Confluent

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

Full-stack 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).
• 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.

Senior Software Engineer

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 Release Engineer – Salesforce

• Define and evangelize the AI and agentic flows strategy — aligning business metrics, engineering needs, and platform opportunities.
• Build a roadmap for introducing agentic automation features, smart assistants, and AI-driven workflows across all aspects of engineering.
• Identify and resolve bottlenecks across the entire product and software development life cycle.
• Partner with Engineering, Trust and Security to integrate AI capabilities responsibly and at scale.
• Operationalize AI adoption internally and share use cases externally.
• Drive complex cross-team projects requiring multi-stakeholder alignment.
• Continuously raise the bar for code/architectural quality across engineering.
• Lead the delivery of core agentic workflows that improves productivity across engineering.
• Balance of hands-on contributions with effective delegation to others. Expect 60% execution and 40% strategy setting.
• Drive measurable adoption of AI tooling and flows with internal teams.
• Ability to adopt industry standards, ethical frameworks, guardrails, and quality metrics for AI behavior and automated flows.
• Define success metrics and KPIs (e.g., AI-driven usage lift, automation ROI, reduction in manual workflows).

Principal Engineer – Engineering AI Productivity

• Build accurate, reliable, scalable, and functionally rich systems in the cloud to support usage-based billing and pricing in the cloud that powers Confluent’s revenue across all products and global markets.
• Work on business-critical flows from ideation to completion by closely collaborating with Product Managers, different engineering and business teams.

• Driven and excited about challenges of delivering complex projects in production with a focus on quality
• Customer focused - making customers more successful by taking on their most challenging problems motivates you
• Have a strong sense of teamwork and able to make decisions which benefit the team and company
• Identify root causes, and get beyond treating symptoms - motivated to dig deep and solve hard problems

Senior Software Engineer II, Kora Compute

Product Operations

• Build the AI-Driven PDLC
• Build, Implement, and Iterate
• Define the Gold Standard
• Bridge Strategy to Execution
• Drive Change and Adoption
• Unify Core Rhythms

Staff Product Operations Manager

Data Analyst

• Own the product strategy for Confluent's streaming analytics engine: storage, materialization, query serving, performance, and developer experience.
• Develop competitive strategy against established real-time analytical databases, articulating Confluent's differentiated value as a streaming-native alternative.
• Drive key architectural and product tradeoffs across consistency, latency, query performance, cost, and developer ergonomics.
• Partner deeply with engineering to navigate the technical complexity of building a new cloud-native data system at scale.
• Collaborate with peer product managers who own downstream experiences including AI, context delivery, and application integration, to ensure the engine meets the needs of the products built on it.
• Work with customers and design partners to validate use cases across real-time analytics, operational applications, and AI, shaping the developer experience and refining go-to-market positioning.
• Collaborate with Confluent's broader product and platform teams to ensure tight integration with Kafka, Flink, and Confluent Cloud.
• Define success metrics, cost models, and pricing strategy for a new product area.
• Influence Confluent's company-wide platform strategy through executive-level communication and cross-functional leadership.

Staff Product Manager, Real Time Data Analytics Platform

Manager

• Lead the Kora Global team, responsible for multi‑region replication stack for Confluent Cloud.
• Own the vision and multi‑year roadmap for Kora Global, evolving replication capabilities and supporting new use cases.
• Lead and grow a team of distributed systems engineers responsible for operating mission‑critical clusters across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
• Drive operational excellence, accountability for meeting SLAs, root cause analyses, and long‑term fixes for security, reliability, and performance improvements.
• Collaborate with product management and engineering leaders to deliver cross‑team initiatives.

Senior Manager, KORA Orchestration, Global

• 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

Senior Engineering Manager, Flink Control Plane

Director, IT

Staff Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer

Director, Engineering – Traffic & Networking

Senior Release Engineer – Salesforce

Principal Engineer – Engineering AI Productivity

Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer II, Kora Compute

Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer

Staff Product Operations Manager

Staff Product Manager, Real Time Data Analytics Platform

Senior Manager, KORA Orchestration, Global

Engineering Manager, Connect