Confluent

AI Engineer

• Design, develop, and operate large-scale, high-performance infrastructure that powers Confluent Cloud.
• Build foundational software to improve reliability, scalability, and efficiency across cloud environments.
• Work on distributed systems challenges such as consensus algorithms, failover strategies, and resource allocation.
• Collaborate with teams across Confluent to optimize and enhance infrastructure for real-time data streaming use cases.
• Troubleshoot and improve system reliability, observability, and performance across multiple cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP).

Senior Software Engineer – Streaming AI

Security Engineer

• Own the strategic direction and roadmap for Confluent's access management program
• Lead the program to enforce service-to-service authentication
• Formalize non-human identity from pilot into a funded, governed program
• Own the Access Management Standard and policies for least privilege
• Define and track program OKRs and articulate risk posture to leadership
• Drive cross-functional delivery with engineering and platform teams
• Ensure the access management program integrates with adjacent GRC domains

Staff Security Risk & Compliance Program Manager – Access Management

Product Manager

• Define and drive the multi-year product strategy and roadmap for Apache Flink across cloud and on-prem products.
• Establish structured processes to align product, engineering, GTM, and executive stakeholders.
• Identify high-leverage, 0-to-1 product opportunities for Flink and in adjacent areas like AI, data engineering, data warehousing, and event-driven applications.
• Define how Confluent Flink offerings will work across Confluent and IBM product portfolio.

Principal, Product Manager

Full-stack Engineer

• Design and implement innovative strategies for table schematization, materialization, and compaction at massive scale.
• Build and maintain multi-tenant, highly available infrastructure that powers background computational tasks for Kora’s long-term storage.
• Collaborate with product management, design, and other engineering teams to ensure seamless integration of storage features and infrastructure with the broader organization.

Senior Software Engineer

Developer Relations

• Understand our users: Collect customers’ feedback, conduct interviews and analyze data to define user journeys, and key jobs to be done for developers, operators, and data scientists.
• Drive the API Platform Strategy & Roadmap to drastically simplify the experience for developers, operators, and data scientists across all Confluent products with AI.
• Define and prioritize key initiatives by linking them to measurable business outcomes (ROI) and validated customer demand.
• Govern the API/CLI/TF interfaces across all Confluent products to offer consistent experiences while empowering product teams to move fast.
• Execute on key initiatives across multiple teams through initial delivery and by driving adoption after launch.
• Close the loop: Define quantitative and qualitative targets, measure performance against them, share results with stakeholders, and incorporate those learnings back into the strategy & product.

Senior Product Manager, Developer Experience

Engineering Manager

• Own the overall roadmap and execution for the Flink Control Plane.
• Lead the ongoing migration of the control plane onto Confluent's latest platform foundations.
• Work with engineering teams on critical aspects of product definition, architectural design, and delivery.
• Drive the control plane's evolution to support 10x growth in compute pools.
• Manage and coach a diverse team.
• Collaborate with engineering leadership and key stakeholders across Confluent Cloud.
• Lead the team in maintaining high code quality and comprehensive test coverage.

Senior Engineering Manager, Flink Control Plane

Director

• Lead and develop the IT organization across Helpdesk, endpoint engineering (laptops, AV, conference rooms), enterprise identity (SSO, MFA, lifecycle), core productivity platforms (Google Workspace, Slack, Zoom, and adjacent SaaS), corporate networking (Meraki), and corporate cloud infrastructure (GCP, AWS, Azure)
• Own the employee technology experience end-to-end — setting and measuring service levels, response times, and CSAT, and using that data to drive continuous improvement
• Modernize and automate the IT operating model — reducing manual ticket work through self-service, identity-driven access workflows, AI-assisted support, and policy-as-code for endpoint and network management
• Partner closely with Security, People, Finance, Engineering, and Workplace teams to deliver onboarding, offboarding, access governance, and compliance commitments (SOX, SOC 2) without friction to employees
• Manage vendor relationships, budget, and capacity planning across the IT portfolio — making clear build/buy/partner decisions and holding partners accountable to outcomes
• Lead the team through growth and change — evolving the operating model, technology footprint, and team structure as the business scales and matures

Director, IT

• Design, develop, and operate large-scale, high-performance infrastructure that powers Confluent Cloud.
• Build foundational software to improve reliability, scalability, and efficiency across cloud environments.
• Work on distributed systems challenges such as consensus algorithms, failover strategies, and resource allocation.
• Collaborate with teams across Confluent to optimize and enhance infrastructure for real-time data streaming use cases.
• Troubleshoot and improve system reliability, observability, and performance across multiple cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Contribute to open-source projects and leverage open-source technologies to drive business impact.

Staff Software Engineer

• 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.

Software Engineer

• Manage a globally distributed team that is responsible for the programmable interface of our networking fabric.
• Act as a technical lead for the team driving vision, roadmap, and execution on various projects.
• Mentor managers as well as ICs, helping them become domain experts in various technologies and products that build our networking fabric as well as enable our customer’s data streaming use-cases.
• Drive cross-team projects, across various product pillars, that have company wide impact in delivering innovative capabilities on our platform and that build differentiation and bring value to our real time streaming customers.

Director, Engineering – Traffic & Networking

DevOps Engineer

• Own and manage the Salesforce release calendar across Dev, QA, UAT, and Production, including weekly/regular release cadences, blackout periods, and emergency/exception releases.
• Plan, coordinate, and execute deployments (metadata, configuration, and where applicable data) using the agreed toolset (e.g., Copado, SFDX, Git-based pipelines, APIs), including pre- and post-deploy steps.
• Serve as the single point of contact for all Salesforce production deployments (core, CPQ, CRMA, managed packages), ensuring tight coordination with Business Systems, GFSA, GTM, and Security teams.
• Enforce SOX-compliant change management: verify change type, approvals, segregation of duties, and evidence before promoting any change to Production.
• Own sandbox and environment strategy: plan and execute refreshes, manage post-refresh activities, environment configuration, and test data readiness for projects and regression testing.
• Coordinate and execute managed package and integration installs/upgrades across environments, including handling service accounts, permission sets, connected apps, and regression validation.
• Maintain and enhance CI/CD and automation for Salesforce releases: standardize pipelines, templates, validation rules, and smoke/regression automation where feasible.
• Monitor, triage, and resolve release-related issues (failed deployments, merge conflicts, metadata inconsistencies), working closely with Dev/QA/Architecture to drive root cause analysis and prevention.
• Maintain clear release documentation and runbooks (checklists, SOPs, backout plans) and keep them up to date with evolving processes and tooling.
• Partner with QA and Business stakeholders to ensure test plans, sign-offs, and production validations are completed and recorded for audits.
• Support internal and external audits related to Salesforce change management, access, and deployment evidence; respond to audit queries with appropriate documentation.
• Identify and drive process improvements in release governance, branching strategy, environment usage, and tooling to improve stability and developer productivity.

Senior Software Engineer – Streaming AI

Staff Security Risk & Compliance Program Manager – Access Management

Principal, Product Manager

Senior Software Engineer

Senior Product Manager, Developer Experience

Senior Engineering Manager, Flink Control Plane

Director, IT

Staff Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer

Director, Engineering – Traffic & Networking

Senior Release Engineer – Salesforce