We’re not just building better tech. We’re rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real-time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them.
It takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together.
One Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.
About the Role:The charter of the CP team has been continuously expanding since its inception. You will play a key technical role, driving advancements in the ever-expanding CP charter. We are committed to maintaining high-quality deliverables, and you will be responsible for designing and building the necessary technology to uphold this standard. To enhance the efficiency of our release engineering processes, we look to you for innovative ideas. We also aim to integrate the latest K8S ecosystem into our CFK, leveraging this progress to benefit our customers.
Additionally, we are focused on improving the management and monitoring of large CP clusters in multi-geography deployments, as well as enhancing our security measures to ensure customers are prepared for the evolving global regulatory landscape. This role requires you to navigate open-ended strategies, exploring and experimenting with new ideas that deliver value to customers—rather than simply following a predefined list of requirements. You will also contribute to better supporting our on-call engineers and resolving customer issues within promised SLAs.
As one of the leading technologists within the CP organization, you will architect and design solutions, as well as review design implementations and code. This position offers the opportunity to work across the full breadth and depth of CP technology. It also demands operational excellence and active participation in developing the roadmap, evolving the team's vision and direction, and collaborating with the organization to turn goals into reality.
What You Will Do:You will work with a team of engineers to help evolve the Confluent Platform. Work closely with product management, engineering leadership, and other key stakeholders across various teams in Confluent and Confluent Cloud to build and drive the overall roadmap.
Need you to be a strong tech voice outside CP in Confluent.
Influence the overall domain health and operational hygiene for the Confluent Platform. We need a tech champion for CP. Review code, designs and improvements are expected from you.
We are looking at you to lead the technology charter in Confluent Platform.\
Mentor a team of high-performing engineers and leads, helping them to continue in growing their skill set through hands-on experience and mentorship.
Be a strong technical leader and representative for engineering teams in India.
Provide timely and productive feedback, encourage a growth mindset, and advise team members in setting and working toward personal development goals.
Nurture a culture of excellence on the team through a focus on hiring, communication, execution, and work quality.
Create and manage processes that enable the team to do its best work.
Minimum of 10+ years of hands-on software development experience with the ability to anticipate future technical needs for the product and craft plans to realize them.
Taking ideas to production is something we look for.
Ready to roll up your sleeves - code, debug, design - do whatever it takes to ship the product to production.
Experience building and operating large-scale systems. Solid understanding of basic systems operations (disk, network, operating systems, etc). Experience running production services in the cloud.
Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development. Solid fundamentals in concurrent and multi-threading programming.
A self starter with the ability to work effectively in teams. Proactively identifying the symptoms of technical issues and reason about their causes is needed. This will be followed by fixing the root causes.
Timely shipping of deliverables; being able to trade-off short term technical decisions with the long term.Move fast, build in increments, and iterate. A sense of urgency, a mindset towards achieving results, and excellent prioritization skills.
Ability to influence the team, peers and upper management in technology decisions using effective communication and collaborative techniques
Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent experience. Understanding of various technologies, programming paradigms and frameworks is needed. Ability to be pragmatic and trade off their usage in production is essential.
Ability to take on intense customer productions issues on-call; debugging and mitigating them will be needed. This requires patient log and metrics analysis with solid reasoning to nail the issue.
Experience in open-source development
Experience using Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, Apache Spark is a big plus
Interest in evangelism (giving talks at tech conferences, writing blog posts evangelizing Kafka)
Experience working on stream processing technology or query processing systems
Data processing systems in general
Belonging isn’t a perk here. It’s the baseline. We work across time zones and backgrounds, knowing the best ideas come from different perspectives. And we make space for everyone to lead, grow, and challenge what’s possible.
We’re proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Employment decisions are based on job-related criteria, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other classification protected by law.
