Senior Director of Engineering, Confluent
Cloud Security Platform
$321.8-386.1k
+ Equity
Data streaming platform
Open for applications
Data streaming platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$321.8-386.1k
+ 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
- 10+ years of engineering leadership experience managing productive, collaborative, high-functioning teams and demonstrated experience delegating through Directors and Sr Managers
- Experience building, managing and running large scale distributed systems in the cloud
- Experience in building and running customer facing or internal facing identity, authorization and trust infrastructure
- Demonstrated experience in effectively influencing and working with the exec team using effective communication and collaborative techniques
- Demonstrated experience in partnering across functions and domains to deliver on business objectives and KPIs
What the job involves
- We are looking for an experienced technologist who can run the Confluent Cloud Security Platform
- This is a critical domain for Confluent’s success and is an intersection between Engineering, Trust and Product organizations with strong relationships with broader GTM teams
- The Security Platform team builds security products that help sell Confluent to the largest enterprises of the world and runs the infrastructure that powers high scale authorization and authentication systems for all of the Confluent Cloud resource footprint
- Build a Cloud native Security platform with a regional infrastructure footprint to help scale Confluent Cloud into the new era of streaming data services
- Uplevel and overhaul operational posture and excellence of the cloud platform to support 10x scale
- Deliver core security products and the infrastructure for internal authentication and authorization use cases - across top three cloud providers - AWS, Azure, GCP
- Partner with senior leadership in R&D to drive cultural, technical, people and process improvements in a growing organization
- Partner with CISO, Product Management and GTM organizations to deliver on top business priorities in the security, Trust and compliance domains
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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