Director of Engineering, Confluent
Cloud Reliability
$297-356.4k
+ Annual bonus and equity
Data streaming platform
Job no longer available
Data streaming platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$297-356.4k
+ Annual bonus and 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
- 15+ years of experience in software development and 8+ years in management
- Experience with architecting distributed cloud systems at scale with a proactive focus towards resiliency and reliability
- Experience driving broad, cross-cutting horizontal initiatives requiring alignment on goals, resourcing, delivery timeframes, etc
- Ability to hire while ensuring a high hiring bar, keep engineers motivated, coach/mentor, and handle performance management
- A great track record of timely shipping features and have a sense of urgency, an aggressive mindset towards achieving results, and excellent prioritization skills
- Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent
What the job involves
- As Confluent grows and requires increasingly complex architecture, the CAR team is at the center of the conversation, bringing together scalability, efficiency, and resiliency concerns across all of our cloud pillars to ensure the best customer experience on our streaming data platform
- You will be responsible for further defining the vision of the Cloud Reliability charter, growing and coaching the team, and planning and driving cross-team efforts to solve complex distributed system challenges at scale
- Own the overall vision and execution for the Cloud Reliability team
- Define the strategy and roadmap for critical initiatives in production change control, release management and safety, incident response and supportability, and operational standards
- Own and manage the operations of our FedRAMP cloud offering
- Drive initiatives related to BCP/DR and reliability risk management
- Work with account teams and customers to directly discuss reliability objectives and practices to build customer trust
- Deliver high impact to the business by driving important technical initiatives in areas comprising security, reliability, multi-tenancy, architectural direction, and major component refactor across organizational boundaries
- Influence the overall domain health and operational hygiene for Confluent Cloud, including reductions in critical KPIs such as MTTR/MTTD and incident volume
- Partner with our Global Support team to align self-service objectives with administrative interfaces and tooling
- Make pragmatic tradeoffs and recommendations, focused on ROI-based investments and objective
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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