Senior Software Engineer II role focused on building the compute layer for Kora, a cloud-native event streaming platform. Responsibilities include designing, architecting, and developing highly available, reliable, secure, scalable, and multi-tenant systems, with a focus on distributed systems and infrastructure problems.

Senior Software Engineer role focused on backend systems for Stream Governance products within a data streaming platform. Responsibilities include designing, architecting, and developing cloud-native, multi-tenant, highly available, and scalable distributed services. The role involves technical leadership, mentoring, and ensuring high quality and reliability for mission-critical services with strict SLAs.

The Infrastructure team at Confluent is responsible for building and operating the foundation that powers Confluent Cloud. This role focuses on designing scalable, reliable, and cost-efficient infrastructure for data streaming workloads, including optimizing cloud networking, improving resource efficiency, and scaling distributed systems.

Senior Software Engineer II role focused on building the compute layer for Kora, a cloud-native event streaming platform. Responsibilities include designing, architecting, and developing highly available, reliable, secure, scalable, and multi-tenant systems. Requires strong fundamentals in distributed systems and experience with cloud infrastructure.

Principal Engineer role focused on advancing Confluent's Cloud Observability features, ensuring quality, reliability, and scalability for customers. The role involves technical leadership, architecture, design, code review, mentoring, and driving the roadmap for observability capabilities in both cloud and hybrid environments. Requires extensive experience in building and operating large-scale distributed systems, with a strong emphasis on operational excellence and customer issue resolution.

Staff Software Engineer to lead design and delivery of core control-plane infrastructure for Confluent Cloud, focusing on distributed systems, reliability, and cross-team leadership.

Staff Software Engineer to build the next-generation network data plane for Confluent Cloud, focusing on 10x scale, performance, security, reliability, and cost optimization. This role involves architecting, designing, and leading cross-team initiatives for highly scalable and resilient networking solutions, with hands-on operational excellence and cloud provider integration.

Engineering Manager for Confluent's Connect organization, leading a team of 6-10 engineers responsible for building and operating connectors that integrate with major cloud providers and data systems. The role involves driving execution, roadmap planning, improving reliability and scalability, and exploring AI-assisted engineering practices to enhance developer productivity.

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. The role involves complex project execution, technical expertise, operational excellence, and mentorship.

This is a Senior Manager, Engineering role focused on leading a team that manages a large fleet of distributed Kafka clusters across major public clouds. The role involves defining vision, building roadmaps, mentoring engineers, driving technical initiatives for reliability and performance, and fostering operational excellence. It requires extensive experience in distributed systems, cloud operations, and leadership.

Senior Software Engineer role focused on building and operating components for Confluent's Connect Platform, which bridges Apache Kafka with the wider ecosystem for data integration and streaming. The role involves working on self-managed and cloud connectors, single message transforms, security, and scaling data flows for event-driven architectures.

Senior Software Engineer II at Confluent to work on Stream Governance products, focusing on designing, developing, and operating large-scale, distributed, cloud-native backend systems for data streaming. The role involves technical leadership, mentoring, and ensuring high availability and scalability of services like Confluent Schema Registry, Data Contracts, and Policies.

Staff Software Engineer to work on features and improvements in the Apache Kafka software, collaborating with the Apache community and senior engineers. The role involves contributing to performance improvements, operational aspects, and innovation within the Kafka stack, impacting the product, engineering organization, and customer success.

Senior Engineering Manager for Confluent's Metrics Platform team, responsible for leading a high-performing engineering organization focused on building and scaling a best-in-class observability foundation for real-time data streaming infrastructure. The role involves defining technical strategy, scaling infrastructure for 10x data volume, evolving the metrics API, ensuring operational excellence (99.99%+ availability, sub-second query performance), and collaborating with other teams.

Senior Software Engineer II at Confluent to lead the design and delivery of large-scale, distributed backend services for their data streaming platform. This role involves technical leadership, architecture decisions, mentoring, and collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders to ship high-impact work. Responsibilities include owning backend systems, improving reliability and operations, and driving platform improvements.

The Director II, Compute Platform & Unified Deployment will lead the design, architecture, and build of a secure, multi-tenant, polyglot, Cloud-native Compute substrate to enable new business opportunities across Confluent Cloud, including Confluent Intelligence. This role involves driving end-to-end technical delivery, focusing on key operational aspects like availability, reliability, performance, monitoring, and capacity planning for mission-critical workloads.

Senior Software Engineer role focused on designing and implementing a distributed control plane for managing Confluent Cloud offerings. Requires strong software design, distributed systems expertise, and experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, and Go/C++/Java/Python. Emphasizes DevOps, iterative development, and operating/supporting code post-release.

Senior Software Engineer II at Confluent responsible for leading the design and delivery of large-scale, distributed backend services for their data streaming platform. Focus areas include core platform services, governance, observability, security, and customer-facing applications. Requires technical leadership, architecture decisions, and mentoring engineers.

Software Engineer role focused on building and maintaining Golang infrastructure services, typically Kubernetes operators, for Confluent's cloud platform. Responsibilities include provisioning, availability, performance, monitoring, and capacity planning of the platform. Requires strong fundamentals in distributed systems, Kubernetes, and public cloud experience.

Senior Software Engineer II role at Confluent focused on building and enhancing open-source Kafka client libraries in various programming languages, with a strong emphasis on C/C++ and Java. The role involves technical leadership, API design, and collaboration with product and field teams to improve the developer experience for Kafka users.

This role is for an Engineering Manager at Confluent, leading teams that build UI applications for Kafka, Tableflow, and Governance. The focus is on creating user experiences for data engineers and platform operators to manage streaming data, including features like stream governance, schema management, and catalog search. The role involves technical leadership in architecture and backend contracts, as well as people management, hiring, coaching, and scaling the team. While the company works with data streaming platforms and governance, the core of this specific role is in building user-facing applications and managing engineering teams, not directly in AI/ML model development or research.

This role is for a Senior Finance Business Systems Analyst at Confluent, focusing on NetSuite and other finance systems. The primary responsibilities include implementing and optimizing billing, revenue recognition, and order-to-cash processes. The role involves partnering with finance stakeholders, translating requirements into specifications, providing system support, and managing system enhancements. A key aspect is leveraging AI-driven tools and data analytics to improve finance workflows and insights. The role requires experience with ERP and finance applications, particularly in subscription billing and revenue recognition, and a strong understanding of finance and accounting concepts.

Senior Software Engineer II role focused on designing, implementing, and maintaining Golang infrastructure services (Kubernetes operators) for Confluent Cloud's streaming data platform. Responsibilities include managing Terraform, Datadog, Prometheus, Linux, public cloud, and networking, ensuring availability, performance, monitoring, and capacity planning of the PaaS product. Requires strong fundamentals in distributed systems, experience building and operating large-scale systems, and proficiency in Go or similar languages.

Senior Software Engineer role focused on designing, implementing, and maintaining Golang infrastructure services (Kubernetes operators) for Confluent Cloud's data streaming platform. Responsibilities include ensuring availability, performance, monitoring, and capacity planning of the platform, with a strong emphasis on distributed systems, Linux, public cloud, and networking.

Backend engineers at Confluent build the cloud services and systems that power their data streaming platform. This role focuses on large-scale, distributed backend systems that need to be highly available, reliable, and easy to operate. Responsibilities include designing, building, and operating secure, reliable, and scalable backend services, owning features end-to-end, working with distributed systems and microservices, contributing to service reliability and operations, and collaborating with partner teams. Requires 3+ years of experience in backend systems, distributed systems, cloud deployment, and databases, with a focus on quality and reliability.

Staff Software Engineer at Confluent on the Business Technology team, focusing on building internal web applications for revenue, forecasting, and operational efficiency. The role involves leading architecture, design, and implementation of complex systems, partnering with stakeholders, and mentoring engineers. The team aims to enable AI capabilities for end-users, indicating an 'Exploring' AI maturity signal within an enterprise context.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.