Senior Engineering Manager, Confluent
CA$271.6-319.1k
Offers Equity
Data streaming platform
Job no longer available
Data streaming platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
CA$271.6-319.1k
Offers Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help every organization harness data in motion so they can compete and thrive in the modern world.
Role
Who you are
- Experience: 13+ years in software development and 6+ years in an engineering management role
- Cloud & Distributed Systems: Proven, hands-on experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems at scale in a major public cloud (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
- Leadership: A track record of leading and nurturing high-performance teams, with strong collaboration skills and the ability to execute against complex, cross-functional roadmaps. The ability to translate a long-term product vision into a concrete technical strategy and roadmap
- Technical Acumen: The ability to "see around corners" to reduce complexity and build enduring technical foundations. A strong bias for action and excellent prioritization skills
- Customer Focus: A strong bias for action and a deep focus on customer outcomes, reliability, and operational excellence
- Education: Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent
- Experience with global data replication or multi-region service architectures is a big plus
What the job involves
- We are seeking a senior, technically-deep leader for our Kora Global engineering team
- This team builds and operates Confluent's multi-region replication capabilities including technologies such as Cluster Linking and Multi Region Clusters (MRC), enabling seamless, reliable data movement across regions, clouds, and continents
- These systems are foundational to Confluent Cloud's Kafka service and allow our customers to build globally connected and resilient applications and enable their most critical use cases including Disaster Recovery, Global data sharing and data aggregation
- You will be leading the team that manages a fleet of thousands of clusters across AWS, GCP, and Azure, solving some of the most complex challenges in distributed systems at a massive scale
- You will be directly responsible for defining the vision, building the roadmap, and driving critical cross-team efforts to deliver on an ambitious charter
- Own the Vision & Execution: Define and drive the multi-year strategy and technical roadmap for Kora Global
- Lead & Mentor: Grow, coach, and nurture a high-performance team of distributed systems engineers. You will be responsible for hiring, performance management, and keeping a high bar for talent
- Drive High-Impact Results: Lead critical technical initiatives focused on reliability, performance, scalability, and multi-tenancy. You will be accountable for meeting and exceeding the SLAs for our most critical cloud services
- Foster Operational Excellence: Champion a strong culture of ownership and continuous improvement. You will lead effective root cause analyses and implement corrective actions to improve the security, reliability, and performance of your services
- Collaborate & Influence: Work closely with product management, engineering leadership, and stakeholders across Confluent. You will align roadmaps and foster strong partnerships to solve complex challenges that cross organizational boundaries
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.
Now, it looks like IBM is eyeing the company for acquisition and Confluent looks to be a natural fit. Long positioned as the real-time backbone behind modern application, Confluent would gain global scale and an even deeper enterprise reach under iBM, while cementing its role at the center of AI-driven architectures. For COnfluent, the deal would marka shift from fast-growing independent disruptor to foundational infrastructure player powering the next wave of enterprise AI.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Apr 2020
$250m
SERIES E
Jan 2019
$125m
SERIES D
Total funding: $455.9m
Company HQ
Old Mountain View, Mountain View, CA
Leadership
Jay Kreps
(Co-Founder & CEO)Prior to co-founding Confluent in 2014, Jay spent 7 years at LinkedIn, holding various roles including Principal Engineer and Principal Staff Engineer.
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