Confluent
Data AI · Kafka
- HQ
- Mountain View, US
- Website
- confluent.io
Data AI · Kafka
Currently tracking 1 active AI role, down 47% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering.
Confluent currently has 4 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: AI Architect , Pincipal, Product Manager, Senior Product Manager, Developer Experience, Staff Product Operations Manager. Most positions are in Product and Engineering.
Confluent's active AI hiring is concentrated in: agents (75%), application (25%). These categories follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle: data, pre-training, post-training, serving infrastructure, agents, evaluation, and application.
Confluent is hiring AI talent in: United States (4 roles).
Job postings at Confluent most frequently reference: agent orchestration, rag, llm observability, tool use, vector db.
In the past 30 days, Confluent has posted 2 new AI-related roles.
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Senior Product Manager, Cloud Networking Senior Product Manager for Confluent Cloud's networking services, focusing on reliability, scalability, security, cost-efficiency, and ease of use for private networking. The role involves defining product roadmaps, interfaces (API, CLI, Terraform), and managing the full product lifecycle for network options, aiming to abstract complex infrastructure for users building streaming applications. | — | 0 |
| Staff Product Manager, Flink Cloud Platform Product Manager for Confluent's Flink Cloud Platform, focusing on enterprise-grade features like encryption, disaster recovery, and access management to drive adoption in regulated industries. | — | 0 |
| Staff Product Manager, Kafka Connect Product Manager for Kafka Connect, focusing on enterprise features and integrations. The role involves driving product strategy, working with customers and engineering, and potentially introducing AI/ML capabilities into features. | — | 0 |
| Staff Product Manager, Confluent Cloud Kafka Staff Product Manager for Confluent Cloud Kafka, focusing on the Kafka Operator experience for enterprise customers. Requires strong technical background in cloud systems and Apache Kafka ecosystem, with experience in developer/operator-focused products. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Frontend Senior Frontend Engineer role focused on building mission-critical user experiences for Confluent's cloud platform, impacting product releases and developer velocity. Requires strong frontend skills, experience with CI/CD, and technical leadership. | — | 0 |
| Senior Product Manager, Cluster Linking Product Manager for Confluent's Cluster Linking product, focusing on disaster recovery, migrations, and cross-organization data sharing. The role involves defining product strategy, driving adoption, packaging, pricing, and working closely with engineering and customers to grow the platform product. | — | 0 |
| Staff Software Engineer I - SRE Confluent is seeking a Staff Software Engineer I - SRE to focus on proactive reliability improvements and incident management for their multi-cloud streaming platform. The role involves 75% engineering work (automation, tooling, system analysis) and 25% program ownership (training, incident response practices). The ideal candidate has 10+ years of SRE experience, deep expertise in distributed systems, observability, and incident management tooling, with a preference for Kafka/event streaming. | — | 0 |
| Staff Software Engineer - I Staff Software Engineer at Confluent, focusing on building internal web applications for business processes like deal lifecycle, pricing, and forecasting. The role involves end-to-end system design, architecture, implementation, and technical leadership, with a focus on pragmatic, maintainable solutions for business impact rather than massive consumer scale. While the role mentions enabling AI capabilities, its core focus is on the engineering of internal business systems. | — | 0 |
| Staff Security Engineer II Staff Application Security Engineer responsible for shaping and advancing the application security strategy across Confluent's on-premises products and cloud services. This role involves defining the long-term security posture, leading the design and evolution of application security architecture, and ensuring security is embedded throughout the product lifecycle. The engineer will act as a strategic partner to Engineering and Product leadership, influence architectural direction, proactively mitigate risks, and architect and oversee security automation and tooling. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Traffic Senior Software Engineer role focused on building and managing the networking fabric of Confluent Cloud, specifically the data plane responsible for performance, security, reliability, and cost optimizations for Kafka cluster traffic. | — | 0 |
| Senior Technical Program Manager This role is for a Senior Technical Program Manager at Confluent, focusing on leading Observability and Monetization programs within the Cloud Architecture and Reliability organization. The TPM will drive cross-functional alignment across Engineering, Product, Finance, and Data teams to enhance platform monitoring, alerting, operational intelligence, billing accuracy, usage metering, and cost attribution, directly impacting platform reliability, customer experience, and revenue. | — | 0 |
| Staff Software Engineer I - Cloud Compute Platform Staff Software Engineer to build and evolve a next-generation, multi-tenant, cloud-native compute substrate powering Confluent Cloud's workloads. The role involves orchestrating workloads across thousands of Kubernetes clusters globally, designing platform APIs, integrating with the broader Confluent Cloud platform, and ensuring multi-tenancy and security. Responsibilities include driving technical charter, designing APIs and Kubernetes operators, working with product management, and owning operational aspects. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer II - KORA This role focuses on the core coordination layer of a modern cloud data platform, ensuring large fleets of consumers and transactional workloads are balanced, fault-tolerant, and predictable. It involves designing and implementing high-scale, low-latency features in distributed systems, managing state, replication, and recovery, and leading reliability and operational improvements for cloud-native services. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Product Security Senior Software Engineer role focused on product security, specifically designing and implementing identity and access management, authentication, and authorization methods for Confluent Cloud. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to build secure solutions and improve the security platform. | — | 0 |
| Staff Site Reliability Engineer - Incident Management & Reliability (Remote - Canada) Staff Site Reliability Engineer focused on incident management and reliability for Confluent's cloud platform. The role involves analyzing failure patterns, building automation, improving tooling, defining SLOs, and evolving incident response practices. It requires deep expertise in distributed systems, cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure), and incident management tooling. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer - II Senior Software Engineer II role focused on building and scaling mission-critical backend services for Confluent's data streaming platform. Responsibilities include architecting, designing, developing, and operationalizing high-performance, scalable, reliable, and resilient services, with a focus on Kafka Connectors for data integration and Change Data Capture (CDC). The role requires strong experience in cloud-native, large-scale distributed systems, operational excellence, and a customer-centric approach. | — | 0 |
| Staff Software Engineer I - Internal Access Management Staff Software Engineer to lead technical vision, architecture, and execution for Internal Access Management at Confluent, focusing on distributed systems, cloud security, authentication, and policy-driven authorization frameworks. | — | 0 |
| Staff Software Engineer - Flink Control Plane Staff Software Engineer role focused on building and developing the control plane services for the Flink product, including Kubernetes operators and orchestrators for serverless resource management. The role involves designing APIs, ensuring code quality, documentation, maintainability, and mentoring junior engineers. | — | 0 |
| Staff Software Developer Staff Software Developer role focused on architecting and driving technical strategy for a stream processing engine (Apache Flink) within Confluent Cloud, emphasizing elastic, reliable, and cost-effective stream processing, autoscaling, and state management. | — | 0 |
| Senior Security Engineer II Senior Security Engineer II focused on detection and response within Confluent's infrastructure security team. Responsibilities include building and maintaining security monitoring systems, developing detection strategies, triaging alerts, responding to incidents, and researching new threat vectors. Requires strong experience in security incident detection and response, telemetry solutions, and incident containment. | — | 0 |
| Staff Software Engineer - Flink SQL Staff Software Engineer role focused on developing core components of Apache Flink SQL for Confluent Cloud, emphasizing stream processing, query planning, optimization, and open-source contributions. | — | 0 |
| Staff Software Engineer I - Stream Governance Staff Software Engineer to lead initiatives for Confluent's Stream Governance product, focusing on building and scaling cloud-native, multi-tenant services for Kafka and real-time data. Responsibilities include architecting complex systems, driving roadmap execution, enhancing platform technology, and ensuring high availability (99.99 SLA) across multiple cloud regions. | — | 0 |
| Principal Engineer, Engineering AI Productivity | — | — |
| Senior Software Engineer II | — | — |