Jobs at Confluent

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.

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.

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

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design and build high-performance backend services, ensuring operational readiness and improving processes for a data streaming platform.

The Senior Manager, Engineering will lead the Kafka team, oversee cloud-based distributed systems, mentor engineers, drive technical initiatives, and collaborate across teams to enhance performance and scalability.

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.

Lead the development of Confluent's observability features, architect solutions, mentor engineers, ensure quality, and work on large-scale systems in cloud environments.