Principal, Product Manager

Confluent

Principal Product Manager responsible for shaping the product strategy for Apache Flink at Confluent. Leading a high-impact role in a collaborative environment focused on data streaming solutions.

Posted 6/8/2026full-timeRemote • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorLead💰 $273,300 - $328,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

ApacheCloudDistributed SystemsJavaKafkaPythonScalaSparkSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Define and drive the multi-year product strategy and roadmap for Apache Flink across cloud and on-prem products.
Establish structured processes to align product, engineering, GTM, and executive stakeholders.
Identify high-leverage, 0-to-1 product opportunities for Flink and in adjacent areas like AI, data engineering, data warehousing, and event-driven applications.
Define how Confluent Flink offerings will work across Confluent and IBM product portfolio.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Proven ability to own and deliver product strategy for complex cloud data products for customers ranging from data engineers to software developers.
Deep technical expertise in distributed systems, data engineering, and cloud. Domain expertise in streaming technologies such as Kafka, Flink, or Spark is a plus but not required.
Experience leading product development across the entire lifecycle, scaling businesses from early product-market fit to substantial revenue.
10+ years of experience in product management for a technical software or cloud service product.
Hands-on engineering or technical background, including comfort with systems design, API design, and several languages (e.g., Python, Java, Scala, SQL, etc.).
Experience with open-source software and determining commercialization strategy while building the community.
Track record in data infrastructure, analytics, AI/ML platforms, real-time systems, or streaming systems, especially where the product serves customers with a diversity of technical depth.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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Hard Skills & Tools

Apache FlinkKafkaSparkPythonJavaScalaSQLdistributed systemsdata engineeringcloud

Soft Skills

product strategystakeholder alignmentleadershipcommunicationprocess establishmentproduct developmenttechnical expertisecommunity buildingcustomer focusscaling businesses