Senior Manager of Detection & Response, Confluent
Security Engineering
$241.7-319k
+ Equity
Data streaming platform
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Data streaming platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$241.7-319k
+ 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
- If you are passionate about building real-time, high-throughput security automation and fostering an engineering-first incident response culture, this role is for you
- 12+ years of experience in software development, security engineering, or security operations, with 5+ years in direct engineering or security management
- Proven track record of building, coaching, and scaling engineering teams across multiple time zones
- Deep technical domain expertise across detection engineering, incident response, and threat intelligence. Experience building or operating scalable data/event pipelines, modern telemetry stacks, or stream-processing architectures
- Demonstrated ability to lead complex, high-severity security incidents with composure, clarity, and cross-functional leadership
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with a proven ability to translate complex security risks into clear strategic priorities for engineering leadership
- Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Engineering, or equivalent experience
- Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion
What the job involves
- We are seeking an experienced engineering leader to head our Detection & Response organization within Infrastructure Security
- In this role, you will define the strategic vision, technical roadmap, and operational execution for how Confluent detects, investigates, and responds to security threats across our multi-cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- You will lead and grow a distributed team of high-performing engineers across North America and India
- Our team applies modern engineering principles to security—leveraging scalable Kubernetes pipelines, custom ETL jobs, AI-assisted triage workflows, and Confluent’s own data-streaming platform (Kafka) as our central transport
- Own the strategic vision and roadmap execution for Confluent's Detection & Response program across our multi-cloud infrastructure
- Build, scale, and mentor a distributed, global team across North America and India
- Drive the evolution of detection engineering and incident response capabilities by utilizing modern software practices with an emphasis on large scale automation
- Oversee security incident response operations, serving as an escalation point/Incident Commander during high-severity security events and driving post-incident reviews
- Establish or improve operational metrics to continuously evaluate and improve program maturity
- Partner closely with Engineering, and stakeholders across Legal and Compliance teams, to integrate detection telemetry and proactive response across the company
- Champion an engineering-centric security culture focused on automation, noise reduction, and continuous improvement to minimize operational toil for responders
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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