Jobs at Confluent

Design, implement, and maintain Golang infrastructure services for Confluent Cloud. Ensure availability, performance, and capacity planning of cloud systems while collaborating with engineering teams.

Design and maintain Golang infrastructure services for the Confluent Cloud Platform, ensuring performance, availability, and capacity planning of the service.

The Staff Product Manager for Cloud Networking will own the platform strategy for data connectivity and drive architectural decisions for Confluent Cloud across multiple cloud services and networking models, while aligning stakeholders and mentoring team members.

The Senior Product Manager will oversee cloud networking initiatives, ensuring user-friendly connectivity in Confluent Cloud, and manage product lifecycle from conception to launch, focusing on usability and cost efficiency.

The Staff Software Engineer will lead the architecture and implementation of internal web applications, manage complex cross-team initiatives, and mentor engineers to optimize performance and usability.

As a Staff Product Manager at Confluent, you'll lead major product initiatives, ensure effective communication across teams, and enhance the product strategy for Kafka Connect, aiming for successful enterprise-grade integrations.

Lead a globally distributed team to manage a cloud-native networking orchestration layer, driving innovation in data streaming infrastructure and cross-cloud connectivity.

The Senior Release Engineer manages end-to-end Salesforce release processes, ensuring high-quality, compliant deployments while coordinating with various teams and driving continuous improvement in release management.

Lead and grow an engineering organization responsible for a large-scale, real-time metrics platform. Drive technical strategy to scale metrics infrastructure, evolve APIs and datasets, ensure 99.99%+ availability and sub-second queries, mentor engineers, manage hiring/performance, and collaborate across telemetry, cloud infrastructure, and product teams to deliver observability solutions.

Enable customers and prospects to use Confluent Cloud by producing code samples, guides, articles, webinars, and one-on-one technical support. Build and maintain examples integrating Kafka and Flink with AI/ML tools, collaborate with product and engineering teams, troubleshoot performance, and engage in community forums to educate and onboard users.

The Senior Software Engineer II will design and develop cloud-native backend systems for Stream Governance, mentor engineers, and solve complex data challenges in a team-focused environment.

The Principal Engineer will lead AI-driven productivity initiatives, develop a strategy for integrating AI in engineering workflows, and improve collaboration across teams. Responsibilities include executing projects, ensuring code quality, and setting success metrics.

The role entails leading technical sales solutions, conducting proof of concept presentations, and guiding customer use-cases for Confluent's data streaming technology, while collaborating with product teams and building strong customer relationships.

Lead multi-year product strategy and execution for Apache Flink across Confluent Cloud and Platform. Align product, engineering, GTM, and executives; identify 0-to-1 opportunities across streaming, AI, and data engineering; define integrations across Confluent and IBM portfolios; and drive product lifecycle from early market fit to scale.

Lead architecture and delivery of Confluent Platform features (notably Unified Stream Manager) for hybrid/on‑prem/cloud deployments. Drive design, code, reviews, and reliability for large-scale distributed systems, mentor senior engineers, collaborate cross-org, handle high-severity production incidents, and shape long-term platform roadmap.

Lead the technical vision and architecture for Internal Access Management, ensuring secure, auditable authorization across engineering systems. Mentor others and drive adoption of secure identity patterns in cloud environments.

Build scalable and performant backend services for a monetization platform, enhancing product features and supporting usage-based billing in a cloud environment.

The Senior Software Engineer II will design and implement complex backend systems for a data streaming platform, lead technical projects, and mentor engineers in a cloud-native environment.

The Staff Software Engineer will enhance Apache Kafka features, mentor engineers, collaborate with the community, and ensure software quality and reliability.

The Senior Software Engineer II will work on building highly available, secure, and scalable compute layers for Kora, a managed data streaming service, while addressing complex distributed systems challenges.