Senior Engineering Manager – Metrics Platform
Confluent
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: India
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About the role
- Build, lead, and grow a high-performing engineering organization responsible for one of Confluent's most critical services
- Lead the technical strategy to scale our metrics infrastructure to handle 10x data volume over the next 2 years
- Drive the roadmap for new metrics datasets, query capabilities, and integration patterns
- Ensure 99.99%+ availability, sub-second query performance, and seamless incident response
- Partner with multiple teams across Telemetry, Cloud Infrastructure, and Product to deliver end-to-end observability solutions
- Define and execute the multi-year technical roadmap for the Metrics Platform, including Data infrastructure cluster evolution, data retention strategies, and query optimization
- Build, mentor, and grow a world-class engineering team
- Partner with Product Management to define and prioritize the Metrics API roadmap based on customer needs and business impact
- Align with Confluent's broader observability strategy across Cloud and Platform offerings
- Establish metrics and KPIs to measure system performance, system reliability, and customer satisfaction
Requirements
- 14+ years of overall experience in software development and engineering
- 4+ years of engineering management experience, leading productive, high-performing teams
- Experience operating large-scale distributed systems in production environments (preferably cloud-native)
- Demonstrated ability to hire and retain top engineering talent, provide impactful coaching, and drive high-performance results
- Proven track record of shipping features consistently and meeting aggressive deadlines with a high degree of urgency
- Exceptional prioritization skills with the ability to balance short-term execution with a long-term strategic vision for technical evolution
- Exceptional communication and collaboration skills, with a focus on building a positive, inclusive team culture aligned with organizational goals
- Solid fundamentals in distributed systems design, replication protocols, and high-availability production operations
- Deep familiarity with Kafka or similar high-scale event streaming platforms (Pulsar, Flink, etc.) in cloud environments
- Experience operating complex architectures across large public clouds (AWS, GCP, Azure) or private cloud-native infrastructures
- Strong engineering background with a hands-on approach to technology and a passion for architectural deep-dives.
Benefits
- Come As You Are
- Equal opportunity workplace
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
software developmentengineering managementdistributed systems designreplication protocolshigh-availability operationsmetrics infrastructurequery optimizationdata retention strategiesevent streaming platformscloud-native architectures
Soft Skills
leadershipcoachingprioritizationcommunicationcollaborationteam culture buildingstrategic visionproblem-solvingmentoringhigh-performance results