Senior Manager, KORA Orchestration, Global

Confluent

Lead Kora Global team overseeing multi-region replication for Confluent Cloud. Own vision and roadmap for evolving replication capabilities and operational excellence.

Posted 4/27/2026full-timeRemote • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 CA$271,600 - CA$319,100 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudDistributed SystemsGoogle Cloud PlatformKafka

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Experience with large-scale distributed systems, especially Kafka or similar streaming platforms.
Strong background in cloud infrastructure, automation, and orchestration.
Proficiency in designing, migrating, and operating control plane APIs and services.
Familiarity with security best practices (RBAC, mTLS, S2S).
Track record of driving reliability, operational excellence, and incident response in production environments.
Ability to collaborate across engineering, product, and operations teams.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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Hard Skills & Tools

distributed systemsKafkacloud infrastructureautomationorchestrationcontrol plane APIssecurity best practicesRBACmTLSS2S

Soft Skills

leadershipcollaborationoperational excellenceaccountabilityroot cause analysisincident response