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Director II, Engineering - Head of Confluent Control Plane

Work from home Full-time role Hiring

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 cloud platform enables low-latency, high throughput and critical workflows that power Confluent Cloud. This platform enables end to end management, monitoring, elasticity, security and orchestration of the entire cloud ecosystem. We are looking for a senior leader to build the global and regional control plane for all of Confluent. This is a critical piece of the architecture which helps manage the product metadata, orchestration, and inter-product workflows. The team builds high scale resource management and data management services. In this role, we are excited for you to drive the vision, lay the roadmap, and build out a high-performing engineering organization.

What You Will Do:
  • Build global and regional control planes to help scale Confluent Cloud into the new era of streaming data services.

  • Uplevel and overhaul operational posture and excellence of the cloud infrastructure to support 10x scale.

  • Build data management and orchestration technology that can operate and scale across top three cloud providers - AWS, Azure, GCP.

  • Design automations, platforms, best practices and tools to enable disaster recovery of data stores, stateful systems and stateless systems

  • Partner with senior leadership in R&D to drive cultural, technical, people and process improvements in a growing organization.

What You Will Bring:
  • 10+ years of engineering management experience leading productive, collaborative, high-functioning teams in a cloud environment.

  • 5+ years developing cloud native infrastructure software at global scale.

  • Experience building, managing and running large scale distributed databases and data systems in the cloud.

  • Demonstrated experience in effectively influencing and working with the exec team using effective communication and collaborative techniques.

Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.

Come As You Are

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.

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