Senior Manager of Software Development, Confluent
Data streaming platform
Open for applications
Data streaming platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
1001+ employees
Company mission
Founded by the team that built Apache Kafka, their mission is to make managing Kafka easy.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate has deep security knowledge and experience in a similar role in the domains of cloud-native distributed system engineering
- 3+ years of Management experience, and 10+ years of distributed systems (preferably focused in stream processing)
- Strong software engineering fundamentals background, especially knowledge of distributed systems and stream processing
- Proven experience in maturing detection capabilities in a cloud-first environment, leveraging best practices for scalability and performance
- Proven experience in maturing operational maintenance practices, especially around deployment and rolling software
- Decision maker with a data-driven mindset and the ability to operate with freedom and autonomy
- The knowledge, experience and perspective necessary to own outcomes, influence stakeholders, and provide effective leadership when it comes to keeping our customers and our product safe
- Ability to own and oversee numerous initiatives, while working collaboratively with a variety of stakeholders, and adjust priorities upon evolving business needs
- Experience in hiring, mentoring, and developing remote teams of high-performing engineers
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Senior Manager to lead and grow our Flink deployment and coordinations team
- Our mission is to deploy, upgrade, deprovision and scale our Flink offering on Confluent Cloud guaranteeing seamless elasticity, cost efficiency and resiliency
- We are a team of engineers combining distributed system, cloud technology and software development skills to build as solid foundation for our Flink based Stream processing product
- In this role you’ll be responsible for managing and expanding the team, setting a vision and technical strategy
- You will work with key partners in our Stream processing unit and Flink engineering teams, and establish partnerships and collaborative relationships with engineering groups building out products in the cloud
- Lead and develop the Deployment and Coordination team, and advance the maturity of our capabilities to ensure a true cloud native stream processing experience
- Help solve distributed system engineering problems in a multi-cloud, multi-region, and multi-account environment leveraged by many engineering teams
- Identify ways to improve the Deployment and Coordination tooling ecosystem, and own key vendor relationships ensuring capabilities can scale with our growth
- Stay up to date on the evolving cloud native landscape and adversarial techniques, and prioritize engineering plans to seamlessly scale Flink on Confluent Cloud
- Improve Incident Response (IR) methodologies to ensure rapid and effective mitigations and remediations of deployment and coordination incidents
- Cultivate and grow a high performing team of engaged engineers who will continue to evolve and build the cloud native aspect of our Flink product
Our take
Confluent is a commercial company built on top of the open-source Apache Kafka project. Confluent and Kafka have developed a streaming data technology that processes massive amounts of information in real-time.
The streaming database technology was developed at LinkedIn as a way of moving massive amounts of messages. The company decided to open-source that tech in 2011, and Confluent launched as the commercial arm in 2014.
While the base open-source component remains available for free download, it doesn’t include the additional tooling the company has built to make it easier for enterprises to use Kafka. Confluent's value add is in those additional tools, including a cloud version of the product and a marketplace for sharing extensions to the platform.
Confluent expanded strategic partnerships with Microsoft and acquired Immerok, and in 2023 expanded its cloud platform. 2024 saw further product expansions with the launch of the Confluent Migration Accelerator, all exemplifying how the company is living up to its name by rocket-boosting the benefits of Apache Kafka integration for companies.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
27% female employees
14% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Apr 2020
$250m
SERIES E
Jan 2019
$125m
SERIES D
Total funding: $455.9m
Company benefits
- Unlimited Holiday
- Delicious Food on us (twice a week)
- Life Insurance & Income Protection Insurance
Company values
- Earn Our Customers' Love - Our customers are the lifeblood of our business and our most important stakeholder. We strive to earn their love with everything we do
- To Build a Great Company, Build a Great Team - We believe that an important part of building a great company is making sure that our employees are the best they can be.
- Smart, Humble, and Empathetic - Our employees appreciate, benefit, and learn from working with other smart, humble, and empathetic people. We strive to hire those who care deeply about others and interact with empathy towards our customers, partners, and employees.
- Be Fired up and Get It Done - As much as we benefit from working with smart, humble, and empathetic employees, we also need to “get it done” to pursue our enormous market opportunity. We are in hyper-growth mode and are scaling to fill the demands of the market and our current and future customers.
- Tasteful not Wasteful - We want to invest in areas that matter the most -- in other words, spend “tastefully,” not wastefully. We believe that thoughtful spending is essential to building a high-quality business.
- One Team - It is critical that we act as and make decisions as a unified company, doing our best to optimize globally rather than locally. This means doing our best to avoid the misalignments that some companies can be prone to. It means recognizing that when employees and teams succeed, Confluent as a whole succeeds.
Company HQ
Mountain View, California
Articles
Leadership
Jay Kreps
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously a Principal Engineer at LinkedIn.
Neha Narkhede
(Co-Founder & Board Member)Previously a Lead Engineer at LinkedIn and Oracle. They are an Investor/advisor for Gem, Block Party, Material Security, Abacus AI, Cortex Data, Yugabyte, Metaphor Data, Natalist, Common Room, and more.
Jun Rao
(Co-Founder)Previously a Senior Engineer at LinkedIn. Has a PhD in Computer Science from Columbia University.
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