Principal Engineer, Confluent
Security Platform
$310.5-372.6k
+ Equity
Data streaming platform
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Data streaming platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$310.5-372.6k
+ Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
Founded by the team that built Apache Kafka, their mission is to make managing Kafka easy.
Role
Who you are
- It takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together
- If you’re passionate about security and love thinking about how to enable customers and want to have a big influence on overall platform architecture, you’ll fit right in
- 15+ years of experience in delivering scalable software solutions
- Proven track record of leading the delivery of large-scale, highly available, high throughput, low latency systems
- Deep expertise in cloud-based security and networking
- Deep hands-on expertise in high-scale distributed systems engineering
- Expertise in large-scale operations & best practices
- Expertise in multiple Programming Languages (Java, Go, Python)
- Experience in driving operational excellence for large, production services
- Track record of providing technical mentoring and leadership
- Track record of working collaboratively across teams and roles, including but not limited to product management, UX, and other engineering teams and leaders
What the job involves
- As a Principal Engineer of Confluent's Security Platform, you will work closely with the team and other key stakeholders across the company to design, architect and build secure, multi-cloud, external and internal security controls that keep our customer’s data safe as well as enable new business opportunities across Confluent Cloud (including Kafka, Flink, Connect and more)
- As a senior technical leader, you think strategically and help drive end-to-end technical delivery from great customer experience to amazing operations
- You’re not confined to the status quo and you leverage your expertise in cloud-native, high-scale distributed systems to help take our platform to the next level
- You’re an owner who understands the high operational bar for security systems, and you make sure all the details (availability, reliability, performance, monitoring, emergency response, capacity planning, disaster recovery) have been thought about
- Be part of driving the overall technical charter for the Security Platform -- including external and internal and security systems and cloud infrastructure
- Work closely with product and engineering management to build and drive the overall roadmap for Confluent’s Security Platform to enable new business opportunities
- Design and deliver high impact, security controls that protect Confluent and its customers across all cloud providers and regions we operate in
- Be as a strong technical leader and representative for the Security Platform across the company
- Lead and mentor the team on all aspects of product definition, architectural design, and delivery
- Be an advisor to other Confluent teams on how to secure their customer’s data and applications
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
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Apr 2020
$250m
SERIES E
Jan 2019
$125m
SERIES D
Total funding: $455.9m
Company HQ
Mountain View, California
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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