Director, Engineering – Traffic & Networking

Confluent

Director Engineering leading Traffic Control-Plane team for data streaming at Confluent. Overseeing network orchestration and managing technical projects with global collaboration.

Posted 5/18/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $297,500 - $357,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudKubernetes

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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.

Requirements

What you’ll need

10+ years of experience leading relatively large (12 or greater) highly technical teams.
Deep technical understanding of cloud infrastructure. Especially Kubernetes, cloud networking.
A background in developing and leading teams that specialize in building high scalable distributed cloud native applications.
Experience building SaaS products and platforms

Benefits

Comp & perks

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Hard Skills & Tools

cloud infrastructureKubernetescloud networkingdistributed cloud native applicationsSaaS productsprogramming interfacedata streaming

Soft Skills

leadershipmentoringtechnical leadcross-team collaborationvision drivingroadmap execution