Lead a highly productive, global team of software engineers and engineering leaders
Drive the long-term direction and strategy of Governance in Confluent, while partnering with internal stakeholders to drive the team’s mission forward
Create competitive advantages for Confluent by driving technical innovation in governance and adjacent technologies.
Drive improvements in schema management, and enforcement including enabling a shift from thick to thin clients.
Continue a strong growth trajectory by hiring top tier engineers, and establish quality standards, design principles, and operational maturity for the team

Requirements

10+ years of second-level engineering management experience leading productive, high-functioning teams.
Maintain a high hiring bar while recruiting, motivating engineers, coaching/mentoring, and managing performance.
Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development.
A great track record of shipping features and hitting deadlines consistently.
Sense of urgency, an aggressive mindset towards achieving results, and excellent prioritization skills.
Able to anticipate future technical needs for the product and craft plans to realize them, guided by our customers.
A sense of vision and strategy to see around corners and set our customers up for long term success through technical and product innovation over multiple years
Preferred experience running production services in public clouds
Ability to influence the team, peers, and upper management using effective communication and collaborative techniques. Focus on building and maintaining a culture of collaboration within the team.

Benefits

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Hard Skills & Tools

distributed systems designschema managementtechnical innovationengineering managementperformance managementfeature shippingdeadline managementoperational maturitydesign principlescloud services

Soft Skills

leadershipcoachingmentoringprioritizationcommunicationcollaborationstrategic visioninfluencemotivationurgency