Jobs at Confluent

Design, build, scale, and operate a Kafka-compatible, object-storage-backed streaming platform. Own backend services, storage engine, multi-tenant control plane, transactions and multi-region features. Troubleshoot complex distributed systems, ensure operational readiness and SLAs, participate in on-call rotation, and contribute across the full stack including developer console UI.

Develop and manage control plane services for Flink, focusing on orchestration and reliability. Responsibilities include code quality, mentoring, and communication across teams.

Lead a team developing the Flink Control Plane, managing job orchestration, architectural leadership, and mentoring engineers while ensuring code quality and operational excellence.

Design and implement scalable storage engine features (schematization, materialization, compaction) and build multi-tenant, highly available compute infrastructure for background storage tasks. Ensure platform reliability, scalability, and integration with product and engineering teams across Confluent Cloud.

Lead the Cloud Networking Product team to enhance the connectivity of Confluent Cloud. Responsibilities include product lifecycle management, user analysis, and collaboration across teams to ensure successful product initiatives.

The Staff Software Engineer I - SRE role involves proactive reliability engineering, incident management, and cross-team leadership to enhance data stream reliability for Confluent Cloud.

Build and operate large-scale, high-performance infrastructure to run AI inference and agents on real-time streaming data. Design scalable, reliable serving layers, solve distributed-systems challenges, and optimize across cloud providers.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

This role involves driving the vision and strategy for Confluent's API platform, focusing on developer experience, and managing cross-team initiatives. Responsibilities include understanding user needs, simplifying API interactions, and ensuring product adoption.