/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.
As a Staff Software Engineer, you will be the technical lead for several key initiatives for the Stream Governance product at Confluent. The Stream Governance product portfolio is crucial to bringing Confluent’s mission to put event streaming at the heart of every organization and is a core component of the Data Streaming Platform. As part of our Stream Governance offering, you will be responsible for delivering critical functionalities such as Confluent Stream Catalog, Stream Sharing, Stream Lineage and Data Portal. These products enable our customers to search, organize, understand, share and access data in a self-service way.
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.
Develop a cloud-native Stream Governance platform for Kafka and real-time data, which is a multi-tenant, highly available, and scalable service
Architect a complex engineering system from end to end
Partner across engineering and other key stakeholders to create and execute the overall roadmap for delivering a top-notch Data Streaming Platform for our customers
Evaluate and enhance the efficiency of our platform's technology stack, keeping pace with industry trends and adopting state-of-the-art solutions
Solve complicated technical projects with high quality and provide technical guidance to the team in specialized areas
As a vital member of our team, take responsibility for developing, managing, and maintaining a mission-critical service with a 99.99 SLA running on 90+ AWS, GCP, and Azure regions
Enhance the stability, performance, scalability, and operational excellence across multiple critical systems
10+ years of relevant software development experience
Technical expertise in large-scale systems engineering or distributed systems
5+ years of experience with designing, building, and scaling distributed systems
Experience running production services in the cloud and being part of oncall rotation
Expertise in cloud-native technology, including networking & security
Prior experience working on AWS, GCP, or Azure and a deep understanding of cloud best practices
Ability to influence the team, peers, and management using effective communication and collaborative techniques
Proven experience in leading and mentoring technical teams
Drive results by removing friction and improving the development stack with urgency and prioritization skills
BS Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience. An advanced degree in computer science is preferred
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 Software Engineer, you will be the technical lead for several key initiatives for the Stream Governance product at Confluent. The Stream Governance product portfolio is crucial to bringing Confluent’s mission to put event streaming at the heart of every organization and is a core component of the 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\n\nWHAT YOU WILL DO:\n\n - Develop a cloud-native Stream Governance platform for Kafka and real-time data, which is a multi-tenant, highly available, and scalable service\n\n - Architect a complex engineering system from end to end\n\n - Partner across engineering and other key stakeholders to create and execute the overall roadmap for delivering a top-notch Data Streaming Platform for our customers\n\n - Evaluate and enhance the efficiency of our platform's technology stack, keeping pace with industry trends and adopting state-of-the-art solutions\n\n - Solve complicated technical projects with high quality and provide technical guidance to the team in specialized areas\n\n - As a vital member of our team, take responsibility for developing, managing, and maintaining a mission-critical service with a 99.99 SLA running on 90+ AWS, GCP, and Azure regions\n\n - Enhance the stability, performance, scalability, and operational excellence across multiple critical systems\n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL BRING:\n\n - 10+ years of relevant software development experience\n\n - Technical expertise in large-scale systems engineering or distributed systems\n\n - 5+ years of experience with designing, building, and scaling distributed systems\n\n - Experience running production services in the cloud and being part of oncall rotation\n\n - Expertise in cloud-native technology, including networking & security\n Prior experience working on AWS, GCP, or Azure and a deep understanding of cloud best practices\n\n - Ability to influence the team, peers, and management using effective communication and collaborative techniques\n\n - Proven experience in leading and mentoring technical teams\n\n - Drive results by removing friction and improving the development stack with urgency and prioritization skills\n\n - BS Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience. An advanced degree in computer science is preferred\n\n\n\n\n\nREADY TO BUILD WHAT'S NEXT? LET’S GET IN MOTION.\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\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.
As a core member of the Product Security team, you will be at the forefront of creating high-impact security features for Confluent Cloud and improving our security platform. This is a role where you will designing and implementing identity and access management functionality, as well as scalable authentication and authorization methods like OAuth, mTLS, RBAC and ABAC. You'll play a vital part in our cross-functional efforts, collaborating closely with product, engineering, and InfoSec teams to build frictionless yet secure solutions. Your contributions will directly enhance Confluent Cloud's security posture and ensure a seamless experience for our customers.
Independently drive execution of projects and deploy them to production with a focus on quality and customer impact.
Collaborate effectively with a high performing team and cross-functional partners and make decisions which benefit the team and company.
Troubleshoot issues, perform root cause analysis and improve operations for complex problems that span all clouds.
Produce clean, well-documented, and maintainable code that adheres to established team standards and security best practices.
Deliver value for customers by taking on their most challenging problems.
2-5 years of relevant software, product and/or security engineering 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)
Proficiency in Java, Scala, C/C++, Go or other statically typed languages
Experience in both frontend and backend stacks
Experience in the areas of security, identity and access management
Experience/knowledge with public clouds (AWS, Azure or GCP)
Interest in evangelism (giving talks at tech conferences, writing blog posts evangelizing IAM and Security concepts)
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 core member of the Product Security team, you will be at the forefront of creating high-impact security features for Confluent Cloud and improving our security platform. This is a role where you will designing and implementing identity and access management functionality, as well as scalable authentication and authorization methods like OAuth, mTLS, RBAC and ABAC. You'll play a vital part in our cross-functional efforts, collaborating closely with product, engineering, and InfoSec teams to build frictionless yet secure solutions. 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LET’S GET IN MOTION.\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\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.
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\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\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\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\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\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/.","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":"PLN 636,200 – PLN 756,850 • Offers Equity","scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":"PLN 636,200 - PLN 756,850","compensationTiers":[{"id":"4e425d6c-0fc5-4bda-bce9-a0b871dfe70d","tierSummary":"PLN 636,200 – PLN 756,850 • Offers Equity","title":null,"additionalInformation":null,"components":[{"id":"5ecf0352-6c0a-4c1d-bbb6-c0bf521786e2","summary":"PLN 636,200 – PLN 756,850","compensationType":"Salary","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"PLN","minValue":636200,"maxValue":756850},{"id":"184d8359-d2cd-432f-b254-d952d487381d","summary":"Offers Equity","compensationType":"EquityCashValue","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"PLN","minValue":null,"maxValue":null}]}],"summaryComponents":[{"compensationType":"Salary","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"PLN","minValue":636200,"maxValue":756850},{"compensationType":"EquityCashValue","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"PLN","minValue":null,"maxValue":null}]}},{"id":"d9698ddf-9a48-4c8b-8aa2-5b272f204f11","title":"Senior Security Engineer II","department":"Engineering","team":"Engineering","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"IN Remote India","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":false,"secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2025-11-19T07:40:15.959+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":null,"workplaceType":null,"address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"Karnātaka","addressCountry":"India","addressLocality":"Bengaluru"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/confluent/d9698ddf-9a48-4c8b-8aa2-5b272f204f11","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/confluent/d9698ddf-9a48-4c8b-8aa2-5b272f204f11/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.
We are looking for an experienced security engineer to join our infrastructure security engineering team with a strong focus on detection and response. You will have a unique opportunity to leverage your threat detection and response experience and build some of the foundational systems and services to keep our infrastructure free from malicious actors and threats.
You will partner closely with all engineering teams, IT administrators, and compliance analysts to ensure that we maintain sufficient visibility into our environments and develop effective programs and practices to ensure that our environments are always secure. Tooling and automation will be key to success as we scale our environments to meet customer demand.
We intend to be the world's best, fastest, and most complete stream processing service built by an excellent team, all while having fun - come join us on the journey!
What You Will Do:
Collaborate with engineering teams for building and setting up pipelines needed to gather relevant security telemetry.
Build and maintain an effective and scalable security monitoring infrastructure solution.
Develop detection strategies to identify anomalous activity and ensure that our critical infrastructure and services operate in a safe environment.
Triage alerts and drive security incidents to closure while reducing its potential impact to Confluent.
Build processes and workflows to triage security alerts and respond to real incidents.
Research new threat attack vectors and ensure that our detection and response capability is in line with the current threat landscape.
Proactively improve the quality of our detection rules and strive to eliminate classes of issues by working directly with engineering teams.
Contribute to strategy, risk management and prioritization for all efforts around detection and response.
What You Will Bring:
8+ years of relevant industry experience.
Strong domain knowledge in security incident detection and response.
Hands-on experience in instrumenting and deploying telemetry solutions to ensure visibility in large-scale, heterogenous deployments.
Demonstrated experience with effective incident response and containment practices, preferably in a cloud-first environment.
Experience with operating open-source and/or commercial solutions for logging and security event management.
Decision-maker with the ability to operate with freedom and autonomy.
Experience working with distributed teams and other cross-functional stakeholders.
Ability to manage competing priorities and workload.
Ability to script or code fluently in an interpreted language.
Experience with serverless deployments in AWS, GCP, or Azure 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.
We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the technical vision, architecture, and execution for Internal Access Management at Confluent. This role is central to our trusted compute environment and requires deep expertise in distributed systems, cloud security, authentication, and policy-driven authorization frameworks.
As the domain owner, you will define how Confluent enforces least privilege, manages workload identity, governs access boundaries, and ensures secure, auditable authorization across all engineering systems. You will partner with Security, Product, and Engineering to establish a cohesive end-to-end access posture.
Define and drive the long-term architecture and roadmap for Internal Access Management across Kubernetes and multi-cloud environments.
Architect and implement least privilege, just-in-time access, and zero-trust models across Confluent services.
Build and evolve scalable access-authorization workflows and lifecycle management systems using technologies such as OPA, cloud IAM policies, workload identity, and internal enforcement engines.
Strengthen security boundaries through threat modeling, defense-in-depth practices, and comprehensive access-auditing capabilities.
Partner with cross-functional teams—including Platform, Kafka, Observability, Developer Productivity, Release Engineering, and SRE—to drive adoption of secure identity and access patterns.
Mentor senior engineers, elevate engineering standards, and influence architectural decisions across the organization.
Communicate complex technical decisions clearly and align stakeholders across engineering and security.
10+ years of engineering experience, with 4+ years in security, IAM, or distributed systems.
Deep expertise in Kubernetes, workload identity, cloud IAM (AWS, GCP, Azure), and zero-trust architectures.
Strong understanding of authentication technologies: IAM, OAuth2, OIDC, policy engines, and modern zero-trust principles.
Proven track record leading multi-team technical initiatives at a Staff or Senior Staff level.
Strong knowledge of distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, container orchestration, and service mesh.
Excellent communication and stakeholder-influence skills across engineering and security domains.
Experience leading cross-org security platform architecture initiatives.
Background in building developer-focused authentication and authorization platforms.
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 seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the technical vision, architecture, and execution for Internal Access Management at Confluent. 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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 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\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. 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LET’S GET IN MOTION.\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\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/.","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":"CA$163.9K – CA$192.6K • Offers Equity","scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":"CA$163.9K - CA$192.6K","compensationTiers":[{"id":"c664780d-b4c8-47e3-89f4-7806f9fb30ac","tierSummary":"CA$163.9K – CA$192.6K • Offers Equity","title":null,"additionalInformation":null,"components":[{"id":"0fb3540c-c51f-4f5b-9f46-2bdca632fb64","summary":"CA$163.9K – CA$192.6K","compensationType":"Salary","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"CAD","minValue":163900,"maxValue":192600},{"id":"d6498155-908e-4ede-beed-09f638f6005f","summary":"Offers Equity","compensationType":"EquityCashValue","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"CAD","minValue":null,"maxValue":null}]}],"summaryComponents":[{"compensationType":"Salary","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"CAD","minValue":163900,"maxValue":192600},{"compensationType":"EquityCashValue","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"CAD","minValue":null,"maxValue":null}]}},{"id":"95960e5a-c192-4691-ac3d-c7e292e28550","title":"AI Architect ","department":"Business Technology","team":"Business Technology","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Remote, United States","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":true,"secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-01-05T23:21:41.904+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Remote","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"United States"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/confluent/95960e5a-c192-4691-ac3d-c7e292e28550","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/confluent/95960e5a-c192-4691-ac3d-c7e292e28550/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.
The Business Systems team manages the backbone of our company’s operations. We oversee the core platforms that drive our business: Salesforce, NetSuite, and Zendesk. Our goal is to modernize this stack by integrating practical AI solutions that automate manual workflows and improve data accessibility for our internal teams
We are looking for a hands-on AI Architect to deliver technical designs and implementations of internal AI tools.
This is a hybrid role where you will act as a software architect, a lead engineer, and a technical partner to the business. You will be responsible for taking vague business problems and turning them into reliable, secure AI software solutions. You will be instrumental in defining the architecture and writing the code that runs in production.
System Architecture & Integration
Design for Action: Build AI integrations that do more than just summarize text. Design systems that can securely read from and write back to our core platforms (e.g., updating a record in Salesforce or drafting a response in Zendesk).
Secure Data Flow: Architect the integration layer between external LLM providers (Google, Anthropic, OpenAI) and internal data. Ensure all data retrieval is governed by strict permissions so users are only able to access data they are authorized to see.
Scalability: Design a model-agnostic inference layer that allows us to switch between models based on performance and cost requirements.
Hands-On Development
Backend Engineering: Write production-ready code using modern agent frameworks (ADK, LangChain). This is a technical role that requires coding.
Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG): Implement robust RAG pipelines to ground AI responses in company data. This includes managing vector databases and optimizing search strategies (hybrid search, reranking) to ensure accuracy.
Deployment: Set up the CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure required to deploy and maintain these services in a cloud environment.
Quality & Governance
Evaluation: Move beyond \"eye-balling\" results. Implement automated testing frameworks to measure response accuracy, latency, and costs before deploying changes.
Data Privacy: Ensure strict handling of PII and adherence to enterprise security standards. You will be the gatekeeper for how sensitive data is exposed to LLMs.
Stakeholder Partnership
Requirements Gathering: Partner with leaders in Sales, Marketing, and Support to identify high-impact automation opportunities. Translate business needs into technical specifications.
Technical Experience:
Software Engineering: 8+ years of experience in software development with strong proficiency in Python and API design (REST).
Applied AI: 2+ years of experience building LLM-powered applications or agents (using libraries like LangChain or ADK).
Data Engineering: Experience with Vector Databases (e.g., Pinecone, pgvector) and building pipelines to process unstructured text.
Cloud Infrastructure: Hands-on experience deploying services on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
Integration & Business Skills:
Enterprise Platforms: Proven experience integrating custom applications with SaaS platforms like Salesforce, NetSuite, or Zendesk. You understand their data models and API constraints.
Communication: Ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and collaborate effectively with product managers and business analysts.
Hands-on experience with GCP Vertex AI features and technologies (Agent Engine, RAG Engine etc)
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 TEAM:\n\nThe Business Systems team manages the backbone of our company’s operations. We oversee the core platforms that drive our business: Salesforce, NetSuite, and Zendesk. 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This includes managing vector databases and optimizing search strategies (hybrid search, reranking) to ensure accuracy.\n\n - Deployment: Set up the CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure required to deploy and maintain these services in a cloud environment.\n\nQuality & Governance\n\n - Evaluation: Move beyond \"eye-balling\" results. Implement automated testing frameworks to measure response accuracy, latency, and costs before deploying changes.\n\n - Data Privacy: Ensure strict handling of PII and adherence to enterprise security standards. You will be the gatekeeper for how sensitive data is exposed to LLMs.\n\nStakeholder Partnership\n\n - Requirements Gathering: Partner with leaders in Sales, Marketing, and Support to identify high-impact automation opportunities. 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You understand their data models and API constraints.\n\n - Communication: Ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and collaborate effectively with product managers and business analysts.\n\n\nWHAT GIVES YOU AN EDGE:\n\n - Hands-on experience with GCP Vertex AI features and technologies (Agent Engine, RAG Engine etc)\n\n\nREADY TO BUILD WHAT'S NEXT? LET’S GET IN MOTION.\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\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 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\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\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\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\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\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.
Applications Engineering powers the organization’s central nervous system, enabling scalable, data-driven platforms that transform business insights into impactful actions. We are seeking an accomplished Senior Software Engineer with deep backend engineering expertise to design, build, and operate enterprise-grade distributed systems.
This role is ideal for engineers who bring strong problem-solving skills, system design experience, and the ability to collaborate effectively across backend, UI, product, and platform teams. Exposure to modern UI technologies is a plus for delivering end-to-end solutions.
Design and implement scalable, high-performance backend services using Golang
Architect and develop microservices and APIs that support mission-critical applications
Collaborate with Product Managers, UI engineers, and other backend engineers to deliver reliable, end-to-end features
Design and deliver applications using Golang, PostgreSQL, Kafka, and related technologies
Ensure application security, reliability, observability, and compliance with best practices
Optimize services for performance, scalability, and fault tolerance
Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and architectural decisions
Mentor junior engineers and contribute to a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related technical field
Minimum 7 years of professional software development experience, with strong hands-on expertise in Golang
Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and system design, with excellent problem-solving skills
Proven experience in designing, developing, and consuming RESTful APIs (gRPC is a plus)
Solid working knowledge of SQL databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL; exposure to NoSQL databases is a plus
Experience working with Kafka or other messaging/event-streaming platforms
Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
Proficiency with Docker, Kubernetes, and modern CI/CD practices
Experience working in Agile/Scrum development environments
Experience with modern UI frameworks such as React, Angular
Working knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
Experience with backend technologies such as Java and Python
Understanding of front-end integration, performance, and responsive design principles
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\nApplications Engineering powers the organization’s central nervous system, enabling scalable, data-driven platforms that transform business insights into impactful actions. 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LET’S GET IN MOTION.\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\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.
As a Software Engineer on the Compute Platform team, you will be a key technical leader in building and evolving our next-generation, multi-tenant, cloud-native compute substrate that powers all of Confluent Cloud's diverse workloads.Our platform orchestrates workloads across thousands of Kubernetes clusters globally across all cloud service providers, providing a unified abstraction layer for scheduling, lifecycle management, and operational excellence. You'll work on critical systems including:
Multi-Cluster Workload Orchestration: Build the control plane that manages workload placement, lifecycle, and state across multiple Kubernetes clusters per region
Platform APIs & Abstractions: Design and evolve APIs that provide clean abstractions for polyglot workload management across diverse compute needs
Cloud Platform Integration: Build and optimize deep integrations with the broader Confluent Cloud platform for seamless end-to-end operations
Multi-Tenancy & Security: Implement and enhance workload isolation, network policies, and secure execution environments
Observability & Operations: Drive operational excellence through monitoring integration, automated health checks, and self-healing capabilities
As a senior technical leader, you think strategically and help drive end-to-end technical delivery from customer experience to scaling internal operations. You leverage your expertise in cloud-native distributed systems to take our platform to the next level while ensuring high availability, reliability, and security for our largest enterprise customers.
Drive the overall technical charter for the Compute Platform, including multi-cluster orchestration, workload placement, and security architecture
Design and implement platform APIs and Kubernetes operators using Go to support evolving workload requirements
Work closely with product management and engineering leadership to build and drive the roadmap for Confluent's Compute Platform, enabling new business opportunities across Confluent.
Deliver high-impact initiatives in areas such as workload scheduling, disruption management, network isolation, rolling update strategies, and cross-cluster resource management
Lead technical design reviews and drive architectural decisions across organizational boundaries
Mentor and grow other engineers on the team through code reviews, pairing, and technical guidance
Own operational aspects including availability, reliability, performance monitoring, emergency response, and disaster recovery for our global compute infrastructure
8+ years of experience delivering scalable software solutions
Proven track record of leading the delivery of large-scale, highly available, low-latency systems
Deep expertise in Kubernetes including controller development, operator patterns, and multi-cluster architectures
Strong proficiency in Go with experience building production-grade distributed systems
Experience with multi-tenant platform architectures and security isolation patterns
Familiarity with gRPC, Protobuf, and API design for internal platform services
Experience with observability tools and operational excellence practices
Experience with multi-cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure) and cloud-provider integrations
Track record of providing technical leadership and mentorship
Track record of working collaboratively across teams including product management, SRE, and other engineering teams
A smart, humble, and empathetic attitude with a strong sense of teamwork
Drive and excitement about the challenges of a fast-paced, innovative software environment
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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One Data Streaming Platform.\n\n\nABOUT THE ROLE:\n\nAs a Software Engineer on the Compute Platform team, you will be a key technical leader in building and evolving our next-generation, multi-tenant, cloud-native compute substrate that powers all of Confluent Cloud's diverse workloads.Our platform orchestrates workloads across thousands of Kubernetes clusters globally across all cloud service providers, providing a unified abstraction layer for scheduling, lifecycle management, and operational excellence. You'll work on critical systems including:\n\n - Multi-Cluster Workload Orchestration: Build the control plane that manages workload placement, lifecycle, and state across multiple Kubernetes clusters per region\n\n - Platform APIs & Abstractions: Design and evolve APIs that provide clean abstractions for polyglot workload management across diverse compute needs\n\n - Cloud Platform Integration: Build and optimize deep integrations with the broader Confluent Cloud platform for seamless end-to-end operations\n\n - Multi-Tenancy & Security: Implement and enhance workload isolation, network policies, and secure execution environments\n\n - Observability & Operations: Drive operational excellence through monitoring integration, automated health checks, and self-healing capabilities\n\nAs a senior technical leader, you think strategically and help drive end-to-end technical delivery from customer experience to scaling internal operations. You leverage your expertise in cloud-native distributed systems to take our platform to the next level while ensuring high availability, reliability, and security for our largest enterprise customers.\n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL DO:\n\n - Drive the overall technical charter for the Compute Platform, including multi-cluster orchestration, workload placement, and security architecture\n\n - Design and implement platform APIs and Kubernetes operators using Go to support evolving workload requirements\n\n - Work closely with product management and engineering leadership to build and drive the roadmap for Confluent's Compute Platform, enabling new business opportunities across Confluent.\n\n - Deliver high-impact initiatives in areas such as workload scheduling, disruption management, network isolation, rolling update strategies, and cross-cluster resource management\n\n - Lead technical design reviews and drive architectural decisions across organizational boundaries\n\n - Mentor and grow other engineers on the team through code reviews, pairing, and technical guidance\n\n - Own operational aspects including availability, reliability, performance monitoring, emergency response, and disaster recovery for our global compute infrastructure\n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL BRING:\n\n - 8+ years of experience delivering scalable software solutions\n\n - Proven track record of leading the delivery of large-scale, highly available, low-latency systems\n\n - Deep expertise in Kubernetes including controller development, operator patterns, and multi-cluster architectures\n\n - Strong proficiency in Go with experience building production-grade distributed systems\n\n - Experience with multi-tenant platform architectures and security isolation patterns\n\n - Familiarity with gRPC, Protobuf, and API design for internal platform services\n\n - Experience with observability tools and operational excellence practices\n\n - Experience with multi-cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure) and cloud-provider integrations\n\n - Track record of providing technical leadership and mentorship\n\n - Track record of working collaboratively across teams including product management, SRE, and other engineering teams\n\n - A smart, humble, and empathetic attitude with a strong sense of teamwork\n\n - Drive and excitement about the challenges of a fast-paced, innovative software environment\n\n\nREADY TO BUILD WHAT'S NEXT? 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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 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.
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Analyze systemic failure patterns and design reliability improvements that prevent incident recurrence
Own Rootly configuration, workflows, and integrations with PagerDuty, Jira, Confluence, and Slack
Define and maintain SLO/SLA frameworks; use error budgets to guide reliability investments
Own standards, practices, and continuous improvement of incident response across engineering
Edit and review customer-facing incident documents (CRCAs) to ensure quality and clarity
Develop and deliver training programs; coach teams through post-mortems
Partner with engineering leaders to elevate reliability practices org-wide
10+ years of relevant experience in SRE, incident management, or reliability engineering
Cloud experience with at least one of AWS, GCP, or Azure (we run all three)
Experience navigating reliability/incident programs at 500+ engineer organizations
Deep expertise with incident management tooling (Rootly, PagerDuty, or similar)
Strong understanding of distributed systems and failure modes at scale
Deep experience with observability: metrics, logging, tracing
Kubernetes and container orchestration experience
Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and release processes
Strong written communication (design docs, runbooks, post-mortems)
Experience driving org-wide process and cultural changes
Kafka/event streaming expertise preferred, or demonstrated rapid mastery of complex systems
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\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. This role sits within Cloud Architecture and Reliability - Supportability, a horizontal team that owns reliability standards and tooling across engineering. You're the person who makes us need incident management less.\n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL DO:\n\n - Analyze systemic failure patterns and design reliability improvements that prevent incident recurrence\n\n - Own Rootly configuration, workflows, and integrations with PagerDuty, Jira, Confluence, and Slack\n\n - Define and maintain SLO/SLA frameworks; use error budgets to guide reliability investments\n\n - Own standards, practices, and continuous improvement of incident response across engineering\n\n - Edit and review customer-facing incident documents (CRCAs) to ensure quality and clarity\n\n - Develop and deliver training programs; coach teams through post-mortems\n\n - Partner with engineering leaders to elevate reliability practices org-wide\n \n \n \n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL BRING:\n\n - 10+ years of relevant experience in SRE, incident management, or reliability engineering\n\n - Cloud experience with at least one of AWS, GCP, or Azure (we run all three)\n\n - Experience navigating reliability/incident programs at 500+ engineer organizations\n\n - Deep expertise with incident management tooling (Rootly, PagerDuty, or similar)\n\n - Strong understanding of distributed systems and failure modes at scale\n\n - Deep experience with observability: metrics, logging, tracing\n\n - Kubernetes and container orchestration experience\n\n - Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and release processes\n\n - Strong written communication (design docs, runbooks, post-mortems)\n\n - Experience driving org-wide process and cultural changes\n\n - Kafka/event streaming expertise preferred, or demonstrated rapid mastery of complex systems\n\n\n\n\n\nREADY TO BUILD WHAT'S NEXT? LET’S GET IN MOTION.\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\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/.","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":"CA$225.1K – CA$264.5K • Offers Equity","scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":"CA$225.1K - CA$264.5K","compensationTiers":[{"id":"209fc0e2-5748-42e7-b182-cbe910194b7e","tierSummary":"CA$225.1K – CA$264.5K • Offers Equity","title":null,"additionalInformation":null,"components":[{"id":"c1ab1410-c596-470e-891b-5cd7d35ea98d","summary":"Offers Equity","compensationType":"EquityCashValue","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"CAD","minValue":null,"maxValue":null},{"id":"78870940-ece8-4307-850a-940207b5f068","summary":"CA$225.1K – CA$264.5K","compensationType":"Salary","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"CAD","minValue":225100,"maxValue":264500}]}],"summaryComponents":[{"compensationType":"EquityCashValue","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"CAD","minValue":null,"maxValue":null},{"compensationType":"Salary","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"CAD","minValue":225100,"maxValue":264500}]}},{"id":"8606dc2b-3ad7-4423-9cbb-c7e6df0a1ae5","title":"Staff Software Engineer - Flink Control Plane","department":"Engineering","team":"Engineering","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Remote, United States","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":true,"secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-01-15T18:31:42.191+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. 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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.
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\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\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\nREADY TO BUILD WHAT'S NEXT? LET’S GET IN MOTION.\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\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.
To realize Confluent’s enormous potential, we are looking for software engineers, at various levels, to grow our Traffic team which is responsible for building and managing the networking fabric of Confluent Cloud. Cloud networking is a strategic investment area for Confluent with the potential to impact the company’s top and bottom line. The data plane area in the Traffic team focuses on the performance, security, reliability, and cost optimizations for all traffic that ingresses and egresses a customer's Kafka cluster on Confluent Cloud.
We are looking for someone with an interest in building large-scale distributed systems, with a focus on building and managing network data planes for containerized workloads in the cloud. The ideal candidate would be passionate about network data plane performance, scale, cost optimizations, and building robust software.
Build the software underpinning the mission-critical Confluent Cloud network data plane platform. 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.
Build upon open source software to deliver business impact.
Troubleshoot issues and improve ops for complex technical stack that spans all the 3 clouds and includes microservices, containers, and virtualization.
2-5 years of relevant cloud infrastructure/cloud networking experience
Experience/knowledge with public clouds (AWS, Azure or GCP)
Practical experience with Kubernetes and containerization technologies
Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development
Experience building and operating large-scale systems
Solid understanding at a systems level (disk, network, operating systems, etc)
Proficiency in C++, Go, Python, or other statically typed languages
A self-starter with the ability to work effectively in teams
BS, MS in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience
A Strong networking background combined with your software engineering 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\nTo realize Confluent’s enormous potential, we are looking for software engineers, at various levels, to grow our Traffic team which is responsible for building and managing the networking fabric of Confluent Cloud. Cloud networking is a strategic investment area for Confluent with the potential to impact the company’s top and bottom line. The data plane area in the Traffic team focuses on the performance, security, reliability, and cost optimizations for all traffic that ingresses and egresses a customer's Kafka cluster on Confluent Cloud.\n\nWe are looking for someone with an interest in building large-scale distributed systems, with a focus on building and managing network data planes for containerized workloads in the cloud. The ideal candidate would be passionate about network data plane performance, scale, cost optimizations, and building robust software.\n\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL DO:\n\n - Build the software underpinning the mission-critical Confluent Cloud network data plane platform. 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 - Build upon open source software to deliver business impact.\n\n - Troubleshoot issues and improve ops for complex technical stack that spans all the 3 clouds and includes microservices, containers, and virtualization.\n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL BRING:\n\n - 2-5 years of relevant cloud infrastructure/cloud networking experience\n\n - Experience/knowledge with public clouds (AWS, Azure or GCP)\n\n - Practical experience with Kubernetes and containerization technologies\n\n - Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development\n\n - Experience building and operating large-scale systems\n\n - Solid understanding at a systems level (disk, network, operating systems, etc)\n\n - Proficiency in C++, Go, Python, or other statically typed languages\n\n - A self-starter with the ability to work effectively in teams\n\n - BS, MS in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience\n\n\nWHAT GIVES YOU AN EDGE:\n\n - A Strong networking background combined with your software engineering experience\n \n\n\nREADY TO BUILD WHAT'S NEXT? LET’S GET IN MOTION.\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\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/.","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":"$164.3K – $193K • Offers Equity","scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":"$164.3K - $193K","compensationTiers":[{"id":"d614eef7-7aa5-4c64-89e1-e5ab3e136d4c","tierSummary":"$164.3K – $193K • Offers Equity","title":null,"additionalInformation":null,"components":[{"id":"4fdf8a50-2d45-41d7-9e94-f5772c50ca44","summary":"Offers Equity","compensationType":"EquityCashValue","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"USD","minValue":null,"maxValue":null},{"id":"f8a2884c-e2f1-4a2d-b983-f7402bcb43d6","summary":"$164.3K – $193K","compensationType":"Salary","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"USD","minValue":164300,"maxValue":193000}]}],"summaryComponents":[{"compensationType":"EquityCashValue","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"USD","minValue":null,"maxValue":null},{"compensationType":"Salary","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"USD","minValue":164300,"maxValue":193000}]}},{"id":"7ea0f7ad-2445-4fac-a33c-fbfc164d5181","title":"Staff Security Engineer II","department":"Engineering","team":"Engineering","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"IN Remote India","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":false,"secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-02-09T09:57:53.522+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":null,"workplaceType":null,"address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"Karnātaka","addressCountry":"India","addressLocality":"Bengaluru"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/confluent/7ea0f7ad-2445-4fac-a33c-fbfc164d5181","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/confluent/7ea0f7ad-2445-4fac-a33c-fbfc164d5181/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.
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\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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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.\n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL DO:\n\n - 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.\n\n - 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.\n\n - 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.\n\n - Architect and drive the roadmap for security automation, building scalable software security tooling to transform product security operations and vulnerability management practices.\n\n - Design and lead the deployment of automation and orchestration frameworks that integrate security seamlessly into the cloud-native deployment pipeline.\n\n - Proactively identify new vulnerability classes, lead research initiatives and orchestrate complex table-top exercises to keep the organization ahead of the evolving threat landscape.\n\n - Strategically identify and deploy advanced technology controls to maximize observability and harden key attack surfaces across the ecosystem.\n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL BRING:\n\n - 10–12 years of hands-on Application Security experience, who can drive measurable security improvements across large-scale, distributed systems and global engineering organizations.\n\n - 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.\n\n - Ability to partner as a trusted peer with Engineering and Product leadership to embed security into the core architecture of the organization.\n\n - Ability to lead technical investigation and response to application security incidents while driving preventive improvements through architecture and automation.\n\n - 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.\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\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\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.
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. 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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\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\nREADY TO BUILD WHAT'S NEXT? LET’S GET IN MOTION.\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\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/.","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":"$163.9K – $192.6K • Offers Equity","scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":"$163.9K - $192.6K","compensationTiers":[{"id":"606bf0d6-61e5-4277-b290-db05527a17e1","tierSummary":"$163.9K – $192.6K • Offers Equity","title":null,"additionalInformation":null,"components":[{"id":"20696d46-2582-482e-9a41-507e47466c3b","summary":"$163.9K – $192.6K","compensationType":"Salary","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"USD","minValue":163900,"maxValue":192600},{"id":"fc2014c3-9252-44d4-8a85-cf71eeb865b0","summary":"Offers Equity","compensationType":"EquityCashValue","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"USD","minValue":null,"maxValue":null}]}],"summaryComponents":[{"compensationType":"Salary","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"USD","minValue":163900,"maxValue":192600},{"compensationType":"EquityCashValue","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"USD","minValue":null,"maxValue":null}]}},{"id":"6f9f7932-2647-4562-b10b-fe70eb27d007","title":"Manager II, Engineering – Secure Compute Platform","department":"Engineering","team":"Engineering","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Remote, United States","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":true,"secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-02-20T15:20:31.933+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Remote","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"United States"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/confluent/6f9f7932-2647-4562-b10b-fe70eb27d007","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/confluent/6f9f7932-2647-4562-b10b-fe70eb27d007/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.
We seek a hands-on engineering leader to lead a high-performing and dynamic team responsible for building, maintaining, and scaling the foundational secure compute layer of Confluent Cloud. The team is dedicated to empowering our customers and internal product teams by providing essential building blocks—including isolation, identity, and networking—that allow for the safe execution of untrusted code and data processing across AWS, Azure, and GCP. As Confluent grows its product portfolio, this secure infrastructure becomes increasingly vital in attracting and retaining our highly regulated, multi-tenant customer base, driving product adoption, and fueling overall company growth. Your leadership will be critical to delivering platform features and polyglot container-based runtime, ensuring world-class quality, security, and reliability across thousands of clusters globally. You will guide the team in solving some of the most challenging problems in distributed systems, effectively prioritizing tasks and architectural decisions to align with long-term company goals. In this role, you will define a multi-year roadmap that balances security with cost-efficiency. Your leadership will foster a collaborative environment, drive continuous innovation in cloud-native infrastructure, and maintain the high development and management standards necessary to support Confluent’s mission-critical workloads.
Lead the strategic vision and multi-year roadmap for the Secure Compute Platform, aligning foundational infrastructure with company growth goals.
Provide hands-on technical leadership in distributed systems, Kubernetes, and container-based runtimes to ensure world-class security and scale.
Partner with Product, Security, and Cloud Infrastructure teams to define architectural standards and deliver seamless, end-to-end solutions.
Cultivate a culture of technical excellence and ownership within a high-performing and inclusive engineering team. Lead, mentor, and scale a team of 6-8 engineers.
Drive the exploration and adoption of AI-driven tools and workflows to accelerate team velocity and enhance operational efficiency.
Own the execution of critical platform building blocks—including isolation, identity, and networking—to meet the needs of a global, multi-tenant customer base.
Champion operational hygiene and observability, maintaining high standards for reliability and performance across thousands of global clusters.
Influence overall domain health by driving platform adoption and ensuring secure compute interfaces meet the needs of developer-centric users.
10+ years of experience in software development and 3+ years in management.
Experience in building and designing resilient systems at scale using hyperscale CSPs (AWS, Azure, GCP), with a proven track record of “seeing around corners” to reduce complexity and create critical enduring technical foundations.
Demonstrated expertise in building and scaling secure, high-performance distributed systems, with deep technical proficiency in Kubernetes, container internals, and lower-level systems.
Understanding API governance frameworks and best practices for ensuring API consistency, security, and reliability.
Ability to influence the team, peers, and upper management using effective communication and collaborative techniques.
Ability to hire while ensuring a high hiring bar, motivate engineers, coach/mentor, and manage performance.
An excellent track record of timely shipping features, a sense of urgency, an aggressive mindset toward achieving results, and excellent prioritization skills.
Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
Proven track record in contributing to or maintaining foundational open-source projects within the cloud-native or distributed systems ecosystem (e.g., CNCF, Kubernetes).
Demonstrated ability to build and foster a strong engineering community while driving the adoption of innovative platform technologies, such as AI-driven infrastructure automation.
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 seek a hands-on engineering leader to lead a high-performing and dynamic team responsible for building, maintaining, and scaling the foundational secure compute layer of Confluent Cloud. The team is dedicated to empowering our customers and internal product teams by providing essential building blocks—including isolation, identity, and networking—that allow for the safe execution of untrusted code and data processing across AWS, Azure, and GCP. As Confluent grows its product portfolio, this secure infrastructure becomes increasingly vital in attracting and retaining our highly regulated, multi-tenant customer base, driving product adoption, and fueling overall company growth. Your leadership will be critical to delivering platform features and polyglot container-based runtime, ensuring world-class quality, security, and reliability across thousands of clusters globally. You will guide the team in solving some of the most challenging problems in distributed systems, effectively prioritizing tasks and architectural decisions to align with long-term company goals. In this role, you will define a multi-year roadmap that balances security with cost-efficiency. Your leadership will foster a collaborative environment, drive continuous innovation in cloud-native infrastructure, and maintain the high development and management standards necessary to support Confluent’s mission-critical workloads.\n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL DO:\n\n - Lead the strategic vision and multi-year roadmap for the Secure Compute Platform, aligning foundational infrastructure with company growth goals.\n\n - Provide hands-on technical leadership in distributed systems, Kubernetes, and container-based runtimes to ensure world-class security and scale.\n\n - Partner with Product, Security, and Cloud Infrastructure teams to define architectural standards and deliver seamless, end-to-end solutions.\n\n - Cultivate a culture of technical excellence and ownership within a high-performing and inclusive engineering team. Lead, mentor, and scale a team of 6-8 engineers.\n\n - Drive the exploration and adoption of AI-driven tools and workflows to accelerate team velocity and enhance operational efficiency.\n\n - Own the execution of critical platform building blocks—including isolation, identity, and networking—to meet the needs of a global, multi-tenant customer base.\n\n - Champion operational hygiene and observability, maintaining high standards for reliability and performance across thousands of global clusters.\n\n - Influence overall domain health by driving platform adoption and ensuring secure compute interfaces meet the needs of developer-centric users.\n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL BRING:\n\n - 10+ years of experience in software development and 3+ years in management.\n\n - Experience in building and designing resilient systems at scale using hyperscale CSPs (AWS, Azure, GCP), with a proven track record of “seeing around corners” to reduce complexity and create critical enduring technical foundations.\n\n - Demonstrated expertise in building and scaling secure, high-performance distributed systems, with deep technical proficiency in Kubernetes, container internals, and lower-level systems.\n\n - Understanding API governance frameworks and best practices for ensuring API consistency, security, and reliability.\n\n - Ability to influence the team, peers, and upper management using effective communication and collaborative techniques.\n\n - Ability to hire while ensuring a high hiring bar, motivate engineers, coach/mentor, and manage performance.\n\n - An excellent track record of timely shipping features, a sense of urgency, an aggressive mindset toward achieving results, and excellent prioritization skills.\n\n - Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience\n\n\nWHAT GIVES YOU AN EDGE:\n\n - Proven track record in contributing to or maintaining foundational open-source projects within the cloud-native or distributed systems ecosystem (e.g., CNCF, Kubernetes).\n\n - Demonstrated ability to build and foster a strong engineering community while driving the adoption of innovative platform technologies, such as AI-driven infrastructure automation.\n\n\nREADY TO BUILD WHAT'S NEXT? LET’S GET IN MOTION.\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\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.
The Business Technology team builds the internal applications that act as Confluent’s central nervous system for revenue, forecasting, and operational efficiency. We deliver strategic internal web applications that power deal lifecycle workflows, quoting, pricing and tiering, and planning tools used by Sales, Finance, and Customer teams.
Our products enable data driven decision making before resources are committed, helping stakeholders plan proactively, optimize usage, and manage spend with confidence. The team focuses on high business impact internal–facing applications with mission critical outcomes for growth, efficiency, and scale.
We are seeking an exceptional Staff Software Engineer who combines deep technical expertise with the ability to shape architecture, influence cross functional partners, and drive open ended initiatives across teams. You will own the end to end design and delivery of complex systems, identify high leverage problems, and set patterns that other engineers follow.
This role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving real business problems with pragmatic, maintainable solutions more than building at massive consumer scale, and who can operate comfortably from hands-on implementation through technical strategy and stakeholder leadership.
Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of high impact internal web applications that support deal lifecycle, pricing and quoting, forecasting, and planning workflows.
Own complex, cross team technical initiatives from problem framing through design, implementation, rollout, and long term evolution.
Identify and drive high leverage technical investments that improve reliability, performance, developer velocity, and user experience across multiple applications and services.
Design and evolve microservices, APIs, and data models that integrate with systems such as Salesforce, billing, data platforms, and analytics, ensuring robust contracts and clear boundaries.
Partner closely with Product Managers and business stakeholders to translate ambiguous business problems into clear technical strategies, roadmaps, and deliverables over multi quarter horizons.
Provide technical leadership and mentoring for senior and mid level engineers, raising the bar on design quality, code quality, observability, and operational excellence across the team.
Champion engineering best practices including testing, performance engineering, incident readiness, and secure coding, and ensure they are consistently applied in your area of ownership.
Collaborate with peer teams to define cohesive end to end solutions and shared platforms rather than point integrations.
Contribute to and help refine the technical strategy, architecture principles, and career standards for the Commit Estimator and broader Application & AI Engineering domains.
Contribute to modernize the existing application and platform for scalability, availability, speed of delivering software and enabling AI capabilities for End Users .
12+ years of professional software engineering experience, including substantial time as a technical architect on complex, business critical systems.
Deep hands-on expertise in full stack development using languages such as Go, Java, or similar, building services and APIs and modern JavaScript front ends (e.g., React).
Strong experience with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL) and comfort working with event streaming or messaging technologies such as Kafka.
Proven track record of architecting and delivering internal or B2B applications that support complex business workflows with high reliability and usability.
Demonstrated ability to decompose ambiguous, cross team problems into clear technical designs and milestones, and to ship high quality solutions on time for multi quarter initiatives.
Experience improving developer productivity and operational excellence through better abstractions, tooling, automation, and thoughtful refactoring of legacy systems.
Strong system design, data structures, and algorithms foundation, with an emphasis on pragmatic trade offs and simplicity in real world systems.
Comfortable operating in a cloud native environment (AWS or similar), using containers, CI/CD, and modern observability tooling to run and operate services in production.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a track record of influencing stakeholders at multiple levels and mentoring other engineers.
Growth mindset, ownership mentality, and a bias for action in pursuit of measurable impact on revenue, efficiency, and customer 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.
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We deliver strategic internal web applications that power deal lifecycle workflows, quoting, pricing and tiering, and planning tools used by Sales, Finance, and Customer teams.\n\nOur products enable data driven decision making before resources are committed, helping stakeholders plan proactively, optimize usage, and manage spend with confidence. The team focuses on high business impact internal–facing applications with mission critical outcomes for growth, efficiency, and scale.\n\n\nABOUT THE ROLE\n\nWe are seeking an exceptional Staff Software Engineer who combines deep technical expertise with the ability to shape architecture, influence cross functional partners, and drive open ended initiatives across teams. You will own the end to end design and delivery of complex systems, identify high leverage problems, and set patterns that other engineers follow.\n\nThis role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving real business problems with pragmatic, maintainable solutions more than building at massive consumer scale, and who can operate comfortably from hands-on implementation through technical strategy and stakeholder leadership.\n\n\nWHAT YOU’LL DO\n\n - Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of high impact internal web applications that support deal lifecycle, pricing and quoting, forecasting, and planning workflows.\n\n - Own complex, cross team technical initiatives from problem framing through design, implementation, rollout, and long term evolution.\n\n - Identify and drive high leverage technical investments that improve reliability, performance, developer velocity, and user experience across multiple applications and services.\n\n - Design and evolve microservices, APIs, and data models that integrate with systems such as Salesforce, billing, data platforms, and analytics, ensuring robust contracts and clear boundaries.\n\n - Partner closely with Product Managers and business stakeholders to translate ambiguous business problems into clear technical strategies, roadmaps, and deliverables over multi quarter horizons.\n\n - Provide technical leadership and mentoring for senior and mid level engineers, raising the bar on design quality, code quality, observability, and operational excellence across the team.\n\n - Champion engineering best practices including testing, performance engineering, incident readiness, and secure coding, and ensure they are consistently applied in your area of ownership.\n\n - Collaborate with peer teams to define cohesive end to end solutions and shared platforms rather than point integrations.\n\n - Contribute to and help refine the technical strategy, architecture principles, and career standards for the Commit Estimator and broader Application & AI Engineering domains.\n\n - Contribute to modernize the existing application and platform for scalability, availability, speed of delivering software and enabling AI capabilities for End Users .\n\n\nWHAT MAKES YOU SUCCESSFUL\n\n - 12+ years of professional software engineering experience, including substantial time as a technical architect on complex, business critical systems.\n\n - Deep hands-on expertise in full stack development using languages such as Go, Java, or similar, building services and APIs and modern JavaScript front ends (e.g., React).\n\n - Strong experience with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL) and comfort working with event streaming or messaging technologies such as Kafka.\n\n - Proven track record of architecting and delivering internal or B2B applications that support complex business workflows with high reliability and usability.\n\n - Demonstrated ability to decompose ambiguous, cross team problems into clear technical designs and milestones, and to ship high quality solutions on time for multi quarter initiatives.\n\n - Experience improving developer productivity and operational excellence through better abstractions, tooling, automation, and thoughtful refactoring of legacy systems.\n\n - Strong system design, data structures, and algorithms foundation, with an emphasis on pragmatic trade offs and simplicity in real world systems.\n\n - Comfortable operating in a cloud native environment (AWS or similar), using containers, CI/CD, and modern observability tooling to run and operate services in production.\n\n - Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a track record of influencing stakeholders at multiple levels and mentoring other engineers.\n\n - Growth mindset, ownership mentality, and a bias for action in pursuit of measurable impact on revenue, efficiency, and customer experience.\n\n\nREADY TO BUILD WHAT'S NEXT? 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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.
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One Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.
Backend engineers at Confluent work on a set of diverse and complex challenges such as building foundational cloud frameworks and services that power all components of the platform in the Cloud. We are building a new multi-tenant, multi-cloud, polyglot, cloud native compute substrate to enable new business opportunities across Confluent Cloud (including Connect, Apache Flink, Kafka and more) . As a senior software engineer, 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 new Compute Platform, and you make sure that we have a highly-available, resilient and secure offering that our largest customers can rely on.
Build mission-critical backend services that deliver value to our customers. You will play a crucial role in architecting, designing, developing and operationalizing high performance, scalable, reliable and resilient services
Design, develop, and maintain Kafka Connect connectors for integrating with databases and data warehouses (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, Snowflake).
Work with open source technologies like Debezium and Kafka Connect to implement Change Data Capture (CDC) connectors.
Troubleshoot and debug technical issues inside a deep and complex technical stack that includes microservices, containers, and virtualization
Ensure operational readiness of the services and meet the availability and performance SLA commitments to our customers
A strategic engineer who constantly thinks of process and operational improvements
8+ years industry experience designing, building, scaling and supporting backend systems in production with a solid grasp on good software engineering practices such as code reviews, deep focus on quality, and documentation.
Strong programming and algorithmic skills. Proficiency in a major programming language, e.g. Java, Go, C / C++, Python, etc.
Experience configuring and deploying distributed systems and microservices using modern tools, e.g. Kubernetes, Helm, etc.
Strong focus on project delivery and communication skills.
Experience in driving operational excellence for large, production services.
A strong sense of customer centricity, teamwork, technical leadership and mentorship and are excited about team and company success.
BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
Proven track record of delivering large-scale, highly available, low latency, high quality systems.
Hands-on technical expertise in large scale systems engineering or distributed systems.
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.
The Confluent Metrics Platform team's mission is to provide a best-in-class observability foundation that enables customers to monitor, analyze, and optimize their real-time data streaming infrastructure at cloud scale. Our charter is to deliver Realtime Metrics and Insights through the Confluent Cloud Metrics API, empowering businesses to make data-driven decisions about their streaming workloads.
We are a critical component of Confluent's observability systems, serving as the primary interface through which customers understand the health, performance, and behavior of their Kafka clusters, connectors, ksqlDB applications, and Schema Registry deployments. Our technology powers monitoring dashboards, alerting systems, and capacity planning tools for thousands of customers running mission-critical streaming applications.
As a Senior Manager, Engineering for the Metrics Platform team, you will build, lead, and grow a high-performing engineering organization responsible for one of Confluent's most critical services. This role demands a unique blend of deep technical expertise and strong leadership—you must drive both the strategic vision for a large-scale, real-time analytics platform AND execute flawlessly on operational excellence.
Your immediate focus will be on:
Scaling for Growth: Leading the technical strategy to scale our metrics infrastructure to handle 10x data volume over the next 2 years
API Evolution: Driving the roadmap for new metrics datasets, query capabilities, and integration patterns
Operational Excellence: Ensuring 99.99%+ availability, sub-second query performance, and seamless incident response
Cross-Team Collaboration: Partnering with multiple teams across Telemetry, Cloud Infrastructure, and Product to deliver end-to-end observability solutions
Define and execute the multi-year technical roadmap for the Metrics Platform, including Data infrastructure cluster evolution, data retention strategies, and query optimization
Build, mentor, and grow a world-class engineering team
Partner with Product Management to define and prioritize the Metrics API roadmap based on customer needs and business impact
Align with Confluent's broader observability strategy across Cloud and Platform offerings
Establish metrics and KPIs to measure system performance, system reliability, and customer satisfaction
14+ years of overall experience in software development and engineering
4+ years of engineering management experience, leading productive, high-performing teams
Experience operating large-scale distributed systems in production environments (preferably cloud-native)
Leadership & Management Skills
Demonstrated ability to hire and retain top engineering talent, provide impactful coaching, and drive high-performance results.
Proven track record of shipping features consistently and meeting aggressive deadlines with a high degree of urgency.
Exceptional prioritization skills with the ability to balance short-term execution with a long-term strategic vision for technical evolution.
Exceptional communication and collaboration skills, with a focus on building a positive, inclusive team culture aligned with organizational goals.
Technical Expertise
Solid fundamentals in distributed systems design, replication protocols, and high-availability production operations.
Deep familiarity with Kafka or similar high-scale event streaming platforms (Pulsar, Flink, etc.) in cloud environments.
Experience operating complex architectures across large public clouds (AWS, GCP, Azure) or private cloud-native infrastructures.
Strong engineering background with a hands-on approach to technology and a passion for architectural deep-dives.
Direct experience with Apache Druid in production at scale
Familiarity with Prometheus, OpenMetrics, or OpenTelemetry ecosystems
Experience in SaaS or platform engineering organizations
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 METRICS PLATFORM TEAM\n\nThe Confluent Metrics Platform team's mission is to provide a best-in-class observability foundation that enables customers to monitor, analyze, and optimize their real-time data streaming infrastructure at cloud scale. Our charter is to deliver Realtime Metrics and Insights through the Confluent Cloud Metrics API, empowering businesses to make data-driven decisions about their streaming workloads.\n\nWe are a critical component of Confluent's observability systems, serving as the primary interface through which customers understand the health, performance, and behavior of their Kafka clusters, connectors, ksqlDB applications, and Schema Registry deployments. Our technology powers monitoring dashboards, alerting systems, and capacity planning tools for thousands of customers running mission-critical streaming applications.\n\n\nABOUT THE ROLE\n\nAs a Senior Manager, Engineering for the Metrics Platform team, you will build, lead, and grow a high-performing engineering organization responsible for one of Confluent's most critical services. This role demands a unique blend of deep technical expertise and strong leadership—you must drive both the strategic vision for a large-scale, real-time analytics platform AND execute flawlessly on operational excellence.\n\nYour immediate focus will be on:\n\n 1. Scaling for Growth: Leading the technical strategy to scale our metrics infrastructure to handle 10x data volume over the next 2 years\n\n 2. API Evolution: Driving the roadmap for new metrics datasets, query capabilities, and integration patterns\n\n 3. Operational Excellence: Ensuring 99.99%+ availability, sub-second query performance, and seamless incident response\n\n 4. Cross-Team Collaboration: Partnering with multiple teams across Telemetry, Cloud Infrastructure, and Product to deliver end-to-end observability solutions\n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL DO\n\n\nTECHNICAL STRATEGY & ARCHITECTURE\n\n - Define and execute the multi-year technical roadmap for the Metrics Platform, including Data infrastructure cluster evolution, data retention strategies, and query optimization\n\n - Build, mentor, and grow a world-class engineering team\n\n - Partner with Product Management to define and prioritize the Metrics API roadmap based on customer needs and business impact\n\n - Align with Confluent's broader observability strategy across Cloud and Platform offerings\n\n - Establish metrics and KPIs to measure system performance, system reliability, and customer satisfaction\n\n\nWHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR\n\n - 14+ years of overall experience in software development and engineering\n\n - 4+ years of engineering management experience, leading productive, high-performing teams\n\n - Experience operating large-scale distributed systems in production environments (preferably cloud-native)\n\n - Leadership & Management Skills\n \n - Demonstrated ability to hire and retain top engineering talent, provide impactful coaching, and drive high-performance results.\n \n - Proven track record of shipping features consistently and meeting aggressive deadlines with a high degree of urgency.\n \n - Exceptional prioritization skills with the ability to balance short-term execution with a long-term strategic vision for technical evolution.\n \n - Exceptional communication and collaboration skills, with a focus on building a positive, inclusive team culture aligned with organizational goals.\n\n - Technical Expertise\n \n - Solid fundamentals in distributed systems design, replication protocols, and high-availability production operations.\n \n - Deep familiarity with Kafka or similar high-scale event streaming platforms (Pulsar, Flink, etc.) in cloud environments.\n \n - Experience operating complex architectures across large public clouds (AWS, GCP, Azure) or private cloud-native infrastructures.\n \n - Strong engineering background with a hands-on approach to technology and a passion for architectural deep-dives.\n\n\nNICE TO HAVE\n\n - Direct experience with Apache Druid in production at scale\n\n - Familiarity with Prometheus, OpenMetrics, or OpenTelemetry ecosystems\n\n - Experience in SaaS or platform engineering organizations\n\n\nREADY TO BUILD WHAT'S NEXT? LET’S GET IN MOTION.\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\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/.","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":null,"scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":null,"compensationTiers":[],"summaryComponents":[]}},{"id":"1946b144-eaa5-482f-b235-63cc06104ecc","title":"Senior Product Manager, Cloud Networking ","department":"Product","team":"Product","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Remote, United States","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":true,"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. 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.
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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\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\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\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\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\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.
We are looking for a Staff Product Manager to own the Flink Cloud Platform product areas within Confluent Cloud. This role is critical to making our Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink the trusted choice for large enterprises with stringent security, compliance, and operational requirements.
You will be the product owner for capabilities that enable enterprise adoption of Flink at scale, including encryption (BYOK, CSFLE), disaster recovery, identity and access management integrations, observability, and platform infrastructure. You'll drive the roadmap from strategy through delivery, working directly with customers, engineering, design, field teams, and cross-functional partners across Confluent.
Own the Flink Cloud Platform roadmap: Define and drive the product strategy and roadmap for enterprise-grade Flink capabilities including data-at-rest encryption (BYOK), client-side field-level encryption, managed disaster recovery, access controls, and audit logging notably.
Own the Flink Cloud Platform roadmap: Drive platform-level capabilities such as Flink compute pool management, workspace catalog design, and integration with Confluent Cloud's broader infrastructure (networking, identity, encryption platforms)
Drive enterprise customer adoption: Partner closely with field teams and strategic customers (including top-tier financial services and regulated industries) to understand requirements, close product gaps, and accelerate enterprise Flink adoption
Write product specifications: Author clear, precise PRD documents that translate complex customer and business requirements into well-scoped engineering deliverables
Collaborate cross-functionally: Work across security, identity, networking, and storage teams to ensure Flink integrates seamlessly with Confluent Cloud's enterprise capabilities.
Influence product strategy: Contribute to the overall Confluent Cloud Flink and DSP product strategy, identifying external market trends, competitive dynamics, and new opportunities
Measure success: Define and track key metrics for enterprise Flink adoption, working with data and analytics to inform prioritization decisions
Educate and enable: Partner with PMM, docs, and field enablement to ensure Confluent's sales and customer success teams can effectively position and support Flink enterprise capabilities
8+ years of product management experience, with significant experience in cloud infrastructure, data platforms, or distributed systems
Deep understanding of enterprise security and compliance requirements, including encryption, key management (BYOK/CMK),
Experience with stream processing or real-time data systems — familiarity with Apache Flink, Apache Kafka, or similar technologies is strongly preferred
Strong technical acumen, ability to engage deeply with engineering on system design, understand distributed systems trade-offs, and write precise technical specifications
Track record of shipping enterprise-grade cloud products in partnership with engineering teams, ideally in a fully managed / SaaS environment
Excellent cross-functional collaboration skills, demonstrated ability to align and drive outcomes across multiple engineering teams, security, field, and go-to-market functions
Customer empathy and field engagement experience, comfortable engaging directly with enterprise customers, understanding their technical and business needs, and translating feedback into product direction
Strong written and verbal communication — ability to author compelling strategy documents, PRDs, and presentations for technical and non-technical audiences
Data-driven decision making, uses quantitative metrics and analytics to prioritize, measure success, and build consensus
Experience with cloud service providers (AWS, GCP, Azure) and their security/encryption ecosystems
Familiarity with Apache Flink internals (state management, checkpointing, SQL, etc.)
Experience in regulated industries (financial services, healthcare, government)
Background in open-source communities or developer platforms
Experience with pricing and packaging for cloud-native products
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 Product Manager to own the Flink Cloud Platform product areas within Confluent Cloud. This role is critical to making our Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink the trusted choice for large enterprises with stringent security, compliance, and operational requirements.\n\nYou will be the product owner for capabilities that enable enterprise adoption of Flink at scale, including encryption (BYOK, CSFLE), disaster recovery, identity and access management integrations, observability, and platform infrastructure. You'll drive the roadmap from strategy through delivery, working directly with customers, engineering, design, field teams, and cross-functional partners across Confluent.\n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL DO:\n\n - Own the Flink Cloud Platform roadmap: Define and drive the product strategy and roadmap for enterprise-grade Flink capabilities including data-at-rest encryption (BYOK), client-side field-level encryption, managed disaster recovery, access controls, and audit logging notably.\n\n - Own the Flink Cloud Platform roadmap: Drive platform-level capabilities such as Flink compute pool management, workspace catalog design, and integration with Confluent Cloud's broader infrastructure (networking, identity, encryption platforms)\n\n - Drive enterprise customer adoption: Partner closely with field teams and strategic customers (including top-tier financial services and regulated industries) to understand requirements, close product gaps, and accelerate enterprise Flink adoption\n\n - Write product specifications: Author clear, precise PRD documents that translate complex customer and business requirements into well-scoped engineering deliverables\n\n - Collaborate cross-functionally: Work across security, identity, networking, and storage teams to ensure Flink integrates seamlessly with Confluent Cloud's enterprise capabilities.\n\n - Influence product strategy: Contribute to the overall Confluent Cloud Flink and DSP product strategy, identifying external market trends, competitive dynamics, and new opportunities\n\n - Measure success: Define and track key metrics for enterprise Flink adoption, working with data and analytics to inform prioritization decisions\n\n - Educate and enable: Partner with PMM, docs, and field enablement to ensure Confluent's sales and customer success teams can effectively position and support Flink enterprise capabilities\n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL BRING:\n\n - 8+ years of product management experience, with significant experience in cloud infrastructure, data platforms, or distributed systems\n\n - Deep understanding of enterprise security and compliance requirements, including encryption, key management (BYOK/CMK),\n\n - Experience with stream processing or real-time data systems — familiarity with Apache Flink, Apache Kafka, or similar technologies is strongly preferred\n\n - Strong technical acumen, ability to engage deeply with engineering on system design, understand distributed systems trade-offs, and write precise technical specifications\n\n - Track record of shipping enterprise-grade cloud products in partnership with engineering teams, ideally in a fully managed / SaaS environment\n\n - Excellent cross-functional collaboration skills, demonstrated ability to align and drive outcomes across multiple engineering teams, security, field, and go-to-market functions\n\n - Customer empathy and field engagement experience, comfortable engaging directly with enterprise customers, understanding their technical and business needs, and translating feedback into product direction\n\n - Strong written and verbal communication — ability to author compelling strategy documents, PRDs, and presentations for technical and non-technical audiences\n\n - Data-driven decision making, uses quantitative metrics and analytics to prioritize, measure success, and build consensus\n\n\nWHAT GIVES YOU AN EDGE:\n\n - Experience with cloud service providers (AWS, GCP, Azure) and their security/encryption ecosystems\n\n - Familiarity with Apache Flink internals (state management, checkpointing, SQL, etc.)\n\n - Experience in regulated industries (financial services, healthcare, government)\n\n - Background in open-source communities or developer platforms\n\n - Experience with pricing and packaging for cloud-native products\n\n\nREADY TO BUILD WHAT'S NEXT? LET’S GET IN MOTION.\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\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/.","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":"$231.5K – $272K • Offers Equity","scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":"$231.5K - $272K","compensationTiers":[{"id":"71fdf200-35f0-478f-87ac-fd9f298dfbe7","tierSummary":"$231.5K – $272K • Offers Equity","title":null,"additionalInformation":null,"components":[{"id":"d8bab3b3-8349-4785-b45a-0906965508a2","summary":"$231.5K – $272K","compensationType":"Salary","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"USD","minValue":231500,"maxValue":272000},{"id":"4573cf78-d683-4371-8f85-e4444c7ab84f","summary":"Offers Equity","compensationType":"EquityCashValue","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"USD","minValue":null,"maxValue":null}]}],"summaryComponents":[{"compensationType":"Salary","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"USD","minValue":231500,"maxValue":272000},{"compensationType":"EquityCashValue","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"USD","minValue":null,"maxValue":null}]}},{"id":"7f758710-e3c4-4eed-b801-65e1fe9827e1","title":"Director II, Engineering","department":"Engineering","team":"Engineering","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Palo Alto, California","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":false,"secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-03-16T20:26:17.867+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":null,"workplaceType":null,"address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"Palo Alto"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/confluent/7f758710-e3c4-4eed-b801-65e1fe9827e1","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/confluent/7f758710-e3c4-4eed-b801-65e1fe9827e1/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 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\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? 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.\n\nWe’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.\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. 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.\n\n\nWHAT YOU’LL DO:\n\n - 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\n\n - 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\n\n - 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\n\n - Be as a strong technical leader and representative for engineering across the Compute organization\n\n - Lead the team and the product on aspects of product definition, architectural design, and delivery\n\nWho You Are:\n\n - A smart, humble, and empathetic attitude\n\n - A strong sense of teamwork and are excited about team and company success\n\n - Drive and excitement about challenges of a fast-paced, innovative software startup environment\n\n\nWHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR:\n\n - 10+ years of experience in delivering scalable software solutions\n\n - Proven track record of leading the delivery of large-scale, highly available, low latency, high quality systems\n\n - Deep hands-on technical expertise in hyper-scale distributed systems engineering\n\n - Deep expertise in multi-cluster / multi-tenant Kubernetes a big plus\n\n - Deep expertise in safe deployment of mission-critical workloads at high-scale a big plus\n\n - Expertise in Language Runtimes (JVM, WASM, CPython, etc.) a big plus\n\n - Expertise in Container & Virtualization/Hypervisor technologies (firecracker/gVisor/ cloud-hypervisor/kata-containers, etc.)\n\n - Experience in large-scale safe deployment technologies & best practices\n\n - Experience in Cloud Native technologies including networking & security\n\n - Experience in driving operational excellence for large, production services\n\n - Track record of providing technical leadership and mentorship\n\n - Track record of working collaboratively across teams and roles, including but not limited to product management, UX, and other engineering teams and leaders.\n\n\nREADY TO BUILD WHAT'S NEXT? 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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.
To realize Confluent’s enormous potential, we are looking for software engineers, at various levels, to grow our Traffic team which is responsible for building and managing the networking fabric of Confluent Cloud. Cloud networking is a strategic investment area for Confluent with the potential to impact the company’s top and bottom line. The data plane area in the Traffic team focuses on the performance, security, reliability, and cost optimizations for all traffic that ingresses and egresses a customer's Kafka cluster on Confluent Cloud.
We are looking for someone with an interest in building large-scale distributed systems, with a focus on building and managing network data planes for containerized workloads in the cloud. The ideal candidate would be passionate about network data plane performance, scale, cost optimizations, and building robust software.
Tech in Toronto! Toronto is an early career engineer hub for Confluent. Your role will be a hybrid working model that introduces you to Confluent's culture and enables faster learning, onboarding, and coaching. During the first year of employment, all Software Engineers globally will be required to participate in the SWE Onboarding program and go into their Confluent office 2 days per week.
Build the software underpinning the mission-critical Confluent Cloud network data plane platform. 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
Build upon open source software to deliver business impact
Troubleshoot issues and improve ops for complex technical stack that spans all the 3 clouds and includes microservices, containers, and virtualization
Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, Math, or a related technical field with a graduation date between December 2023 - January 2026
Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development
Experience building and operating large-scale systems
Solid understanding at a systems level (disk, network, operating systems, etc)
A self-starter with the ability to work effectively in teams
Proficiency in C++, Go, Python, or other statically typed languages
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\nTo realize Confluent’s enormous potential, we are looking for software engineers, at various levels, to grow our Traffic team which is responsible for building and managing the networking fabric of Confluent Cloud. Cloud networking is a strategic investment area for Confluent with the potential to impact the company’s top and bottom line. The data plane area in the Traffic team focuses on the performance, security, reliability, and cost optimizations for all traffic that ingresses and egresses a customer's Kafka cluster on Confluent Cloud.\n\nWe are looking for someone with an interest in building large-scale distributed systems, with a focus on building and managing network data planes for containerized workloads in the cloud. The ideal candidate would be passionate about network data plane performance, scale, cost optimizations, and building robust software.\n\nTech in Toronto! Toronto is an early career engineer hub for Confluent. Your role will be a hybrid working model that introduces you to Confluent's culture and enables faster learning, onboarding, and coaching. During the first year of employment, all Software Engineers globally will be required to participate in the SWE Onboarding program and go into their Confluent office 2 days per week.\n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL DO:\n\n - Build the software underpinning the mission-critical Confluent Cloud network data plane platform. 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 - Build upon open source software to deliver business impact\n\n - Troubleshoot issues and improve ops for complex technical stack that spans all the 3 clouds and includes microservices, containers, and virtualization\n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL BRING:\n\n - Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, Math, or a related technical field with a graduation date between December 2023 - January 2026\n\n - Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development\n\n - Experience building and operating large-scale systems\n\n - Solid understanding at a systems level (disk, network, operating systems, etc)\n\n - A self-starter with the ability to work effectively in teams\n\n - Proficiency in C++, Go, Python, or other statically typed languages\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\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\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.
Most companies are still figuring out where AI fits. At Confluent, we're moving past that question — and building the infrastructure that makes AI a trusted, supervised part of how work actually gets done. As Director of Applied AI Engineering, you will own that foundation: the agent orchestration platform, LLM gateway, runtime guardrails, audit logging, and the full lifecycle infrastructure that turns AI experimentation into durable business execution. This is a rare opportunity to shape something from the ground up — hiring the team, setting the architecture, and staying hands-on as a technical contributor to the platform itself. You won't just lead the work; you'll be in it. You will work closely with leaders across Sales, Support, Product, Marketing, Finance, and Legal, ensuring the platform you build accelerates the workflows that most directly influence revenue, customer trust, and monetization speed — with reliability, security, and human oversight built in from the start.
Own and deliver the Applied AI platform layer — including LLM gateway and model routing, agent orchestration framework, HITL infrastructure, agent lifecycle management, identity and access controls, runtime guardrails, audit logging, cost governance, and kill-switch infrastructure
Build and lead a high-performing Applied AI engineering team, establishing the engineering culture, standards, and delivery practices
Design and ship a portfolio of agent builder capabilities spanning no-code tooling through high-complexity programmatic frameworks, enabling both technical and non-technical teams to deploy agents on a shared, governed platform
Partner with ACE (AI Center of Enablement) functional leads and business stakeholders across Sales, Support, Product, Marketing, Finance, and Legal to translate workflow acceleration goals into platform requirements, ensuring infrastructure keeps pace with deployment demand
Establish and own the risk and reliability posture for all agent workloads — including runtime security enforcement, escalation thresholds, override monitoring, and compliance controls
5+ years of engineering leadership experience, with a track record of building and shipping production-grade platform, developer tooling, or internal application systems
Strong technical depth in platform design and distributed systems, with the ability to set architectural direction and make principled decisions around shared infrastructure vs. point solutions
Experience building developer-facing platforms or internal applications that serve audiences of varying technical sophistication — from engineers to non-technical business users
Experience leading or operating within an AI-native engineering team that actively uses AI-assisted development practices and tooling to design, build, and ship software
Proven ability to partner cross-functionally and translate ambiguous business problems into clear platform requirements and engineering roadmaps
Experience building internal AI platforms or developer tooling at an enterprise SaaS, hyperscaler, or AI-native company
Familiarity with agent orchestration frameworks (e.g., LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, CrewAI) and LLM gateway or routing patterns
Background working in environments with explicit security, compliance, or audit requirements — financial services, healthcare tech, or regulated enterprise SaaS
Experience designing no-code or low-code builder surfaces alongside programmatic APIs on a shared underlying platform
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\nMost companies are still figuring out where AI fits. At Confluent, we're moving past that question — and building the infrastructure that makes AI a trusted, supervised part of how work actually gets done. 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LET’S GET IN MOTION.\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\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.
Our business runs on a consumption model — and that changes everything about how our systems need to be designed, integrated, and scaled. Unlike traditional seat-based SaaS, consumption-based businesses demand real-time visibility into usage, highly flexible billing and revenue recognition, and a GTM motion that is deeply intertwined with how customers adopt and expand the product. As we scale, the systems that underpin these operations must be not just functional, but a direct driver of business outcomes.
To lead that effort, we are investing in a new senior leadership role at the heart of our business systems organization. The Senior Director, Business Systems will serve as the primary technology partner to our GTM, Finance, Legal, and Customer Support organizations, owning the strategy, roadmap, and execution of the systems and capabilities that power these functions.
Reporting directly to the Chief Information Officer, this leader will manage a team of Business Systems Analysts and an Architecture team, and will be accountable for the performance, reliability, and strategic evolution of our core business application stack including Salesforce, NetSuite, Marketo, and Metronome. This is a highly cross-functional role that demands executive-level credibility with senior business stakeholders, a clear point of view on how systems enable consumption-model growth, and a track record of leading teams that deliver with consistency and quality.
Business Partnership & Stakeholder Leadership
Serve as the senior IT partner to the GTM, Finance, Legal, and Customer Support organizations, building trusted relationships with VP and C-suite stakeholders across each function
Lead a structured business engagement model — including roadmap reviews, prioritization forums, and executive business reviews — that gives stakeholders visibility and confidence in systems delivery
Translate complex and often competing business requirements into clear systems strategies, ensuring alignment between business objectives and technology investments
Act as an escalation point and decision-maker when business priorities conflict, balancing urgency, risk, and long-term platform health
Represent the Business Systems function in cross-functional planning cycles, including annual and quarterly business planning
Roadmap Ownership & Delivery
Own and maintain a consolidated systems roadmap across all supported business functions, ensuring initiatives are sequenced, resourced, and aligned to company priorities
Drive end-to-end delivery accountability across your team — from requirements through configuration, testing, change management, and hypercare
Establish and enforce delivery standards, including project intake, prioritization criteria, change control, and post-deployment review processes
Partner with the Architecture team to ensure platform decisions are scalable, integration-sound, and aligned to the long-term technical direction of the enterprise
Manage vendor relationships for core platforms (Salesforce, NetSuite, Marketo, Metronome), including contract renewals, roadmap alignment, and escalation management
Governance & Compliance
Ensure business systems processes and controls meet the requirements of a public company, including SOX compliance, audit readiness, and segregation of duties across financial systems
Partner with Internal Audit, Legal, and Finance to support control documentation, testing cycles, and remediation efforts as needed
Champion a culture of change management discipline — ensuring system changes are properly documented, tested, and communicated before deployment to production environments
Team Leadership & Organizational Development
Lead, develop, and retain a team of five direct reports including Business Systems Analysts aligned to GTM, Finance, Legal, and Customer Support, and an Architecture team
Build a high-performing BSA organization by establishing clear role expectations, career frameworks, and development plans
Foster a culture of business empathy, technical rigor, and continuous improvement within the team
Partner with the CIO to evolve the organizational model as the company grows, including decisions around hiring, structure, and capability building
10+ years of experience in business systems, enterprise applications, or IT, with at least 5 years in a senior leadership role managing cross-functional teams
Proven track record of executive-level stakeholder management across multiple business functions in a complex, matrixed organization
Deep familiarity with core business application domains including CRM, ERP, marketing automation, and billing/revenue systems
Experience owning a systems or technology roadmap across multiple concurrent business functions
Strong understanding of quote-to-cash and lead-to-revenue business processes and the systems that support them
Demonstrated ability to lead teams through ambiguity, competing priorities, and organizational change
Experience operating within a public company environment, including working knowledge of SOX controls and IT general controls (ITGCs)
Excellent communication and executive presence — able to present to and influence C-suite stakeholders
Hands-on experience with one or more of the following platforms: Salesforce (Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, or Revenue Cloud), NetSuite, Marketo, Metronome
Experience managing or collaborating closely with an Enterprise Architecture function
Direct experience with consumption-based or usage-based business models, including the systems complexity they introduce around metering, entitlements, rating, and revenue recognition
Experience scaling a business systems function through a period of rapid company growth or significant business transformation
Background in or strong exposure to software, SaaS, or technology industries
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\nOur business runs on a consumption model — and that changes everything about how our systems need to be designed, integrated, and scaled. Unlike traditional seat-based SaaS, consumption-based businesses demand real-time visibility into usage, highly flexible billing and revenue recognition, and a GTM motion that is deeply intertwined with how customers adopt and expand the product. As we scale, the systems that underpin these operations must be not just functional, but a direct driver of business outcomes.\n\nTo lead that effort, we are investing in a new senior leadership role at the heart of our business systems organization. The Senior Director, Business Systems will serve as the primary technology partner to our GTM, Finance, Legal, and Customer Support organizations, owning the strategy, roadmap, and execution of the systems and capabilities that power these functions.\n\nReporting directly to the Chief Information Officer, this leader will manage a team of Business Systems Analysts and an Architecture team, and will be accountable for the performance, reliability, and strategic evolution of our core business application stack including Salesforce, NetSuite, Marketo, and Metronome. This is a highly cross-functional role that demands executive-level credibility with senior business stakeholders, a clear point of view on how systems enable consumption-model growth, and a track record of leading teams that deliver with consistency and quality.\n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL DO:\n\n - Business Partnership & Stakeholder Leadership\n \n - Serve as the senior IT partner to the GTM, Finance, Legal, and Customer Support organizations, building trusted relationships with VP and C-suite stakeholders across each function\n \n - Lead a structured business engagement model — including roadmap reviews, prioritization forums, and executive business reviews — that gives stakeholders visibility and confidence in systems delivery\n \n - Translate complex and often competing business requirements into clear systems strategies, ensuring alignment between business objectives and technology investments\n \n - Act as an escalation point and decision-maker when business priorities conflict, balancing urgency, risk, and long-term platform health\n \n - Represent the Business Systems function in cross-functional planning cycles, including annual and quarterly business planning\n \n Roadmap Ownership & Delivery\n \n - Own and maintain a consolidated systems roadmap across all supported business functions, ensuring initiatives are sequenced, resourced, and aligned to company priorities\n \n - Drive end-to-end delivery accountability across your team — from requirements through configuration, testing, change management, and hypercare\n \n - Establish and enforce delivery standards, including project intake, prioritization criteria, change control, and post-deployment review processes\n \n - Partner with the Architecture team to ensure platform decisions are scalable, integration-sound, and aligned to the long-term technical direction of the enterprise\n \n - Manage vendor relationships for core platforms (Salesforce, NetSuite, Marketo, Metronome), including contract renewals, roadmap alignment, and escalation management\n \n Governance & Compliance\n \n - Ensure business systems processes and controls meet the requirements of a public company, including SOX compliance, audit readiness, and segregation of duties across financial systems\n \n - Partner with Internal Audit, Legal, and Finance to support control documentation, testing cycles, and remediation efforts as needed\n \n - Champion a culture of change management discipline — ensuring system changes are properly documented, tested, and communicated before deployment to production environments\n \n Team Leadership & Organizational Development\n \n - Lead, develop, and retain a team of five direct reports including Business Systems Analysts aligned to GTM, Finance, Legal, and Customer Support, and an Architecture team\n \n - Build a high-performing BSA organization by establishing clear role expectations, career frameworks, and development plans\n \n - Foster a culture of business empathy, technical rigor, and continuous improvement within the team\n \n - Partner with the CIO to evolve the organizational model as the company grows, including decisions around hiring, structure, and capability building\n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL BRING:\n\n - 10+ years of experience in business systems, enterprise applications, or IT, with at least 5 years in a senior leadership role managing cross-functional teams\n\n - Proven track record of executive-level stakeholder management across multiple business functions in a complex, matrixed organization\n\n - Deep familiarity with core business application domains including CRM, ERP, marketing automation, and billing/revenue systems\n\n - Experience owning a systems or technology roadmap across multiple concurrent business functions\n\n - Strong understanding of quote-to-cash and lead-to-revenue business processes and the systems that support them\n\n - Demonstrated ability to lead teams through ambiguity, competing priorities, and organizational change\n\n - Experience operating within a public company environment, including working knowledge of SOX controls and IT general controls (ITGCs)\n\n - Excellent communication and executive presence — able to present to and influence C-suite stakeholders\n\n\nWHAT GIVES YOU AN EDGE:\n\n - Hands-on experience with one or more of the following platforms: Salesforce (Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, or Revenue Cloud), NetSuite, Marketo, Metronome\n\n - Experience managing or collaborating closely with an Enterprise Architecture function\n\n - Direct experience with consumption-based or usage-based business models, including the systems complexity they introduce around metering, entitlements, rating, and revenue recognition\n\n - Experience scaling a business systems function through a period of rapid company growth or significant business transformation\n\n - Background in or strong exposure to software, SaaS, or technology industries\n\n\nREADY TO BUILD WHAT'S NEXT? LET’S GET IN MOTION.\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\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.
The Senior Business Systems Analyst will be part of the Confluent Finance Systems group. She/He will work closely with finance business users, in areas of OM, AR, Revenue Accounting, on various system initiatives and manage the end-to-end project lifecycle. The analyst will be a strong business partner and will drive the implementation of a world class billing and revenue management solution. You will work with stakeholders to define, manage, implement and optimize billing and revenue applications.
In addition to being organized and analytical , He/She will be a great team player and communicate effectively with all levels of the organization. You will have the freedom to exercise creativity, and display your problem-solving skills, while contributing to Confluent’s growth.
Analyst responsible for implementing and optimizing systems and processes across billing, revenue recognition, and the full Order-to-Cash lifecycle.
Partner with Revenue stakeholders to understand evolving system requirements and translate them into detailed functional specifications, technical designs, and test plans
Provide systems support and ensure the successful execution and closure of the monthly usage-based billing cycle.
Collaborate with Billing and Revenue Management teams to document, re-engineer, and improve existing NetSuite processes, identifying opportunities for automation and operational efficiency.
Leverage emerging AI-driven tools and data analytics techniques to improve billing accuracy, automate repetitive finance workflows, and enhance operational insights across revenue systems.
Provide end-user support for NetSuite and related finance applications, and conduct periodic training sessions on system capabilities and best practices.
Architect and manage NetSuite workflows and product configurations supporting billing and revenue recognition processes.
Develop saved searches, financial reports, and operational dashboards to support finance and revenue operations teams.
Manage system enhancement initiatives following established SDLC processes using an agile delivery approach.
Ensure governance, documentation, and change-management controls are followed for all production system updates and implementations.
Partner with NPI and cross-functional teams to perform end-to-end testing across billing, revenue, and finance systems.
Must have 4-5 years of strong experience working with Order to Cash and Billing/Revenue Systems (NetSuite or similar applications)
5-6 years experience as systems analyst supporting ERP and Finance applications
Strong hands on experience working in subscription billing and revenue recognition solutions
Strong understanding of ASC 606 revenue recognition compliance and other related revenue recognition methodologies is a big plus.
Experience with Usage based billing applications is a big plus.
Must have experience designing and developing solutions in financial applications area – E.g Developing end-to-end solutions in Netsuite
Must have experience directly working with finance users in gathering requirements and developing solutions
Must have a good understanding of finance and accounting concepts
Exposure to process and project management methodologies, tools and processes
Must have excellent oral and written communication skills
Ability to handle multiple projects and responsibilities with competing priorities
Bachelor’s Degree in Information systems, Accounting or related 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\nThe Senior Business Systems Analyst will be part of the Confluent Finance Systems group. She/He will work closely with finance business users, in areas of OM, AR, Revenue Accounting, on various system initiatives and manage the end-to-end project lifecycle. The analyst will be a strong business partner and will drive the implementation of a world class billing and revenue management solution. You will work with stakeholders to define, manage, implement and optimize billing and revenue applications.\n\nIn addition to being organized and analytical , He/She will be a great team player and communicate effectively with all levels of the organization. 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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.
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 customers 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
Kubernetes, 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 provisioning, 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 spread across 1000’s of kubernetes clusters in multiple cloud providers and 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
Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development
Good understanding of the Kubernetes ecosystem
Knowledge in building and operating large-scale systems
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 and a kubernetes CNI is advantageous
Experience using Kubernetes is a big plus
Relevant cloud infrastructure/cloud networking 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\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. 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LET’S GET IN MOTION.\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\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 Cloud UI Apps owns the core cloud experiences that data engineers, platform operators, and governance stakeholders use every day to discover, understand, and safely operate streaming data. As an Engineering Manager for Kafka UI, Tableflow UI, and Governance UI, you will lead the team that stitches these experiences together in Confluent Cloud — from Kafka-centric workflows and Data Portal to governance-aware views and Tableflow integrations.
You will be responsible for a team that operates at the intersection of product, platform, and governance: evolving the Governance/Data Portal experience, completing the Tableflow story in the UI, and driving schema and catalog experiences (e.g., search, RBAC-aware editing, subject lifecycle) that sit on top of complex backend systems. You will run several initiatives in parallel, know when to lean in technically on architecture, backend contracts, and platform UX, and when to focus on building, coaching, and scaling a healthy, high-performing team.
Own the overall vision and execution for Kafka UI, Tableflow UI, and Governance UI — including, but not limited to, Data Portal, Governance-aware Kafka experiences, and Tableflow integrations in lineage and catalog — to deliver cohesive, intuitive user journeys for data engineers, platform operators, and governance stakeholders in Confluent Cloud.
Work closely with product management, design, and TPMs to build and drive the roadmap for these experiences, enabling seamless adoption and operation of capabilities like stream governance, schema management, catalog search and discovery, and Tableflow, while balancing net‑new features with migrations, deprecations, and UX improvements.
Partner with backend and platform teams (e.g., Kafka, Schema Registry, Data Catalog/RBAC, Search, Tableflow/Unified Storage, Observability) to define clear API contracts and sequencing, de‑risk cross-team dependencies, and ensure UI flows remain robust as services evolve (including upgrades to new APIs and retirement of deprecated ones).
Raise the operational bar for this team by instilling strong execution practices — including effective retrospectives, clear ownership and accountability, and a predictable approach to managing capacity across “big rocks” and papercuts — while giving the team room to choose the day‑to‑day execution model that works best (e.g., sprints vs. Kanban).
Build, grow, and lead a team of engineers working on cloud UI applications: hire and retain top talent, provide coaching and feedback, create structured onboarding in a complex domain (Kafka, governance, catalog, Tableflow), and develop engineers into senior technical and leadership roles.
Lean in technically where it matters most — participating in design and architecture reviews, shaping cross-surface UX patterns with design, guiding decisions around performance and reliability, and unblocking the team when backend contracts, deprecations, or ambiguous requirements threaten delivery.
Minimum of 8+ years of software development experience with 3+ years of engineering management experience, including leading teams that deliver complex, customer-facing cloud experiences.
Strong experience with Kafka, data streaming platforms, or data governance/catalog products (e.g., Schema Registry, data catalogs, lineage, or table/warehouse integrations), and a track record of shipping features that sit on top of such systems.
Technical expertise in large scale systems engineering or distributed systems, with hands-on experience building or integrating with cloud-native services (for example, APIs powering search, catalog, permissions/RBAC, governance workflows, or storage/table systems).
A strong track record of driving execution across multiple concurrent initiatives — from net-new feature development (such as UX revamps, new workflows, and integrations) to operational work like API migrations, deprecation-driven changes, quality improvements, and papercuts — while maintaining clear priorities and predictable delivery.
Demonstrated ability to influence and align cross-functional partners (product management, design, TPMs, and partner backend teams) through clear communication, structured status and risk narratives, and data-informed decision making.
Experience hiring while maintaining a high talent bar, keeping engineers engaged and motivated, providing effective coaching and feedback, and handling performance management in a fair and transparent way.
BS Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience; an advanced degree in computer science or a related discipline is a plus.
Experience building or leading teams that work on governance and platform UX (for example, catalog or lineage UIs, schema lifecycle workflows, or table/warehouse integrations such as Tableflow, Iceberg, or similar) in a cloud environment.
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 UI Apps owns the core cloud experiences that data engineers, platform operators, and governance stakeholders use every day to discover, understand, and safely operate streaming data. As an Engineering Manager for Kafka UI, Tableflow UI, and Governance UI, you will lead the team that stitches these experiences together in Confluent Cloud — from Kafka-centric workflows and Data Portal to governance-aware views and Tableflow integrations.\n\nYou will be responsible for a team that operates at the intersection of product, platform, and governance: evolving the Governance/Data Portal experience, completing the Tableflow story in the UI, and driving schema and catalog experiences (e.g., search, RBAC-aware editing, subject lifecycle) that sit on top of complex backend systems. You will run several initiatives in parallel, know when to lean in technically on architecture, backend contracts, and platform UX, and when to focus on building, coaching, and scaling a healthy, high-performing team.\n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL DO:\n\n - Own the overall vision and execution for Kafka UI, Tableflow UI, and Governance UI — including, but not limited to, Data Portal, Governance-aware Kafka experiences, and Tableflow integrations in lineage and catalog — to deliver cohesive, intuitive user journeys for data engineers, platform operators, and governance stakeholders in Confluent Cloud.\n\n - Work closely with product management, design, and TPMs to build and drive the roadmap for these experiences, enabling seamless adoption and operation of capabilities like stream governance, schema management, catalog search and discovery, and Tableflow, while balancing net‑new features with migrations, deprecations, and UX improvements.\n\n - Partner with backend and platform teams (e.g., Kafka, Schema Registry, Data Catalog/RBAC, Search, Tableflow/Unified Storage, Observability) to define clear API contracts and sequencing, de‑risk cross-team dependencies, and ensure UI flows remain robust as services evolve (including upgrades to new APIs and retirement of deprecated ones).\n\n - Raise the operational bar for this team by instilling strong execution practices — including effective retrospectives, clear ownership and accountability, and a predictable approach to managing capacity across “big rocks” and papercuts — while giving the team room to choose the day‑to‑day execution model that works best (e.g., sprints vs. Kanban).\n\n - Build, grow, and lead a team of engineers working on cloud UI applications: hire and retain top talent, provide coaching and feedback, create structured onboarding in a complex domain (Kafka, governance, catalog, Tableflow), and develop engineers into senior technical and leadership roles.\n\n - Lean in technically where it matters most — participating in design and architecture reviews, shaping cross-surface UX patterns with design, guiding decisions around performance and reliability, and unblocking the team when backend contracts, deprecations, or ambiguous requirements threaten delivery.\n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL BRING:\n\n - Minimum of 8+ years of software development experience with 3+ years of engineering management experience, including leading teams that deliver complex, customer-facing cloud experiences.\n\n - Strong experience with Kafka, data streaming platforms, or data governance/catalog products (e.g., Schema Registry, data catalogs, lineage, or table/warehouse integrations), and a track record of shipping features that sit on top of such systems.\n\n - Technical expertise in large scale systems engineering or distributed systems, with hands-on experience building or integrating with cloud-native services (for example, APIs powering search, catalog, permissions/RBAC, governance workflows, or storage/table systems).\n\n - A strong track record of driving execution across multiple concurrent initiatives — from net-new feature development (such as UX revamps, new workflows, and integrations) to operational work like API migrations, deprecation-driven changes, quality improvements, and papercuts — while maintaining clear priorities and predictable delivery.\n\n - Demonstrated ability to influence and align cross-functional partners (product management, design, TPMs, and partner backend teams) through clear communication, structured status and risk narratives, and data-informed decision making.\n\n - Experience hiring while maintaining a high talent bar, keeping engineers engaged and motivated, providing effective coaching and feedback, and handling performance management in a fair and transparent way.\n\n - BS Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience; an advanced degree in computer science or a related discipline is a plus.\n\n\nWHAT GIVES YOU AN EDGE:\n\n - Experience building or leading teams that work on governance and platform UX (for example, catalog or lineage UIs, schema lifecycle workflows, or table/warehouse integrations such as Tableflow, Iceberg, or similar) in a cloud environment.\n\n\nREADY TO BUILD WHAT'S NEXT? 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One Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.
As a Senior Technical Program Manager (TPM), you will be a key force-multiplier within Confluent's Cloud Architecture and Reliability (CAR) organization. Your primary responsibility is leading the execution of our Observability and Monetization programs—critical initiatives that directly impact Confluent's platform reliability, customer experience, and revenue operations. This role requires driving cross-functional alignment across Engineering, Product, Finance, and Data teams..
Drive Observability Excellence: Lead programs that enhance platform monitoring, alerting, and operational intelligence capabilities across Confluent's cloud infrastructure.
Own Monetization Delivery: Partner with Engineering and Finance to deliver billing accuracy, usage metering, and cost attribution initiatives that directly impact revenue.
Technical Liaison: Translate business requirements into technical specifications for metrics pipelines, dashboards, and billing systems; communicate trade-offs to leadership.
Operational Excellence: Establish clear milestones, KPIs, and risk-mitigation strategies; drive predictable delivery for programs spanning multiple quarters.
Cross-Team Coordination: Resolve dependencies between Observability, Operational Intelligence, and Monetization teams; manage resource allocation and priorities.
Stakeholder Management: Facilitate decision-making across global, distributed teams; provide regular executive-level program updates.
Experience: 5–8+ years in technical program management within cloud-native, SaaS, or high-scale infrastructure environments.
Technical Depth: Strong understanding of observability stacks (metrics, logging, tracing), distributed systems, and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
Data & Analytics: Experience with data pipelines, billing/metering systems, or usage analytics platforms.
Leadership Style: Alignment with Confluent's values—Smart, Humble, and Empathetic; you thrive in ambiguity and \"Get Stuff Done\".
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Proven ability to align Engineering, Product, Finance, and Data teams on shared goals.
Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
Experience with observability platforms (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry) or building internal monitoring systems.
Familiarity with usage-based billing models, revenue systems, or FinOps practices.
Hands-on experience building dashboards and reports using SQL, BigQuery, JQL, or Data Studio.
Experience with Apache Kafka or event streaming architectures.
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 Technical Program Manager (TPM), you will be a key force-multiplier within Confluent's Cloud Architecture and Reliability (CAR) organization. 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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.
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. 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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.
5+ 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 oncall 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.
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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 Cloud Enablement Engineer at Confluent, you will be at the intersection of engineering and education, empowering our users and prospects with the knowledge and skills to leverage Kafka and Flink on Confluent Cloud effectively.
You will be responsible for guiding our valued users to get started with Confluent Cloud by holding one-on-one conversations and by creating high-quality technical content, including code samples, articles, and webinars, that demonstrate how to set up and use Confluent Cloud for various real-time data use cases like Real Time Data Warehousing, Migration from Open Source Kafka, Custom Connector set up, integrating with AI and ML tools etc.
Develop and maintain high-quality, well-documented guides for various setup, performance tuning, scaling needs that customers often have.
Develop and maintain high-quality, well-documented code examples that illustrate the usage of Confluent Cloud with AI and ML tools such as Hugging Face, OpenAI, Mistral, RAG, etc.
Create engaging and informative technical articles, tutorials, and how-to guides that cater to various levels of expertise.
Host webinars and live coding sessions to walk through code examples and demonstrate Confluent Cloud's capabilities in real-time.
Collaborate with the product and engineering teams to stay updated on Confluent Cloud features and best practices.
Provide technical support and guidance to users and prospects, helping them overcome challenges and successfully implement Confluent Cloud solutions.
Participate in community forums and social media platforms to share knowledge and engage with the Confluent community.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
Strong proficiency in Java or Python or C/C++ programming and experience in independently developing, testing and publishing high-quality code.
Engineering Skills:
Solid understanding of distributed systems and streaming data architectures.
Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP) and containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and version control systems (e.g., Git).
Knowledge of data processing frameworks (e.g., Spark, Flink) and databases (SQL and NoSQL).
Ability to troubleshoot and optimize system performance.
Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts in a clear and engaging manner.
Self-motivated and proactive, with a passion for teaching and enabling others to succeed.
2+ years of experience setting up and working with Apache Kafka.
A basic understanding of AI and ML concepts and experience integrating Kafka with AI tools such as Hugging Face, OpenAI, Mistral, RAG, etc.
Experience in creating technical content such as articles, tutorials, and webinars.
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 Senior Software Engineer, you will contribute to several key initiatives for the Connect Platform Team at Confluent. The Connect Platform team’s mission is to design, build, and operate critical components that bridge Apache Kafka with the wider ecosystem - making it seamless, secure, and scalable for enterprises to move data between Kafka and external systems, both on-premises and in Confluent Cloud. The team is responsible for both self-managed (on-prem) and fully managed (cloud) connectors, ensuring organizations can confidently integrate, govern, and manage streaming data flows to power event-driven architectures.
Confluent Connect is the industry-standard integration and ingestion framework for Kafka, enabling organizations to stream data between Kafka and hundreds of external systems (databases, SaaS, storage, legacy apps).
The team delivers key primitives such as:
Single Message Transforms (SMTs)
Authentication, security, tenant isolation, role-based access, and network controls
Support for both self-managed and fully managed connectors
Work with distributed systems, cloud-native development, and secure, scalable data integration
Architect a complex engineering system from end to end
Partner across engineering and other key stakeholders to create and execute the overall roadmap for delivering a top-notch Data Streaming Platform for our customers
Evaluate and enhance the efficiency of our platform’s technology stack, keeping pace with industry trends and adopting state-of-the-art solutions
Solve complicated technical projects with high quality and provide technical guidance to the team in specialized areas
Enhance the stability, performance, scalability, and operational excellence across multiple critical systems
3-5 years of relevant software development experience
Proven track record of leading the delivery of large-scale, secure, highly available, low latency, high quality systems
Deep hands-on technical expertise in hyper-scale distributed systems engineering
Experience running production services in the cloud and being part of on call rotation
Expertise in cloud-native technology, including networking & security
Experience with Java, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms is highly valued
Strong collaboration skills and a growth mindset are essential, given the team’s cross-functional nature and focus on mentorship and operational excellence
Prior experience working on AWS, GCP, or Azure and a deep understanding of cloud best practices
Ability to influence the team, peers, and management using effective communication and collaborative techniques
Proven experience in leading and mentoring technical teams
Drive results by removing friction and improving the development stack with urgency and prioritization skills
BS Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience. An advanced degree in computer science is preferred
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, you will contribute to several key initiatives for the Connect Platform Team at Confluent. 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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 enterprise customers operate complex, distributed streaming platforms across cloud, on-prem, and hybrid environments. They need world-class observability, management, and governance interfaces to operate these platforms confidently at scale. Unified Stream Manager (USM) and Control Center are the products that deliver this experience — providing operators with the tools to monitor, manage, and govern their Confluent Platform and Confluent Private Cloud deployments.
This PM will own the product strategy and execution for our hybrid control plane, ensuring that Confluent delivers an industry-leading operations experience for self-managed and private cloud customers.
The PM will:
• Define and execute the product strategy and roadmap, driving adoption and customer success
• Lead the evolution of USM as the modern, cloud-native management and observability surface for Confluent Platform and Confluent Private Cloud
• Drive the Control Center roadmap, balancing maintenance of the existing product with the strategic migration path toward USM
• Own the observability story for self-managed Confluent — including metrics integration with third-party monitoring systems (e.g., Dynatrace, Datadog, Prometheus)
• Collaborate closely with engineering, design, field, and support teams to deliver capabilities that reduce operational burden for customers
• Measure and report on product adoption, customer satisfaction, and business impact
• Partner with GTM teams to enable field communication, customer onboarding, and competitive positioning
The PM must:
• Have deep experience with enterprise observability, monitoring, and operations tooling — familiarity with platforms like Grafana, Datadog, Dynatrace, Prometheus, or similar
• Understand enterprise platform management — deployment lifecycle, configuration management, health monitoring, alerting, and governance
• Demonstrate strong UX sensibility for enterprise operations interfaces (dashboards, CLIs, APIs)
• Have experience with distributed systems and the operational challenges they present
• Be comfortable navigating complex enterprise software ecosystems — understanding how on-prem, private cloud, and hybrid architectures differ from pure SaaS
• Have 5–8+ years of product management experience, with meaningful time in infrastructure, platform, or observability domains
• Demonstrate exceptional written and verbal communication skills — at Confluent, we rely heavily on documents to explain the vision and facilitate concrete communication
• Show ability to drive business outcomes through product decisions
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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Unified Stream Manager (USM) and Control Center are the products that deliver this experience — providing operators with the tools to monitor, manage, and govern their Confluent Platform and Confluent Private Cloud deployments.\n\nThis PM will own the product strategy and execution for our hybrid control plane, ensuring that Confluent delivers an industry-leading operations experience for self-managed and private cloud customers.\n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL DO:\n\nThe PM will:\n\n• Define and execute the product strategy and roadmap, driving adoption and customer success\n\n• Lead the evolution of USM as the modern, cloud-native management and observability surface for Confluent Platform and Confluent Private Cloud\n\n• Drive the Control Center roadmap, balancing maintenance of the existing product with the strategic migration path toward USM\n\n• Own the observability story for self-managed Confluent — including metrics integration with third-party monitoring systems (e.g., Dynatrace, Datadog, Prometheus)\n\n• Collaborate closely with engineering, design, field, and support teams to deliver capabilities that reduce operational burden for customers\n\n• Measure and report on product adoption, customer satisfaction, and business impact\n\n• Partner with GTM teams to enable field communication, customer onboarding, and competitive positioning\n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL BRING:\n\nThe PM must:\n\n• Have deep experience with enterprise observability, monitoring, and operations tooling — familiarity with platforms like Grafana, Datadog, Dynatrace, Prometheus, or similar\n\n• Understand enterprise platform management — deployment lifecycle, configuration management, health monitoring, alerting, and governance\n\n• Demonstrate strong UX sensibility for enterprise operations interfaces (dashboards, CLIs, APIs)\n\n• Have experience with distributed systems and the operational challenges they present\n\n• Be comfortable navigating complex enterprise software ecosystems — understanding how on-prem, private cloud, and hybrid architectures differ from pure SaaS\n\n• Have 5–8+ years of product management experience, with meaningful time in infrastructure, platform, or observability domains\n\n• Demonstrate exceptional written and verbal communication skills — at Confluent, we rely heavily on documents to explain the vision and facilitate concrete communication\n\n• Show ability to drive business outcomes through product decisions\n\n\nREADY TO BUILD WHAT'S NEXT? LET’S GET IN MOTION.\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\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.
About the Role:
The Confluent Platform Team is fully based out of India. Confluent Platform team’s mission is to provide best-in class full-scale data streaming platform in any BYOI - Bring Your Own Infra setup - from developer’s laptop to private cloud infrastructure.
Businesses need real time stream systems to react and make decisions quickly at scale. Designing systems for such use-cases will require a data-streaming platform. Confluent is the leader in data-in-motion with Confluent Platform as the streaming product. We intend to make this platform and expertise available to everyone and everywhere - be it private cloud or open source tech community.Provide “Confluent“ experience on private cloud.
CP generates 45% of the Confluent revenue for the company as of 2025. We provide customers with a strong product roadmap, security fixes and in-time support. We help them leverage existing investments in private data centers for all data in-motion use-cases.
Enable customers can take advantage of Confluent Cloud innovations alongside their private cloud by providing connected cloud features.
Gather Tech Community’s mind-share with Confluent Platform.
Enhance Kafka and Confluent Developer Experience.
What You Will Do:
You will work with a team of engineers and architects to help evolve the Confluent Platform
The charter of the CP team has been continuously expanding since its inception. You will technically drive the advancements in ever expanding CP Charter.
We want to ensure the quality of deliverables holds the bar - you will design and build tech for this.
Crafting code for provisioning, rolling upgrades, scaling clusters, multi-region deployments, disaster recovery, and secure configuration management.
Collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive the development of innovative solutions that meet the evolving needs of our customers.
Championing open-source community building initiatives, leveraging your passion for fostering collaboration and knowledge-sharing.
CP on-call - how do we embedded tech to ensure debuggability and support across components are improved. How do we make it self-serve issue fixes for customers and L1 support.
Mentor a junior team of high-performing engineers, helping them to continue in growing their skill set through hands-on experience and mentorship.
We want to bring the latest K8S ecosystem to our CFK - how do we leverage the progress here to benefit our customers.
What You Will Bring:
8+ years of hands-on software development experience with the ability to anticipate future technical needs for the product and craft plans to realize them. Taking ideas to production is something we look for.
Experience building and operating large-scale systems. Solid understanding of basic systems operations (disk, network, operating systems, etc). Experience running production services in the cloud.
Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development. Solid fundamentals in concurrent and multi-threading programming.
A self starter with the ability to work effectively in teams. Proactively identifying the symptoms of technical issues and reason about their causes is needed. This will be followed by fixing the root causes.
Timely shipping of deliverables; being able to trade-off short term technical decisions with the long term.Move fast, build in increments, and iterate. A sense of urgency, a mindset towards achieving results, and excellent prioritization skills.
Ability to influence the team, peers and upper management in technology decisions using effective communication and collaborative techniques
Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent experience. Understanding of various technologies, programming paradigms and frameworks is needed. Ability to be pragmatic and trade off their usage in production is essential.
Ability to take on intense customer productions issues on-call; debugging and mitigating them will be needed. This requires patient log and metrics analysis with solid reasoning to nail the issue.
What Gives You an Edge:
Experience in Open-source technologies
Experience in K8S, Ansible
Hands on experience in Hybrid Cloud environment
Hands on experience in 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\nAbout the Role:\n\nThe Confluent Platform Team is fully based out of India. Confluent Platform team’s mission is to provide best-in class full-scale data streaming platform in any BYOI - Bring Your Own Infra setup - from developer’s laptop to private cloud infrastructure.\n\nBusinesses need real time stream systems to react and make decisions quickly at scale. Designing systems for such use-cases will require a data-streaming platform. Confluent is the leader in data-in-motion with Confluent Platform as the streaming product. We intend to make this platform and expertise available to everyone and everywhere - be it private cloud or open source tech community.Provide “Confluent“ experience on private cloud.\n\n - CP generates 45% of the Confluent revenue for the company as of 2025. We provide customers with a strong product roadmap, security fixes and in-time support. We help them leverage existing investments in private data centers for all data in-motion use-cases.\n\n - Enable customers can take advantage of Confluent Cloud innovations alongside their private cloud by providing connected cloud features.\n\n - Gather Tech Community’s mind-share with Confluent Platform.\n\n - Enhance Kafka and Confluent Developer Experience.\n\nWhat You Will Do:\n\n - You will work with a team of engineers and architects to help evolve the Confluent Platform\n\n - The charter of the CP team has been continuously expanding since its inception. You will technically drive the advancements in ever expanding CP Charter.\n\n - We want to ensure the quality of deliverables holds the bar - you will design and build tech for this.\n\n - Crafting code for provisioning, rolling upgrades, scaling clusters, multi-region deployments, disaster recovery, and secure configuration management.\n\n - Collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive the development of innovative solutions that meet the evolving needs of our customers.\n\n - Championing open-source community building initiatives, leveraging your passion for fostering collaboration and knowledge-sharing.\n\n - CP on-call - how do we embedded tech to ensure debuggability and support across components are improved. How do we make it self-serve issue fixes for customers and L1 support.\n\n - Mentor a junior team of high-performing engineers, helping them to continue in growing their skill set through hands-on experience and mentorship.\n\n - We want to bring the latest K8S ecosystem to our CFK - how do we leverage the progress here to benefit our customers.\n\nWhat You Will Bring:\n\n - 8+ years of hands-on software development experience with the ability to anticipate future technical needs for the product and craft plans to realize them. Taking ideas to production is something we look for.\n\n - Experience building and operating large-scale systems. Solid understanding of basic systems operations (disk, network, operating systems, etc). Experience running production services in the cloud.\n\n - Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development. Solid fundamentals in concurrent and multi-threading programming.\n\n - A self starter with the ability to work effectively in teams. Proactively identifying the symptoms of technical issues and reason about their causes is needed. This will be followed by fixing the root causes.\n\n - Timely shipping of deliverables; being able to trade-off short term technical decisions with the long term.Move fast, build in increments, and iterate. A sense of urgency, a mindset towards achieving results, and excellent prioritization skills.\n\n - Ability to influence the team, peers and upper management in technology decisions using effective communication and collaborative techniques\n\n - Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent experience. Understanding of various technologies, programming paradigms and frameworks is needed. Ability to be pragmatic and trade off their usage in production is essential.\n\n - Ability to take on intense customer productions issues on-call; debugging and mitigating them will be needed. This requires patient log and metrics analysis with solid reasoning to nail the issue.\n\nWhat Gives You an Edge:\n\n - Experience in Open-source technologies\n\n - Experience in K8S, Ansible\n\n - Hands on experience in Hybrid Cloud environment\n\n - Hands on experience in Kafka\n\n\nREADY TO BUILD WHAT'S NEXT? LET’S GET IN MOTION.\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\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.
The Kora Serverless team has the vision to build the best serverless experience for Kora - Confluent’s cloud native Kafka service. As a Senior Software engineer, you will design and build efficient and performant algorithms for right sizing, load balancing and seamless scalability of Kora. You will be instrumental in driving the vision and roadmap providing technical leadership, mentoring, and enabling a high-performing engineering team to tackle complex distributed data challenges at scale.
Build the software underpinning mission-critical Kora Serverless platform. You will play a crucial role in designing, developing and operationalizing high performance, scalable, reliable and resilient systems
Collaborate effectively across engineering, product, field teams and other key stakeholders to create and execute impactful roadmap for the Kora Serverless team.
Meet and exceed Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for critical cloud services owned by the Kora Serverless team.
Evaluate and enhance the efficiency of our platform's technology stack, keeping pace with industry trends and adopting state-of-the-art solutions
Provide technical leadership, mentorship and drive strong teamwork
BS, MS or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience
6+ years of relevant software development experience
3+ years of experience with designing, building, and scaling distributed systems
Deep technical expertise in large scale distributed systems
Experience running production services in the cloud with demonstrated operational excellence
Proficiency in Java, Scala
Ability to influence the team, peers, and management using effective communication and collaborative techniques
Proven experience in leading and mentoring technical teams
A strong background in distributed storage systems or databases
Experience in the areas of load balancing stateful distributed systems
Experience developing SaaS services on public clouds providers(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\nABOUT THE ROLE:\n\nThe Kora Serverless team has the vision to build the best serverless experience for Kora https://www.confluent.io/blog/cloud-native-data-streaming-kafka-engine/ - Confluent’s cloud native Kafka service. 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You will play a crucial role in designing, developing and operationalizing high performance, scalable, reliable and resilient systems\n\n - Collaborate effectively across engineering, product, field teams and other key stakeholders to create and execute impactful roadmap for the Kora Serverless team.\n\n - Meet and exceed Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for critical cloud services owned by the Kora Serverless team.\n\n - Evaluate and enhance the efficiency of our platform's technology stack, keeping pace with industry trends and adopting state-of-the-art solutions\n\n - Provide technical leadership, mentorship and drive strong teamwork\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 - 6+ years of relevant software development experience\n\n - 3+ years of experience with designing, building, and scaling distributed systems\n\n - Deep technical expertise in large scale distributed systems\n\n - Experience running production services in the cloud with demonstrated operational excellence\n\n - Proficiency in Java, Scala\n\n - Ability to influence the team, peers, and management using effective communication and collaborative techniques\n\n - Proven experience in leading and mentoring technical teams\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 load balancing stateful distributed systems\n\n - Experience developing SaaS services on public clouds providers(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? 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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.
The Business Technology team builds the internal applications that act as Confluent’s central nervous system for revenue, forecasting, and operational efficiency. We deliver strategic internal web applications that power deal lifecycle workflows, quoting, pricing and tiering, and planning tools used by Sales, Finance, and Customer teams.
Our products enable data driven decision making before resources are committed, helping stakeholders plan proactively, optimize usage, and manage spend with confidence. The team focuses on high business impact internal–facing applications with mission critical outcomes for growth, efficiency, and scale.
We are seeking an exceptional Staff Software Engineer who combines deep technical expertise with the ability to shape architecture, influence cross functional partners, and drive open ended initiatives across teams. You will own the end to end design and delivery of complex systems, identify high leverage problems, and set patterns that other engineers follow.
This role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving real business problems with pragmatic, maintainable solutions more than building at massive consumer scale, and who can operate comfortably from hands-on implementation through technical strategy and stakeholder leadership.
Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of high impact internal web applications that support deal lifecycle, pricing and quoting, forecasting, and planning workflows.
Own complex, cross team technical initiatives from problem framing through design, implementation, rollout, and long term evolution.
Identify and drive high leverage technical investments that improve reliability, performance, developer velocity, and user experience across multiple applications and services.
Design and evolve microservices, APIs, and data models that integrate with systems such as Salesforce, billing, data platforms, and analytics, ensuring robust contracts and clear boundaries.
Partner closely with Product Managers and business stakeholders to translate ambiguous business problems into clear technical strategies, roadmaps, and deliverables over multi quarter horizons.
Provide technical leadership and mentoring for senior and mid level engineers, raising the bar on design quality, code quality, observability, and operational excellence across the team.
Champion engineering best practices including testing, performance engineering, incident readiness, and secure coding, and ensure they are consistently applied in your area of ownership.
Collaborate with peer teams to define cohesive end to end solutions and shared platforms rather than point integrations.
Contribute to and help refine the technical strategy, architecture principles, and career standards for the Commit Estimator and broader Application & AI Engineering domains.
Contribute to modernize the existing application and platform for scalability, availability, speed of delivering software and enabling AI capabilities for End Users .
12+ years of professional software engineering experience, including substantial time as a technical architect on complex, business critical systems.
Deep hands-on expertise in full stack development using languages such as Go, Java, or similar, building services and APIs and modern JavaScript front ends (e.g., React).
Strong experience with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL) and comfort working with event streaming or messaging technologies such as Kafka.
Proven track record of architecting and delivering internal or B2B applications that support complex business workflows with high reliability and usability.
Demonstrated ability to decompose ambiguous, cross team problems into clear technical designs and milestones, and to ship high quality solutions on time for multi quarter initiatives.
Experience improving developer productivity and operational excellence through better abstractions, tooling, automation, and thoughtful refactoring of legacy systems.
Strong system design, data structures, and algorithms foundation, with an emphasis on pragmatic trade offs and simplicity in real world systems.
Comfortable operating in a cloud native environment (AWS or similar), using containers, CI/CD, and modern observability tooling to run and operate services in production.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a track record of influencing stakeholders at multiple levels and mentoring other engineers.
Growth mindset, ownership mentality, and a bias for action in pursuit of measurable impact on revenue, efficiency, and customer 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 TEAM\n\nThe Business Technology team builds the internal applications that act as Confluent’s central nervous system for revenue, forecasting, and operational efficiency. 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You will own the end to end design and delivery of complex systems, identify high leverage problems, and set patterns that other engineers follow.\n\nThis role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving real business problems with pragmatic, maintainable solutions more than building at massive consumer scale, and who can operate comfortably from hands-on implementation through technical strategy and stakeholder leadership.\n\n\nWHAT YOU’LL DO\n\n - Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of high impact internal web applications that support deal lifecycle, pricing and quoting, forecasting, and planning workflows.\n\n - Own complex, cross team technical initiatives from problem framing through design, implementation, rollout, and long term evolution.\n\n - Identify and drive high leverage technical investments that improve reliability, performance, developer velocity, and user experience across multiple applications and services.\n\n - Design and evolve microservices, APIs, and data models that integrate with systems such as Salesforce, billing, data platforms, and analytics, ensuring robust contracts and clear boundaries.\n\n - Partner closely with Product Managers and business stakeholders to translate ambiguous business problems into clear technical strategies, roadmaps, and deliverables over multi quarter horizons.\n\n - Provide technical leadership and mentoring for senior and mid level engineers, raising the bar on design quality, code quality, observability, and operational excellence across the team.\n\n - Champion engineering best practices including testing, performance engineering, incident readiness, and secure coding, and ensure they are consistently applied in your area of ownership.\n\n - Collaborate with peer teams to define cohesive end to end solutions and shared platforms rather than point integrations.\n\n - Contribute to and help refine the technical strategy, architecture principles, and career standards for the Commit Estimator and broader Application & AI Engineering domains.\n\n - Contribute to modernize the existing application and platform for scalability, availability, speed of delivering software and enabling AI capabilities for End Users .\n\n\nWHAT MAKES YOU SUCCESSFUL\n\n - 12+ years of professional software engineering experience, including substantial time as a technical architect on complex, business critical systems.\n\n - Deep hands-on expertise in full stack development using languages such as Go, Java, or similar, building services and APIs and modern JavaScript front ends (e.g., React).\n\n - Strong experience with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL) and comfort working with event streaming or messaging technologies such as Kafka.\n\n - Proven track record of architecting and delivering internal or B2B applications that support complex business workflows with high reliability and usability.\n\n - Demonstrated ability to decompose ambiguous, cross team problems into clear technical designs and milestones, and to ship high quality solutions on time for multi quarter initiatives.\n\n - Experience improving developer productivity and operational excellence through better abstractions, tooling, automation, and thoughtful refactoring of legacy systems.\n\n - Strong system design, data structures, and algorithms foundation, with an emphasis on pragmatic trade offs and simplicity in real world systems.\n\n - Comfortable operating in a cloud native environment (AWS or similar), using containers, CI/CD, and modern observability tooling to run and operate services in production.\n\n - Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a track record of influencing stakeholders at multiple levels and mentoring other engineers.\n\n - Growth mindset, ownership mentality, and a bias for action in pursuit of measurable impact on revenue, efficiency, and customer experience.\n\n\nREADY TO BUILD WHAT'S NEXT? LET’S GET IN MOTION.\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\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.
The Stream Processing & Analytics (SPA) team is building an elastic, reliable, durable, cost-effective, and performant stream processing engine based on Apache Flink for Confluent Cloud. This role is critical in defining and executing the long-term vision around a scalable, efficient, resilient and true cloud native data stream processor, including initiatives enabling autoscaling and limitless state management, ensuring a zero-knob and worry-free experience for our users and customers by providing the right amount of stream processing at any given point in time, allowing customers to focus on building their use case without managing infrastructure complexities.
Architect and Drive Technical Strategy: Own the architecture and technical strategy for a complex engineering system (e.g., a core component of scheduling, deployment, autoscaling, or state management) within the Flink engine.
Contribute to the broader technical vision and translate it into actionable, high-impact projects aligned with Confluent Cloud’s strategic goals.
Exercise sound judgment in balancing short-term implementation efforts versus long-term architectural health.
Complex Project Execution: Independently drive the execution of open-ended, complicated technical projects within your area of expertise or across peer teams from inception through production.
Identify and initiate high leverage, high impact projects in your area of expertise and gain buy-in from stakeholders.
Significantly simplify the complexity of code and design to help the team and company move fast.
Technical Expertise and Operational Excellence:Serve as the sought-out technical expert for your domain, driving great quality and impact to architectural designs for your team and peer teams.
Improve the stability, performance, scalability, and operational excellence across multiple critical systems within the SPA team.
Act as a subject matter expert for troubleshooting and improving operational automation, proactively addressing systemic issues.
Mentorship and Communication:Demonstrate strong, clear, succinct technical communication skills (written and verbal) to drive clear decisions and uplevel communication for the team.
Mentor and coach junior and mid-level engineers, helping the team grow sustainably (e.g., by setting up processes/tools that make others successful).
Deep Expertise: BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience, typically involving 8+ years of relevant experience in stream processing or large-scale distributed systems.
Architectural Acumen: Demonstrated strong fundamentals and extensive experience in the architecture, design, and development of a complex engineering system from end to end.
Strategic Influence: Proven ability to lead efforts with a group OR own a deep technical area individually, and effectively align small groups on technical direction.
Cloud Native Knowledge: Strong understanding of cloud engineering principles, including building and operating mission-critical systems in public cloud environments.
Polyglot Proficiency: Proficiency in Go, Java, Scala, or Rust with the ability to contribute technically to development in these languages.
Specialized Domain Knowledge: Deep expertise in the design, implementation, and optimization of large-scale, fault-tolerant state management systems, distributed storage systems, or high-throughput messaging systems.
Open Source Engagement: Recognized, impactful technical contributions to open-source stream processing projects, particularly Apache Flink.
Cloud Operations: Hands-on experience designing and operating Kubernetes operators for distributed applications.
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 Stream Processing & Analytics (SPA) team is building an elastic, reliable, durable, cost-effective, and performant stream processing engine based on Apache Flink for Confluent Cloud. 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LET’S GET IN MOTION.\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\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.
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\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\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\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\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\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/.","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":"$282.5K – $339K • Offers Equity","scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":"$282.5K - $339K","compensationTiers":[{"id":"22018d07-ed6c-4f34-9ccb-f81c8eae6d09","tierSummary":"$282.5K – $339K • Offers Equity","title":null,"additionalInformation":null,"components":[{"id":"8f2eb12b-cf7a-482d-b91b-cf574c1636a6","summary":"Offers Equity","compensationType":"EquityCashValue","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"USD","minValue":null,"maxValue":null},{"id":"a3e26c24-89e6-4a32-ba15-be12a85f9156","summary":"$282.5K – $339K","compensationType":"Salary","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"USD","minValue":282500,"maxValue":339000}]}],"summaryComponents":[{"compensationType":"EquityCashValue","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"USD","minValue":null,"maxValue":null},{"compensationType":"Salary","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"USD","minValue":282500,"maxValue":339000}]}},{"id":"a081a7bf-9bee-4ffa-a7a6-f2a574203b79","title":"Senior Director, Business Technology Engineering","department":"Business Technology","team":"Business Technology","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"IN Office Bangalore","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":false,"secondaryLocations":[{"location":"Bangalore, India","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":"India","addressLocality":"Bangalore"}}}],"publishedAt":"2026-03-27T00:17:28.243+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"Karnātaka","addressCountry":"India","addressLocality":"Bengaluru"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/confluent/a081a7bf-9bee-4ffa-a7a6-f2a574203b79","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/confluent/a081a7bf-9bee-4ffa-a7a6-f2a574203b79/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's Business Technology team is scaling, and we're looking for a Senior Director of Business Technology Engineering to lead the charge. Reporting directly to the CIO, this role owns the engineering organization responsible for the platforms that power our most critical business systems — from development through QA and release. You will lead a team of Salesforce and NetSuite developers, QA and release engineers, and internal tooling and AI builders, ensuring delivery that is fast, reliable, and built to scale. This is a high-visibility leadership role with direct influence across GTM, Finance, and Customer Support systems, and a mandate to raise the bar on engineering excellence across the Business Technology organization.
Lead and develop a team of Salesforce/NetSuite developers, QA/release engineers, and internal tooling and AI developers — setting a high bar for delivery quality, engineering standards, and team growth
Own the end-to-end engineering lifecycle across Business Technology — from development and QA through release — ensuring systems are reliable, scalable, and aligned to business outcomes
Drive a culture of developer velocity and continuous improvement, championing CI/CD practices, automated testing, and AI-assisted development workflows across the organization
Serve as a senior engineering voice to the CIO and cross-functional business leaders, providing visibility into delivery performance, risks, and opportunities to innovate
Partner with recruiting and people leadership to attract, develop, and retain top engineering talent in a competitive market
Serve as the operational anchor for the Business Technology engineering hub — owning team health, delivery cadence, and site culture in partnership with global leadership
5+ years of experience leading engineering teams responsible for enterprise SaaS platforms, with a track record of delivering high-quality systems at scale
Proven ability to lead multi-functional engineering teams spanning development, QA, and release management across Tier 1 business applications
Strong delivery instincts — experienced in capacity planning, SDLC management, and driving engineering performance in a fast-moving, globally distributed organization
Demonstrated success partnering with senior business stakeholders across GTM, Finance, or Customer Support to translate requirements into reliable, scalable systems
Track record of building inclusive, high-trust engineering cultures where teams grow, deliver, and do their best work
Hands-on background with enterprise platforms such as Salesforce, NetSuite, or consumption-based billing systems like Metronome
Experience building or scaling internal developer tooling, automation, or AI-powered capabilities within a business technology or enterprise engineering context
Familiarity with consumption or usage-based SaaS business models and the systems that support forecasting, billing, and revenue operations
Prior experience standing up or scaling a greenfield engineering site — with the organizational savvy to navigate ambiguity and build structure where little exists
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 Business Technology team is scaling, and we're looking for a Senior Director of Business Technology Engineering to lead the charge. Reporting directly to the CIO, this role owns the engineering organization responsible for the platforms that power our most critical business systems — from development through QA and release. You will lead a team of Salesforce and NetSuite developers, QA and release engineers, and internal tooling and AI builders, ensuring delivery that is fast, reliable, and built to scale. This is a high-visibility leadership role with direct influence across GTM, Finance, and Customer Support systems, and a mandate to raise the bar on engineering excellence across the Business Technology organization.\n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL DO:\n\n - Lead and develop a team of Salesforce/NetSuite developers, QA/release engineers, and internal tooling and AI developers — setting a high bar for delivery quality, engineering standards, and team growth\n\n - Own the end-to-end engineering lifecycle across Business Technology — from development and QA through release — ensuring systems are reliable, scalable, and aligned to business outcomes\n\n - Drive a culture of developer velocity and continuous improvement, championing CI/CD practices, automated testing, and AI-assisted development workflows across the organization\n\n - Serve as a senior engineering voice to the CIO and cross-functional business leaders, providing visibility into delivery performance, risks, and opportunities to innovate\n\n - Partner with recruiting and people leadership to attract, develop, and retain top engineering talent in a competitive market\n\n - Serve as the operational anchor for the Business Technology engineering hub — owning team health, delivery cadence, and site culture in partnership with global leadership\n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL BRING:\n\n - 5+ years of experience leading engineering teams responsible for enterprise SaaS platforms, with a track record of delivering high-quality systems at scale\n\n - Proven ability to lead multi-functional engineering teams spanning development, QA, and release management across Tier 1 business applications\n\n - Strong delivery instincts — experienced in capacity planning, SDLC management, and driving engineering performance in a fast-moving, globally distributed organization\n\n - Demonstrated success partnering with senior business stakeholders across GTM, Finance, or Customer Support to translate requirements into reliable, scalable systems\n\n - Track record of building inclusive, high-trust engineering cultures where teams grow, deliver, and do their best work\n\n\nWHAT GIVES YOU AN EDGE:\n\n - Hands-on background with enterprise platforms such as Salesforce, NetSuite, or consumption-based billing systems like Metronome\n\n - Experience building or scaling internal developer tooling, automation, or AI-powered capabilities within a business technology or enterprise engineering context\n\n - Familiarity with consumption or usage-based SaaS business models and the systems that support forecasting, billing, and revenue operations\n\n - Prior experience standing up or scaling a greenfield engineering site — with the organizational savvy to navigate ambiguity and build structure where little exists\n\n\nREADY TO BUILD WHAT'S NEXT? LET’S GET IN MOTION.\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\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.
This is a role leading our Kora Global team, the group behind Confluent’s multi‑region replication stack for Confluent Cloud. That includes technologies like Cluster Linking and Multi‑Region Clusters, which are the backbone for customers who need disaster recovery, global data sharing, and aggregation across regions, clouds, and continents.
You would own the vision and multi‑year roadmap for Kora Global, deciding how we evolve our replication capabilities, improve reliability and performance, and support new DR and global footprint use cases. You’d lead and grow a team of distributed systems engineers, responsible not just for building features but also for operating a large fleet of mission‑critical clusters across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
Operational excellence is a huge part of the job: you'll be accountable for meeting and exceeding SLAs for some of our most critical services, driving root cause analyses, and implementing long‑term fixes that improve security, reliability, and performance. You’d also work closely with product management and other engineering leaders across Kafka/Kora, networking, and control plane to deliver cross‑team initiatives - everything from improved DR experiences to new multi‑region capabilities for our largest customers.
What success looks like in 6–12 months:
A clear multi‑year strategy and technical roadmap for Kora Global is defined, socialized, and actively being executed.
The team has delivered at least one major cross‑team initiative that measurably improves reliability, performance, scalability, or multi‑tenancy of multi‑region replication.
SLA metrics for Kora Global services (availability, RPO/RTO, latency) are stable or improving for mission‑critical cloud services.
The team is fully staffed and high‑performing, with clear expectations, strong coaching, and a high bar on talent and performance.
Demonstrated operational excellence: strong on‑call practices, high‑quality RCAs, and visible reduction in repeat incidents and toil.
Ideal Candidate Profile:
Experience with large-scale distributed systems, especially Kafka or similar streaming platforms.
Strong background in cloud infrastructure, automation, and orchestration.
Proficiency in designing, migrating, and operating control plane APIs and services.
Familiarity with security best practices (RBAC, mTLS, S2S).
Track record of driving reliability, operational excellence, and incident response in production environments.
Ability to collaborate across engineering, product, and operations teams.
Why It Matters (Business Impact):
Kora Orchestration is central to ensuring Confluent Cloud’s Kafka platform is reliable, scalable, and secure for enterprise customers.
The team’s work directly impacts customer experience, operational efficiency, and the ability to deliver new features at scale.
By modernizing orchestration and control plane components, the team reduces operational toil, accelerates incident recovery, and supports strategic business continuity and security initiatives.
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\nThis is a role leading our Kora Global team, the group behind Confluent’s multi‑region replication stack for Confluent Cloud. 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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 an Engineering Manager to lead a critical team within the Connect organization. This team builds and operates Confluent connectors that integrate with major cloud providers such as AWS, GCP and Azure, along with a wide range of data systems including databases, object stores and SaaS platforms.
As customers increasingly rely on fully managed Confluent connectors to move data into and out of Kafka, this team sits at the center of that experience, owning reliability, scalability and ease of use across a growing ecosystem of integrations.
This role is suited for an engineering manager who enjoys staying close to technology while growing their impact. You will lead a team of 6 to 10 engineers, drive execution across initiatives and contribute to the roadmap with product and engineering leadership. We are looking for someone thoughtful, pragmatic and collaborative, comfortable with ambiguity, invested in team growth and motivated to build scalable systems for real world data challenges.
Own execution for the Connect engineering team and deliver high quality connectors and platform improvements
Lead, coach and grow a team of 6 to 10 engineers while building a culture of ownership and continuous improvement
Work closely with product management and senior engineering leaders to contribute to roadmap planning and technical direction
Drive improvements in connector reliability, performance and operational excellence across cloud environments
Stay close to system design and architecture and step in hands on when needed to guide or unblock the team
Help evolve shared frameworks, tooling and development patterns so that building new connectors becomes faster and more consistent
Collaborate with SRE and support teams to improve observability, on call experience and overall operational health
Explore and introduce AI assisted engineering practices to improve developer productivity and workflows
Balance delivery of new features with investments in technical debt, scalability and long term maintainability
10+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 3 years in an engineering management or tech leadership role
Strong foundation in distributed systems, data platforms or integration systems such as pipelines, messaging systems or connectors
Experience delivering and operating production systems, along with exposure to managing multiple parallel workstreams
Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP or Azure and the broader data ecosystem
Ability to work effectively with cross functional teams and influence outcomes through collaboration
Experience hiring, mentoring and growing engineers at different levels
Strong execution skills with the ability to prioritize, make tradeoffs and deliver iteratively
Interest in improving engineering productivity, including the use of modern tooling such as AI assisted workflows
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent experience
Experience with Apache Kafka or Confluent connectors
Experience building or operating connectors or data integration systems
Familiarity with Kubernetes or cloud native systems
Experience with Java or other JVM based technologies
Exposure to stream processing technologies such as Kafka Streams or Flink
Contributions to open source 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.
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LET’S GET IN MOTION.\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\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.
We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer I to lead the design and delivery of core control-plane infrastructure that powers Confluent Cloud. In this role you will own highly technical projects across multiple services and teams, shaping the architecture and reliability of our cloud platform. You’ll combine deep distributed systems expertise with strong execution and cross‑team leadership, identifying high‑leverage problems and driving them from idea to durable impact.
Own end‑to‑end architecture and delivery of complex control‑plane systems (APIs, controllers, orchestration workflows, data models) that support Confluent Cloud products.
Lead open‑ended technical initiatives: take ambiguous problems, clarify requirements, define the approach, and drive execution across teams and services.
Raise the bar on reliability and operations by building resilient systems with strong observability, clear SLOs, runbooks, and safe rollout/rollback patterns.
Collaborate across orgs (Cloud Platform, Kafka, Compute, Security, Traffic, SRE and others) to align on designs, trade‑offs, and long‑term platform direction.
Mentor and unblock engineers at multiple levels; provide high‑quality design and code reviews, and help grow the broader engineering team.
Continuously improve developer experience for our control‑plane stack (tooling, automation, CI/CD, test strategy) to remove toil and increase velocity.
Influence technical strategy in your domain: identify high‑impact opportunities, propose roadmaps, and help prioritize work aligned with business goals.
Contribute to engineering culture via documentation, design reviews, and knowledge sharing (internal talks, wikis, or external content where appropriate).
Experienced builder: Typically 6+ years of software engineering experience, with a strong track record of delivering complex backend or distributed systems to production.
Distributed systems & cloud expert: Deep hands‑on experience with at least some of:
Distributed systems design (consistency models, failure modes, data modeling, scalability).
Cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and cloud‑native architectures.
Kubernetes or similar orchestration platforms.
Strong systems and coding skills: Proficiency in one or more of Go, Java or Scala, and comfort working across services, infrastructure, and automation.
Architect & executor: Able to define end‑to‑end designs, break them into milestones, de‑risk early, and land them on time with high quality.
Operationally rigorous: You think in terms of SLOs, failure modes, observability, and incident response; you design for safe change and graceful degradation.
Great communicator: You write clear design docs, explain trade‑offs crisply, and can lead technical discussions with diverse stakeholders (engineers, PMs, leadership).
Leader without authority: You’ve successfully led cross‑team projects, influenced technical direction beyond your immediate code, and helped others level up.
Values‑aligned: You care about customer impact, reliability, long‑term maintainability, and helping the team win, not just shipping features.
Experience building control‑plane systems (APIs, operators/controllers, metadata services, provisioning/orchestration workflows).
Background with Apache Kafka or other streaming/data systems.
Prior work on multi‑region, high‑availability, or disaster‑recovery architectures.
Experience in security‑sensitive infrastructure (identity, certificates, secrets, mTLS, policy) or compliance‑driven environments.
Contributions to open source projects, public talks, or technical blogs in relevant areas.
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’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer I to lead the design and delivery of core control-plane infrastructure that powers Confluent Cloud. In this role you will own highly technical projects across multiple services and teams, shaping the architecture and reliability of our cloud platform. You’ll combine deep distributed systems expertise with strong execution and cross‑team leadership, identifying high‑leverage problems and driving them from idea to durable impact.\n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL DO:\n\n - Own end‑to‑end architecture and delivery of complex control‑plane systems (APIs, controllers, orchestration workflows, data models) that support Confluent Cloud products.\n\n - Lead open‑ended technical initiatives: take ambiguous problems, clarify requirements, define the approach, and drive execution across teams and services.\n\n - Raise the bar on reliability and operations by building resilient systems with strong observability, clear SLOs, runbooks, and safe rollout/rollback patterns.\n\n - Collaborate across orgs (Cloud Platform, Kafka, Compute, Security, Traffic, SRE and others) to align on designs, trade‑offs, and long‑term platform direction.\n\n - Mentor and unblock engineers at multiple levels; provide high‑quality design and code reviews, and help grow the broader engineering team.\n\n - Continuously improve developer experience for our control‑plane stack (tooling, automation, CI/CD, test strategy) to remove toil and increase velocity.\n\n - Influence technical strategy in your domain: identify high‑impact opportunities, propose roadmaps, and help prioritize work aligned with business goals.\n\n - Contribute to engineering culture via documentation, design reviews, and knowledge sharing (internal talks, wikis, or external content where appropriate).\n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL BRING:\n\n - Experienced builder: Typically 6+ years of software engineering experience, with a strong track record of delivering complex backend or distributed systems to production.\n\n - Distributed systems & cloud expert: Deep hands‑on experience with at least some of:\n\n - Distributed systems design (consistency models, failure modes, data modeling, scalability).\n\n - Cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and cloud‑native architectures.\n\n - Kubernetes or similar orchestration platforms.\n\n - Strong systems and coding skills: Proficiency in one or more of Go, Java or Scala, and comfort working across services, infrastructure, and automation.\n\n - Architect & executor: Able to define end‑to‑end designs, break them into milestones, de‑risk early, and land them on time with high quality.\n\n - Operationally rigorous: You think in terms of SLOs, failure modes, observability, and incident response; you design for safe change and graceful degradation.\n\n - Great communicator: You write clear design docs, explain trade‑offs crisply, and can lead technical discussions with diverse stakeholders (engineers, PMs, leadership).\n\n - Leader without authority: You’ve successfully led cross‑team projects, influenced technical direction beyond your immediate code, and helped others level up.\n\n - Values‑aligned: You care about customer impact, reliability, long‑term maintainability, and helping the team win, not just shipping features.\n\n\nWHAT GIVES YOU AN EDGE:\n\n - Experience building control‑plane systems (APIs, operators/controllers, metadata services, provisioning/orchestration workflows).\n\n - Background with Apache Kafka or other streaming/data systems.\n\n - Prior work on multi‑region, high‑availability, or disaster‑recovery architectures.\n\n - Experience in security‑sensitive infrastructure (identity, certificates, secrets, mTLS, policy) or compliance‑driven environments.\n\n - Contributions to open source projects, public talks, or technical blogs in relevant areas.\n\n\nREADY TO BUILD WHAT'S NEXT? LET’S GET IN MOTION.\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\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/.","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":"CA$225.1K – CA$264.5K • Offers Equity","scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":"CA$225.1K - CA$264.5K","compensationTiers":[{"id":"6b2cd541-f729-45c9-81b0-d187351ef996","tierSummary":"CA$225.1K – CA$264.5K • Offers Equity","title":null,"additionalInformation":null,"components":[{"id":"529d800f-6ea6-4504-bd2e-4a46e173f521","summary":"CA$225.1K – CA$264.5K","compensationType":"Salary","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"CAD","minValue":225100,"maxValue":264500},{"id":"249575f0-f90d-46bc-8849-d1ddc6687f08","summary":"Offers Equity","compensationType":"EquityCashValue","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"CAD","minValue":null,"maxValue":null}]}],"summaryComponents":[{"compensationType":"Salary","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"CAD","minValue":225100,"maxValue":264500},{"compensationType":"EquityCashValue","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"CAD","minValue":null,"maxValue":null}]}},{"id":"dc52dfa1-1649-442c-9344-609b8f01ed4b","title":"Senior Product Manager, Cloud Networking","department":"Product","team":"Product","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Remote, United States","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":true,"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\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\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\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\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\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/.","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":"$193.2K – $227K • Offers Equity","scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":"$193.2K - $227K","compensationTiers":[{"id":"9fc5d90f-6826-4751-ab1c-a490173fef43","tierSummary":"$193.2K – $227K • Offers Equity","title":null,"additionalInformation":null,"components":[{"id":"745f08f8-3cad-47be-926a-875f16d1d9c0","summary":"$193.2K – $227K","compensationType":"Salary","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"USD","minValue":193200,"maxValue":227000},{"id":"97d8e699-03e8-4f60-9f40-590fd7924ce0","summary":"Offers Equity","compensationType":"EquityCashValue","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"USD","minValue":null,"maxValue":null}]}],"summaryComponents":[{"compensationType":"Salary","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"USD","minValue":193200,"maxValue":227000},{"compensationType":"EquityCashValue","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"USD","minValue":null,"maxValue":null}]}}],"apiVersion":"1"}