Confluent, founded in 2014, is a leading software company that specializes in event streaming platforms. The company's innovative technology has revolutionized real-time data processing and analytics, enabling organizations to harness the power of data in motion. Confluent's event streaming platform has become a cornerstone for modern data architecture, empowering businesses to build scalable, reliable, and real-time data pipelines. With a comprehensive suite of tools and services, Confluent is at the forefront of the data streaming revolution, helping companies across industries unlock the full potential of their data.

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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.<h2>About the Role:</h2>Based on Apache Kafka, the Confluent Cloud Platform is the leading Cloud Native Platform as a Service for streaming data infrastructure, but this is just the beginning. We are building a PaaS that will enable customers around the globe to deliver streaming applications.<h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Design, implement and maintain Golang infrastructure services (typically implemented as Kubernetes operators) to deliver the Confluent cloud foundations to the broader engineering organisation</li><li>Kubernetes, Terraform, Datadog, Prometheus and a strong command of Linux, public cloud and networking should come as standard - though Golang software engineering will be your primary focus</li><li>As a Confluent Cloud Infrastructure Software Engineer, you will be working alongside the rest of the Confluent engineers to build our PaaS product</li><li>You and the rest of the team will be responsible for the provisioning, availability, performance, monitoring, emergency response, and capacity planning of the Confluent cloud</li><li>If you love the hum of big data systems covering 10,000's of instances spread across 1000’s of Kubernetes clusters in multiple cloud providers and thinking about how to make them run as smoothly and securely as possible, and want to have a significant influence on the architecture plus operational design points of this new product, then you will fit right in.</li><li>Please know this is a remote role, but you must be based in Poland.</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Bsc, Msc, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience</li><li>Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development</li><li>Good understanding of the Kubernetes ecosystem</li><li>Knowledge in building and operating large-scale systems</li><li>Understanding of basic system operations (disk, network, operating systems, etc)</li><li>A self-starter with the ability to work effectively in teams</li><li>Proficiency in Go, Python, C++, or other statically typed languages</li><li>Experience/knowledge with public clouds (AWS, Azure or GCP)</li></ul><h2>What Gives You an Edge:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Experience with Golang and a Kubernetes CNI is advantageous</li><li>Experience using Kubernetes is a big plus</li><li>Relevant cloud infrastructure/cloud networking experience</li></ul><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

Software Engineer

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.<h2>About the Role:</h2>The Sales Compensation Team at Confluent is a hard working group of analysts that have a strong passion for Sales Compensation and ensuring our Sales field is paid accurately and timely each month. The Sales Compensation team supports the field so that they can focus on selling and driving company revenue. The team works with all operational, finance, and sales departments ensuring strong relationships and collaboration.Confluent is seeking a Sales Compensation Analyst for its rapidly growing Global business. The ideal candidate is curious with strong business acumen, a relationship builder with the ability to influence senior stakeholders, and an analytical thinker that dives deep into problem solving. They thrive in a fast-paced dynamic environment, have excellent written and verbal communication, are detail-oriented and comfortable working with numerous stakeholders in an environment with considerable ambiguity.The successful candidate will have deep experience in sales compensation or sales operations programs, designing solutions to support high growth. They should be able to juggle competing projects, design (and implement) sales incentive plans to support sales strategies, and work across multiple teams to solve complex problems. This person will work closely with the Sales leaders, Finance, HR, Corporate Compensation and other Confluent partner teams to negotiate, design, and deploy sales incentive programs.<h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>APAC Sales Field support for Xactly (or current Comp System), Salesforce, and general questions</li><li>Perform audits (Excel or Gsheets) to ensure data integrity across systems to ensure correct compensation for the entire organization</li><li>Offer insights and ideas to create more efficient</li><li>Propose and present ideas effectively, in writing, influencing decisions, senior decision makers, and outcomes within tight timelines.</li><li>Ensure sales incentive plans are implementable via tools, process, and controls.</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Strong Excel experience required</li><li>Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with demonstrated experience working cross-functionally and influencing other teams within a complex business environment</li><li>Excellent problem-solving and project management skills</li><li>Solid understanding of data, reporting and the use of systems to implement operational objectives</li><li>Experience implementing variable sales compensation plans</li><li>Exceptional attention to detail</li></ul><h2>What Gives You an Edge:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>3-5 bullet points maximum, describing the “preferred qualifications” of the role</li></ul><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

Sr. Sales Compensation Analyst

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.<h2>About the Role:</h2>We are a team of passionate engineers who love solving complex distributed systems and infrastructure problems. Real-time infrastructure is the future, and we are creating a new category for it - ‘Data in Motion’.Your placement internship will be a remote opportunity for a full year that introduces you to Confluent's culture and enables faster learning, onboarding, and coaching.<h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>To design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve software that will touch production and have a customer-facing impact.</li><li>Follow best practices for software development and participate in code reviews.</li><li>Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.</li><li>Help build the next generation Kafka by continuing to push the boundaries of distributed system design.</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Pursuing a Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, Math, or a related technical field with a graduation date between December 2026- August 2027</li><li>Self-motivated and able to drive projects with mentorship and project requirements</li><li>Ability to work effectively in teams and strong verbal and written communication skills</li><li>Good knowledge of data structures and algorithms and are proficient in at least one of these languages: Java/Scala, C, C++, GoSmart, humble, and empathetic</li><li>Driven and excited about the challenges of a fast-paced, innovative, and quickly growing software development environment</li><li>Interested in building large-scale distributed systems in the cloud and are excited to make an impact</li></ul><h2>What Gives You an Edge:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Exposure to tools or frameworks like Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, or Kubernetes is a plus</li></ul><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

2026 Confluent Software Engineering Intern Opportunity (Remote, United Kingdom)

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.<h2>About the Role:</h2>Solutions Engineers at Confluent drive not only the early-stage evaluation within the sales process, but also play a crucial role in enabling ongoing value-realization for customers, all while helping them move up the adoption maturity curve. In this role you’ll partner with Account Executives to be the key technical advisor in service of the customer. You’ll be instrumental in surfacing the customers’ stated or implicit Business Needs, and coming up with Technical Designs to best meet these needs. You may find yourself at times facilitating art of the possible discussions and storytelling to inspire customers in adopting new patterns with confidence, and at other times driving creative solutioning to help get past difficult technical roadblocks. Overall, we look upon Solutions Engineers to be a key cog within the Customer Success Team that help foster an environment of sustained success for the customer and incremental adoption of Confluent’s Technology(s).<h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Help advance new &amp; innovative Data Streaming use-cases from conception to Go-Live</li><li>Execute on and lead Technical Proofs of Concept</li><li>Conduct Discovery &amp; Whiteboard Sessions to develop new use-cases</li><li>Provide Thought Leadership by delivering Technical Talks and Workshops</li><li>Guide customers with hands-on help and best practice to drive operational maturity of their Confluent Deployment</li><li>Analyze Customer Consumption trends and identify Optimization opportunities</li><li>Work closely with Product and Engineering teams, and serve as a key Product advocate across the Customer, Partner and Industry ecosystem</li><li>Forge strong relationships with key customer stakeholders and serve as a dependable partner for them</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>5+ years of Solutions Engineering or similar work experience</li><li>Experience with Event-Driven architecture, Data Integration &amp; Processing Techniques, Database &amp; Data Warehouse technologies</li><li>First-Hand exposure to Cloud Architecture, Migrations, Deployment &amp; Application Development</li><li>Experience with Automation, GitOps and Kubernetes</li><li>Proficiency in Java, Python or SQL</li><li>Technical certifications - Cloud Developer/Architect, Data Engineering &amp; Integration</li><li>Clear, consistent demonstration of self-starter behavior, a desire to learn new things and tackle hard technical problems</li><li>Exceptional presentation and communications capabilities.</li><li>Confidence presenting to a highly skilled and experienced audience, ranging from developers to enterprise architects and up to C-level executives</li></ul><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

Senior Solutions Engineer

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.<h2>About the Role:</h2>Confluent is seeking an experienced, self-motivated Sr. Manager - FinOps to join our Accounting Shared Services team. This position will report to the Director of Shared Services, Accounting and will be responsible for overseeing all Finance operations, ensuring strong internal controls, compliance with internal policies and optimizing these processes through automation. The position will lead day-to-day finance operations and supervise a team of staff members. It will hold functional responsibility over accounts payable, accounts receivable, Procurement and T&amp;E functions. The position will also be responsible for ensuring that the systems and procedures are in place to support effective implementation and conducting flawless audits. Due to the fast-paced and high growth nature of the Company, the candidate must be detail oriented, can operate effectively and independently in a rapidly growing and dynamic environment to help drive the Company’s continued growth, and a willingness to roll up their sleeves when needed.<h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Leadership &amp; Management:<ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Significant experience in a manager plus role within a Finance Shared Services Environment.</li><li>Develop and implement strategic plans to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of financial operations.</li><li>Work with Director of Shared Services in Establishing KPI’s and Metrics to evaluate the performance of Shared Services Team.</li><li>Conduct Regular performance reviews and provide coaching and development opportunities for team members by providing clarity on the roles and responsibilities; developing and implementing training programs to maximize and help them reach optimal individual and organizational goals. </li><li>Providing leadership in strengthening internal communications with staff at all levels throughout the organization; creating and promoting a positive and supportive work environment.</li></ul></li><li>Finance Operations<ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Oversee all aspects of FinOps functions which include Accounts Payable, Travel &amp; Entertainment, Procurement, Accounts Receivable.</li><li>Ensure compliance with SOX Controls and Company policies.</li><li>Act as a key point of contact for internal and external auditors, providing necessary documentation and explanations related to the above processes. </li><li>Establish SOP’s and SLAs for the above-mentioned process. </li><li>Drive End-to-End execution of Finance transformation initiatives by collaborating with relevant stakeholders to deliver impactful and sustainable outcomes.</li><li>Assist with other Ad hoc/special projects as needed.</li></ul></li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>8-10+ experience in Finance with a significant portion spent in leadership role within Shared Services Environment.</li><li>Chartered Accountant (CA) or an equivalent qualification.</li><li>Self-starter who can work well independently and work effectively as a team leader and team member.</li><li>Ability to work under pressure with a positive attitude, remain focused on results, and respond to changing priorities.</li><li>Solid understanding of global finance operations and regulatory requirements.</li><li>Enterprise software and SaaS industry experience</li><li>Excellent interpersonal skills (oral and written) and the ability to communicate effectively with all levels of personnel</li><li>NetSuite user experience is a plus.</li><li>Confidence in a highly visible role.</li><li>Most importantly: a sense of humor, a curious mind, an eagerness to learn, and a positive attitude. </li></ul><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

Sr. FinOps Manager

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.<h2>About the Role:</h2>Confluent is searching for a Customer Success Technical Architect (CSTA) to act as a trusted technical advisor and advocate to work with our customers. The primary objective of this role is to ensure the success, retention &amp; expansion of our customers by providing technical guidance, including best practices, for the Confluent product suite. You will partner with others in Customer Solutions as well as cross-functional divisions such as Sales, Product Management and Engineering to help our customers accelerate time to value, maximize product consumption and achieve their overall business objectives. The CSTA role is both deeply technical and commercial in nature. You will leverage a technical background (e.g. AppDev, SysAdmin, Distributed Computing) to advise customers on their architectures, including patterns &amp; strategies for operating and maturing their Confluent subscription. You will also utilize relationship management skills &amp; industry experience to guide the customer on how they can best achieve their business goals and value-based outcomes via their Confluent investment. In this role, you will have the opportunity to build broad experience with Kafka, Flink and Confluent IP as well as gain an understanding of complementary and competitive technologies. You will work with a variety of organizations ranging from new start-ups to large enterprise customers. Throughout these interactions, you will build strong relationships, ensure exemplary delivery standards, and have a lot of fun helping our customers build state-of-the-art data streaming platforms! Locations: US Remote<h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Champion and advocate for the customer within Confluent. You will be the technical voice of the customer and will leverage learned technical insights &amp; perspective while coordinating between</li><li>Confluent Sales, Product, Services, Support and Training teams to drive technical success.</li><li>Identify customer technical objections and develop strategies to address those blockers to adoption.</li><li>Proactively support customers through technical lifecycle activities such as architecture planning, cluster &amp; security design, monitoring &amp; automation; review &amp; provide guidance on upgrade or migration plans, platform &amp; application hardening ideas and high availability design.</li><li>Guide customers up the data streaming maturity curve through recommendations on advanced technical topics (e.g. data mesh, stream processing, utilization optimization &amp; performance tuning)</li><li>Develop and present periodic customer reviews, including analysis of technical health and operational performance, to Confluent senior management.</li><li>Document and transfer knowledge to customers and internal teams. This assists customers in advancing their knowledge &amp; abilities on their own, while also helping Technical Support Engineers and</li><li>Professional Services teams better serve your customers.</li><li>Leverage knowledge of your customer environments and use cases to influence the roadmap of Confluent products.</li><li>When necessary, roll up your sleeves and dig in to help address customer issues alongside Confluent Technical Support Engineers and Core Engineering.</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Bachelor's degree in computer science or engineering, mathematics, or other quantitative field</li><li>Demonstrated success in a technical Field role for a product / SaaS company with enterprise customers</li><li>Passion for working on complex technical problems, with a strong understanding of modern infrastructure and streaming technologies; self-starter who loves a fast-paced environment</li><li>Excellent interpersonal &amp; communication skills and an ability to concisely explain tricky issues and complex solutions to a variety of personas</li><li>Demonstrated ability to manage multiple customers at a time while paying strict attention to detail and delivering results across multiple initiatives such as driving expansion, customer satisfaction, feature adoption, and retention</li><li>Collaborative spirit, outstanding consulting &amp; relationship management skills and ability to rapidly switch context</li><li>Hands on knowledge of one or more key cloud vendors (AWS, GCP and Azure)</li><li>Solid understanding of cloud networking and security technologies (e.g. VPC, Private Link, Private Service Connect, TLS/SSL, SASL, Kerberos, etc.)</li><li>Experience prototyping and analyzing code for client solutions in multiple languages (e.g. Java, Python, Go, etc.)</li><li>Experience with Java Virtual Machine (JVM) tuning and troubleshooting</li><li>Experience with operating Linux, you know how to configure, tune and troubleshoot both RedHat &amp; Debian based distributions</li><li>Ability to learn new technologies quickly, as well as a strong interest in doing so!</li><li>Flexibility to travel up to 20% of the time</li></ul><h2>What Gives You an Edge:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Confluent Developer or Administrator certifications (<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.confluent.io/certification/">https://www.confluent.io/certification/</a>)</li><li>Experience with Apache Flink</li><li>Experience helping customers build distributed systems or streaming solutions that use Apache Kafka alongside technologies such as Spark, Flink, Hadoop, Cassandra, etc</li></ul><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

Customer Success Technical Architect - APAC

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.<h2>About the Role:</h2>As an application security engineer at Confluent, you will join a team of security architects and engineers responsible for defining and executing on the security strategy of our product for both on-prem offerings and Cloud services. You will ensure that security is embedded in how we build our products from design and development to testing to how we run them in the cloud, and partner with product and engineering teams to strategically guard against existing or emerging threats.This position is also responsible for cultivating a culture of security awareness across Eng, Product, and the rest of the organization. You will also be responsible for helping build software automation that supports various security operations. The ideal candidate has deep technical security knowledge and software development expertise that will help define and implement robust security architecture strategies, manage and eradicate systemic classes of security issues and vulnerabilities at scale.<h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Drive and influence software security across the organization by partnering with key stakeholders throughout Confluent</li><li>Keep up to date with emerging security vulnerability classes, research and perform triage for relevance by performing table top exercises where necessary</li><li>Perform security threat modeling and design reviews for providing early secure design guidance to engineers and product managers</li><li>Perform product security feature specific implementation reviews (or penetration testing whole applications where applicable), API security testing and code reviews to identify vulnerabilities and provide critical security guidance to engineers</li><li>Enhance our security automation, leveraging or building software security tooling to help scale product security operations and support overall vulnerability management practices</li><li>Propose, design, build, and deploy security solutions, frameworks, automation, and orchestration to secure cloud applications</li><li>Identify opportunities for implementing additional technology controls to build more visibility or defend key points of attack</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>A data-driven, decision-making mindset</li><li>4+ years of relevant application security industry experience</li><li>Strong knowledge of security fundamentals, especially as they relate to the fields of Web Application Security and Cloud Security primitives</li><li>Experience working with common software development stacks and CI/CD systems</li><li>Experience reading and writing code for software automation and security test cases (preferably in GoLang, Python, Java)</li><li>Experience working with distributed teams and other cross-functional stakeholders</li><li>The knowledge, experience, and perspective necessary to own outcomes, influence stakeholders, and provide effective leadership when it comes to keeping our customers and our product safe</li><li>Decision-maker with the ability to operate with freedom and autonomy</li><li>Ability to own and oversee numerous initiatives, while working collaboratively with a variety of stakeholders, and adjust priorities upon evolving business needs</li></ul><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

Senior Application Security Engineer (Remote - USA)

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.<h2>About the Team:</h2>The mission of the Data Science team at Confluent is to serve as the central nervous system of all things data for the company: we build infrastructure, metrics, insights, and models. Our team of data scientists is dedicated to designing and deploying advanced data solutions that enable organizations across the globe harness the power of real-time data.We focus on driving actionable insights and optimizing business outcomes across our customers’ data ecosystems. Our outputs enable data-driven thinking and help optimize every part of the business. There are limitless opportunities for an ambitious data scientist to make an immediate and meaningful impact within our high-growth company.<h2>About the Role:</h2>As a Senior Data Scientist at Confluent, you will be a key player in helping define the product roadmap and driving revenue growth at Confluent. You will collaborate with our Product team and cross-functional partners across the organization. You will use data and analysis to identify and solve challenges, unlocking growth and adoption across our suite of products. This role requires a strong blend of technical skills, strategic thinking and leadership skills to influence strategy and investment decisions.<h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Own prioritization for your domain and collaborate with product managers, engineers, marketing leads, and other stakeholders to define the data science roadmap for your product area</li><li>Work across the org to define and measure success metrics for new features and initiatives</li><li>Utilize data to uncover trends, identify opportunities for growth, drive strategic product decisions, and shape product roadmaps</li><li>Apply technical expertise with quantitative analysis, experimentation, data mining, and the presentation of data to improve product experience</li><li>Share actionable insights and recommendations with leadership at various levels, playing a pivotal role in determining Product strategy</li><li>Collaborate with other data scientists across our organization to share best practices, learn new analytical techniques, and champion an organizational culture where data is central to decision making</li><li>Peer review teammates’ work and provide feedback, working to upskill more junior team members</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence and build relationships at all levels of the organization.</li><li>7+ years of experience in Data Science/Analytics</li><li>Excellent communication skills, and ability to collaborate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders</li><li>Exceptional problem solving skills and analytical skills</li><li>Strong proficiency in data manipulation with data querying languages (e.g. SQL) and scripting languages (e.g. Python).</li><li>Proficiency in data visualization and building dashboards with tools such as Tableau</li><li>Experience with A/B testing and experiment best practices</li><li>Experience and knowledge of causal inference, machine learning and other advanced analytical methods</li><li>Bachelor or advanced degree in a quantitative discipline: computer science, engineering, statistics, economics, etc.</li></ul><h2>What Gives You an Edge:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Experience in SaaS/Product-led Growth companies</li></ul><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

Senior Data Scientist, Product

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.<h2>About the Role:</h2>This role will provide operational support to the PS Operations Americas organization, which delivers a portfolio of services optimized to support the various stages of the Confluent customer journey at scale. The Operations Manager will work closely with the Professional Services Operations Director, along with Americas PS stakeholders to drive operational excellence across the organization. Responsibilities include partnering with PS Practice Managers and Leadership on strategy development, leading the execution of process improvement initiatives, leading inspection cadences for pipeline and project delivery, tracking key performance indicators, and identifying operational improvements. This role requires a deep understanding of Confluent's internal processes, strong organizational skills, and the ability to collaborate effectively with various teams.<h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Partner with the AMER Professional Services Sales leadership team on the Implementation of our Operational framework, including leading key operational and governance cadences for the organization.</li><li>Support strategy development in partnership with Customer Solutions Group and AMER PS&amp;E leadership, including resourcing and capacity planning, process development, and partner scaling opportunities.</li><li>Develop and refine standard delivery processes to ensure global consistency in execution</li><li>Track and report on team KPIs and success metrics.</li><li>Support multiple PS sales leaders from pipeline creation through project delivery, including Weekly, Monthly and Quarterly Business Reviews.</li><li>Lead projects and initiatives focused on improving productivity and simplifying processes throughout the AMER PS organization.</li><li>Collaborate with stakeholders to drive execution of partner delivery efforts across a portfolio of Professional Services engagements.</li><li>Develop productive and trusting relationships with leaders and other internal stakeholders</li><li>Support the CSG AMER team in other operational tasks as needed.</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>4-5+ years of experience in operations, project management, or a related field.</li><li>Strong organizational and time management skills.</li><li>Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.</li><li>Ability to work independently and as part of a team.</li><li>Experience with Salesforce, Gainsight, or similar business systems is a plus.</li><li>Familiarity with Confluent's products and services is a plus.</li></ul><h2></h2><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

Sales Operations Manager - Professional Services

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.<h2>About the Role:</h2>As a Senior Software Engineer, you will contribute to several key initiatives for the Stream Governance product at Confluent. The Stream Governance product portfolio is crucial to bringing Confluent’s mission to put event streaming at the heart of every organization and is a core component of the Data Streaming Platform. As part of our Stream Governance offering, you will be responsible for delivering critical services such as Confluent Stream Catalog, Stream Lineage and Data Portal. These services empower customers to:<ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Search, discover, understand, share and access data in a self-service way.</li><li>Organize, group, and classify data in compliance with different data regulations.</li><li>Understand complex data relationships and uncover more insights.</li></ul>In this role, you will collaborate closely with the team and key stakeholders to design and develop a cloud-native, multi-tenant service for Stream Governance. You will be responsible for providing technical leadership, mentoring, and enabling a high-performing engineering team to tackle complex distributed data challenges at scale.<h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Develop a cloud-native Stream Governance platform for Kafka and real-time data, which is a multi-tenant, highly available, and scalable service</li><li>Architect a complex engineering system from end to end</li><li>Partner across engineering and other key stakeholders to create and execute the overall roadmap for delivering a top-notch Data Streaming Platform for our customers</li><li>Evaluate and enhance the efficiency of our platform’s technology stack, keeping pace with industry trends and adopting state-of-the-art solutions</li><li>Solve complicated technical projects with high quality and provide technical guidance to the team in specialized areas</li><li>As a vital member of our team, take responsibility for developing, managing, and maintaining a mission-critical service with a 99.99 SLA running on 100+ AWS, GCP, and Azure regions</li><li>Enhance the stability, performance, scalability, and operational excellence across multiple critical systems</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>3-5 years of relevant software development experience</li><li>Proven track record of leading the delivery of large-scale, secure, highly available, low latency, high quality systems</li><li>Deep hands-on technical expertise in hyper-scale distributed systems engineering</li><li>Experience running production services in the cloud and being part of oncall rotation</li><li>Expertise in cloud-native technology, including networking &amp; security</li><li>Prior experience working on AWS, GCP, or Azure and a deep understanding of cloud best practices</li><li>Ability to influence the team, peers, and management using effective communication and collaborative techniques</li><li>Proven experience in leading and mentoring technical teams</li><li>Drive results by removing friction and improving the development stack with urgency and prioritization skills</li><li>BS Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience. An advanced degree in computer science is preferred</li></ul><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

Senior Software Engineer

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.<h2>About the Role:</h2>As a Senior Software Engineer II, you will contribute to several key initiatives for the Stream Governance product at Confluent. The Stream Governance product portfolio is crucial to bringing Confluent’s mission to put event streaming at the heart of every organization and is a core component of the Data Streaming Platform. As part of our Stream Governance offering, you will be responsible for delivering critical services such as Confluent Stream Catalog, Stream Lineage and Data Portal. These services empower customers to:<ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Search, discover, understand, share and access data in a self-service way.</li><li>Organize, group, and classify data in compliance with different data regulations.</li><li>Understand complex data relationships and uncover more insights.</li></ul>In this role, you will collaborate closely with the team and key stakeholders to design and develop a cloud-native, multi-tenant service for Stream Governance. You will be responsible for providing technical leadership, mentoring, and enabling a high-performing engineering team to tackle complex distributed data challenges at scale.<h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Develop a cloud-native Stream Governance platform for Kafka and real-time data, which is a multi-tenant, highly available, and scalable service</li><li>Architect a complex engineering system from end to end</li><li>Partner across engineering and other key stakeholders to create and execute the overall roadmap for delivering a top-notch Data Streaming Platform for our customers</li><li>Evaluate and enhance the efficiency of our platform’s technology stack, keeping pace with industry trends and adopting state-of-the-art solutions</li><li>Solve complicated technical projects with high quality and provide technical guidance to the team in specialized areas</li><li>As a vital member of our team, take responsibility for developing, managing, and maintaining a mission-critical service with a 99.99 SLA running on 100+ AWS, GCP, and Azure regions</li><li>Enhance the stability, performance, scalability, and operational excellence across multiple critical systems</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>5+ years of relevant software development experience</li><li>Proven track record of leading the delivery of large-scale, secure, highly available, low latency, high quality systems</li><li>Deep hands-on technical expertise in hyper-scale distributed systems engineering</li><li>Experience running production services in the cloud and being part of oncall rotation</li><li>Expertise in cloud-native technology, including networking &amp; security</li><li>Prior experience working on AWS, GCP, or Azure and a deep understanding of cloud best practices</li><li>Ability to influence the team, peers, and management using effective communication and collaborative techniques</li><li>Proven experience in leading and mentoring technical teams</li><li>Drive results by removing friction and improving the development stack with urgency and prioritization skills</li><li>BS Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience. An advanced degree in computer science is preferred</li></ul><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

Senior Software Engineer II

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.<h2>About the Role:</h2>Solutions Engineers at Confluent drive not only the early-stage evaluation within the sales process, but also play a crucial role in enabling ongoing value-realization for customers, all while helping them move up the adoption maturity curve. In this role you’ll partner with Account Executives to be the key technical advisor in service of the customer. You’ll be instrumental in surfacing the customers’ stated or implicit Business Needs, and coming up with Technical Designs to best meet these needs. You may find yourself at times facilitating art of the possible discussions and storytelling to inspire customers in adopting new patterns with confidence, and at other times driving creative solutioning to help get past difficult technical roadblocks. Overall, we look upon Solutions Engineers to be a key cog within the Customer Success Team that help foster an environment of sustained success for the customer and incremental adoption of Confluent’s Technology.<h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Help advance new &amp; innovative Data Streaming use-cases from conception to Go-Live</li><li>Execute on and lead Technical Proofs of Concept</li><li>Conduct Discovery &amp; Whiteboard Sessions to develop new use-cases</li><li>Provide Thought Leadership by delivering Technical Talks and Workshops</li><li>Guide customers with hands-on help and best practice to drive operational maturity of their Confluent Deployment</li><li>Analyze Customer Consumption trends and identify Optimization opportunities</li><li>Work closely with Product and Engineering teams, and serve as a key Product advocate across the Customer, Partner and Industry ecosystem</li><li>Forge strong relationships with key customer stakeholders and serve as a dependable partner for them</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>5+ years of Solutions Engineering or similar work experience</li><li>Experience with Event-Driven architecture, Data Integration &amp; Processing Techniques, Database &amp; Data Warehouse technologies</li><li>First-Hand exposure to Cloud Architecture, Migrations, Deployment &amp; Application Development</li><li>Experience with Automation, GitOps and Kubernetes</li><li>Proficiency in Java, Python or SQL</li><li>Technical certifications - Cloud Developer/Architect, Data Engineering &amp; Integration</li><li>Clear, consistent demonstration of self-starter behavior, a desire to learn new things and tackle hard technical problems</li><li>Exceptional presentation and communications capabilities.</li><li>Confidence presenting to a highly skilled and experienced audience, ranging from developers to enterprise architects and up to C-level executives</li></ul><h2></h2><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

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.<h2>About the Role:</h2>Solutions Engineers at Confluent drive not only the early-stage evaluation within the sales process, but also play a crucial role in enabling ongoing value-realization for customers, all while helping them move up the adoption maturity curve. In this role you’ll partner with Account Executives to be the key technical advisor in service of the customers. You’ll be instrumental in surfacing the customers’ stated or implicit Business Needs, and coming up with Technical Designs to best meet these needs. You may find yourself at times facilitating art of the possible discussions and storytelling to inspire customers in adopting new patterns with confidence, and at other times driving creative solutioning to help get past difficult technical roadblocks. Overall, we look upon Solutions Engineers to be a key cog within the Customer Success Team that help foster an environment of sustained success for the customer and incremental adoption of Confluent’s Technology.<h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Help advance new &amp; innovative Data Streaming use-cases from conception to Go-Live</li><li>Execute on and lead Technical Proofs of Concept</li><li>Conduct Discovery &amp; Whiteboard Sessions to develop new use-cases</li><li>Provide Thought Leadership by delivering Technical Talks and Workshops</li><li>Guide customers with hands-on help and best practice to drive operational maturity of their Confluent Deployment</li><li>Analyze Customer Consumption trends and identify Optimization opportunities</li><li>Work closely with Product and Engineering teams, and serve as a key Product advocate across the Customer, Partner and Industry ecosystem</li><li>Forge strong relationships with key customer stakeholders and serve as a dependable partner for them</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>5+ years of Solutions Engineering or similar work experience</li><li>Experience with Event-Driven architecture, Data Integration &amp; Processing Techniques, Database &amp; Data Warehouse technologies</li><li>First-Hand exposure to Cloud Architecture, Migrations, Deployment &amp; Application Development</li><li>Experience with Automation, GitOps and Kubernetes</li><li>Proficiency in Java, Python or SQL</li><li>Technical certifications - Cloud Developer/Architect, Data Engineering &amp; Integration</li><li>Clear, consistent demonstration of self-starter behavior, a desire to learn new things and tackle hard technical problems</li><li>Exceptional presentation and communications capabilities.</li><li>Confidence presenting to a highly skilled and experienced audience, ranging from developers to enterprise architects and up to C-level executives</li><li>Fluency in Spanish</li></ul><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

Senior Solutions Engineer (Spanish speaking)

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.<h2>About the Role:</h2>As a core member of the Identity &amp; Authentication team, you will be at the forefront of securing our entire organization. This is a high-impact role where you will design and implement robust identity lifecycle management for users and services, as well as scalable authentication methods like OAuth and mTLS. You'll play a vital part in our cross-functional efforts, collaborating closely with product, engineering, and security teams to build frictionless yet secure access solutions. Your contributions will directly enhance our security posture and ensure a seamless experience for our customers.<h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Independently drive execution of projects and deploy them to production with a focus on quality and customer impact.</li><li>Collaborate effectively with a high performing team and cross-functional partners and make decisions which benefit the team and company.</li><li>Troubleshoot issues, perform root cause analysis and improve operations for complex problems that span all clouds.</li><li>Produce clean, well-documented, and maintainable code that adheres to established team standards and security best practices.</li><li>Deliver value for customers by taking on their most challenging problems.</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>4+ years of relevant software, product and/or security engineering experience</li><li>Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development</li><li>Experience building and operating large-scale systems in the Cloud</li><li>Solid understanding of basic systems operations (disk, network, operating systems, etc)</li><li>Proficiency in Java, Scala, C/C++, Go or other statically typed languages</li></ul><h2>What Gives You An Edge:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Experience in both frontend and backend stacks</li><li>Experience in the areas of security, identity and access management</li><li>Experience/knowledge with public clouds (AWS, Azure or GCP)</li><li>Interest in evangelism (giving talks at tech conferences, writing blog posts evangelizing IAM and Security concepts)</li></ul><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

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.<h2>About the Role:</h2>As a Staff Software Engineer, you will be the technical lead for several key initiatives for the Stream Governance product at Confluent. The Stream Governance product portfolio is crucial to bringing Confluent’s mission to put event streaming at the heart of every organization and is a core component of the Data Streaming Platform. As part of our Stream Governance offering, you will be responsible for delivering critical functionalities such as Confluent Stream Catalog, Stream Sharing, Stream Lineage and Data Portal. These products enable our customers to search, organize, understand, share and access data in a self-service way.In this role, you will collaborate closely with the team and key stakeholders to design, architect, and develop cloud-native, multi-tenant services for Stream Governance. You will be responsible for guiding the vision, providing technical leadership, mentoring, and enabling a high-performing engineering team to tackle complex distributed data challenges at scale.<h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Develop a cloud-native Stream Governance platform for Kafka and real-time data, which is a multi-tenant, highly available, and scalable service</li><li>Architect a complex engineering system from end to end</li><li>Partner across engineering and other key stakeholders to create and execute the overall roadmap for delivering a top-notch Data Streaming Platform for our customers</li><li>Evaluate and enhance the efficiency of our platform's technology stack, keeping pace with industry trends and adopting state-of-the-art solutions</li><li>Solve complicated technical projects with high quality and provide technical guidance to the team in specialized areas</li><li>As a vital member of our team, take responsibility for developing, managing, and maintaining a mission-critical service with a 99.99 SLA running on 90+ AWS, GCP, and Azure regions</li><li>Enhance the stability, performance, scalability, and operational excellence across multiple critical systems</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>10+ years of relevant software development experience</li><li>Technical expertise in large-scale systems engineering or distributed systems</li><li>5+ years of experience with designing, building, and scaling distributed systems</li><li>Experience running production services in the cloud and being part of oncall rotation</li><li>Expertise in cloud-native technology, including networking &amp; security Prior experience working on AWS, GCP, or Azure and a deep understanding of cloud best practices</li><li>Ability to influence the team, peers, and management using effective communication and collaborative techniques</li><li>Proven experience in leading and mentoring technical teams</li><li>Drive results by removing friction and improving the development stack with urgency and prioritization skills</li><li>BS Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience. An advanced degree in computer science is preferred</li></ul><h2></h2><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

Staff Software Engineer I - Stream Governance

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.<h2>About the Role:</h2>The Strategic Customer Success Manager (SCSM) will play a key role in driving customer success, retention, and expansion within our Enterprise accounts. SCSMs provide thought leadership and actionable recommendations to ensure customers take full advantage of the Confluent Portfolio and product capabilities.<h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Meet/exceed quarterly retention targets by proactively engaging with account teams across the portfolio and ensuring renewal activities are completed along with the sales team.</li><li>Identifying new use cases, building high level project plans, and helping manage those projects to successfully go live and produce consumption.</li><li>Proactively identify areas of account risk and escalate internally to engage and garner pertinent resources across disciplines to document and execute a get-well plan for prompt resolution.</li><li>Identify and collaborate with the sales team regarding expansion, upsell, and additional service/support opportunities within accounts.</li><li>Advocate for your customers and facilitate the engagement of other Confluent resources (e.g. Customer Operations, Customer Success, Sales, Sales Engineering, etc.) to ensure ongoing customer success.</li><li>Guide adoption practices with the goal of driving increased value realization and decreased time-to-value from Confluentâs solutions.</li><li>Drive cross functional programs and services across the existing account base that will grow usage, adoption, satisfaction, customer health, and likelihood to recommend Confluent.</li><li>Meet and exceed touchpoint goals for existing customers to ensure proactive cadence (e.g. consistent communication, Quarterly Business Reviews, etc).</li><li>Deliver onsite presentations including Onboarding Guide, Quarterly Business Reviews, Roadmap Sessions, Consumption Reporting, etc. to an Executive audience to drive business value realization and alignment.</li><li>Support and maintain relationships with key users and decision-makers at assigned customers, keeping them connected to value being added by our products through routine reports, presentations and outreach.</li><li>Act as a trusted advisor to develop and nurture customers to become strong advocates on behalf of Confluent.</li><li>Work across the organization as the customers champion to advocate for their needs and ensure company alignment in support of existing account base.</li><li>Contribute to continual improvements to our best practices for engagement, value-add, and renewal to meet long-term customer satisfaction and renewals goals.</li><li>Increase customer executive engagement and help arrange for executive invites to headquarters, marketing, and customer engagement events.</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>8+ years B2B experience in customer success, account management, sales or consulting roles with proven results within global, high-growth, technology companies.</li><li>SaaS sales/support model experience with focus on Product-led and Consumption-based sales model.</li><li>Demonstrative track record of building executive level relationships internally and externally and producing key artifacts to aid in communications.</li><li>Advanced written and verbal communication skills and proven facilitation capabilities.</li><li>Project management understanding and experience desired; familiarity with project management tools, such as Asana.</li><li>Tableau, Salesforce and other reporting/customer experience tools and experiences are preferred/valued.</li></ul><h2>What Gives You an Edge:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>3-5 bullet points maximum, describing the “preferred qualifications” of the role</li></ul><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

Strategic Customer Success Manager

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.<h2>About the Role:</h2>As a member of the Confluent Sales Team, the Strategic Account Executive is responsible for selling Confluent solutions to our National Accounts segment. We expect you to use your prospecting, sales, negotiation, and leadership skills to effectively sell Confluent offerings to leading companies to meet and exceed your quarterly sales target. You must possess a "consumption/growth" mentality with a proven track record of success within a value-driven sales model.<h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Responsible for driving revenue growth in our large, complex, and highly visible accounts. </li><li>Proactively prospect, identify, qualify, develop, and close a sales pipeline while continuing to grow consumption in current customer accounts.</li><li>Leading, driving, and executing a strategic complex sales cycle with responsibility for demonstrating the value of Confluent at C-Level. </li><li>Become an in-depth expert/SME of Confluent offerings, product suites, and competitive landscape. </li><li>Develop a deep understanding of your customers, their strategies, and business goals to become a trusted advisor. </li><li>Work closely with our partner ecosystem teams to sell to or through the ecosystem. </li><li>Align closely with our Solutions Engineering team on technical wins, Professional Services to deliver world-class customer experience, and Customer Success Management to identify and close expansion opportunities and renewals. </li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>12+ years of experience in quota-carrying sales roles in a competitive market with a focus on growing consumption within accounts/territory.</li><li>Prior experience in Big Data, Consumption, Cloud, SaaS, Open Source, or Enterprise IT Solutions.</li><li>Previous sales methodology training (i.e. MEDDPICC, Challenger, etc.).</li><li>Prior experience in leading and executing a highly complex sales strategy to increase and drive revenue growth.</li><li>Consistent track record of success and history of overachieving and hitting quota attainment.</li><li>Ability to articulate, educate, and sell the business value to businesses of all sizes. </li><li>Experience developing and improving processes and managing change within an organization. </li><li>Exceptional skills in relationship-building, customer relations, and negotiation skills.</li><li>Open to Travel to customer locations as needed.</li><li>BS/BA degree or equivalent preferred.</li></ul><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

Strategic Account Executive, National Accounts

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.<h2>About the Role:</h2>We’re looking for self-motivated team members who crave a challenge and feel energized to roll up their sleeves and help realize Confluent’s enormous potential. Chart your own path and take healthy risks as we solve big problems together. We value having diverse teams and want you to grow as we grow - whether you’re just starting out in your career or managing a large team, you’ll be amazed at the magnitude of your impact.<h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Working with customers to resolve a wide range of issues with their Confluent deployments</li><li>Contributing to process development - we’re a small team, so we’re looking for people who want to help us lay the foundation for growing efficiently and with a best-in-class culture</li><li>Communicating with our core engineering team to provide real-time product feedback from the field</li><li>Improving product documentation and authoring knowledge base articles</li><li>Creating and reviewing product demos and internal tooling</li><li>Working closely with the team behind Apache Kafka!</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Excitement in learning about streaming data and becoming a domain expert in Apache Kafka</li><li>Experience in diagnosing, reproducing, and resolving customer issues</li><li>Desire to make customers successful through direct interaction.</li><li>Willingness to work Sunday to Thursday work schedule</li><li>Two out of these three: - Experience troubleshooting applications running on Linux (resource contention, network bottlenecks, etc.) - Operational knowledge of Java applications (stack, jmap, etc.) - Experience with at least one mainstream distributed system (e.g. Kafka, Hadoop, Cassandra, etc.)</li></ul><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

Technical Support Engineer - Kafka (Sunday - Thursday schedule)

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.This role is offered to active duty service members who are enrolled in the Skillbridge program or are looking for a Skillbridge internship only. This is a contract role for up to 6 months. Interns will be paid through the Skillbridge Program by the Department of Defense.<h2>About the Role:</h2>This role will be a key member of the Go-To-Market Intelligence team to support the Sales and Customer Success Group (CSG) organizations. In this role, you will play a critical role in driving successful execution of GTMI programs and initiatives that accelerate revenue growth and enhance operational effectiveness. You will collaborate closely with our Sales and CSG Strategy &amp; Operations teams to maximize the impact brought through business insights.Skillbridge applicants will gain experience in program execution, cross-functional alignment, and driving measurable business outcomes, as well as develop experience supporting sales, pre-sales and/or a post-sales customer business. This position reports to the Director in GTM Intelligence.<h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Work with GTM Intelligence peers to rationalize strategic objectives and structure solutions that are executable by cross-functional teams</li><li>Manage strategic programs, tracking timelines, milestones and tasks; coordinate cross-functional stakeholders, and deliver periodic status updates</li><li>Partner with operations teams to ensure effective rollout of GTMI dashboards</li><li>Develop documentation, presentations, and enablement materials to maximize program effectiveness</li><li>Identify and remove roadblocks to progress, streamline processes, and champion operational excellence</li><li>Act as the glue within each program - develop creative solutions to drive forward progress when roadblocks are identified</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Experience in managing complex programs and projects with multiple stakeholders, objectives, and deliverables</li><li>Demonstrates effective time management and can accurately scope project complexity and resource requirements</li><li>The ability to communicate cross-functionally, derive requirements, set and meet deadlines</li><li>Keen attention to detail while completing complex tasks</li><li>Open, growth mindset and high degrees of self motivation, fostered in a fast-paced, high growth, dynamic environment</li><li>Ability to roll up sleeves when needed to get things moving</li><li>Clear, consistent demonstration of self-starter behavior and a desire to tackle complex challenges </li></ul><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

GTMI Program Manager- Skillbridge

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.<h2>About the Role:</h2>As a Staff Security Risk and Compliance Program Manager in the Trust &amp; Security organization you will play a critical role in fulfilling the vision to secure Confluent’s platform and cloud offerings through a combination of technical expertise, policy governance, security risk management, certification compliance and excellent program management skills. In this role, you'll be responsible for overseeing and maturing our compliance programs, ensuring we meet all relevant regulatory and legal obligations. You'll work closely with various departments to embed a culture of compliance throughout the organization and help us navigate a complex regulatory landscape. You will also develop metrics and reporting for senior leadership and executives. This is a senior-level position that requires strong leadership, deep expertise in compliance frameworks, and a data-driven approach to risk management.<h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Program Ownership: Develop, implement, and maintain Confluent's compliance program, policies, and procedures. Act as the primary owner of compliance initiatives, ensuring they are well-defined and executed on time.</li><li>Regulatory Liaison: Stay up-to-date with relevant security regulations, standards and industry best practices. Translate these requirements into actionable controls and processes. Act as a key point of contact for external auditors.</li><li>Compliance Readiness: Conduct compliance readiness assessments when there is a need to adopt a new framework. Identify compliance gaps and develop mitigation strategies along with technical and non-technical control &amp; process owners.</li><li>Compliance Maturity: Implement and operationalize a common control framework, assess control effectiveness regularly and identify areas for improvement.</li><li>Policy &amp; Training: Create and manage company-wide policies related to trust &amp; security. Develop and deliver training and awareness programs to educate employees on their compliance responsibilities.</li><li>Audit &amp; Reporting: Plan and execute internal and external compliance audits. Manage audits and oversee the collection of evidence. Prepare and present regular reports to senior leadership on the status of the compliance program, identified risks, and remediation efforts.</li><li>Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Legal, Engineering, Product, IT, and other business functions to ensure compliance requirements are built into new products, systems, and processes from the start.</li><li>Continuous Improvement: Drive a culture of continuous improvement, regularly reviewing and enhancing the compliance program to address evolving risks and regulatory changes.</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Experience: 8+ years of experience in GRC, with a significant portion of that time focused specifically on compliance and regulatory matters.</li><li>Technical Skills:<ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Strong understanding of compliance frameworks such as NIST, ISO 27001, SOC, PCI DSS, HITRUST, CSA Star, etc.</li><li>Experience with public sector compliance and international compliance frameworks (i.e. FedRAMP, CMMC, IRAP, Cyber Essential, C5, etc) is a strong plus.</li><li>Strong knowledge of and experience in all facets of integrated security governance, risk, and compliance management.</li><li>Strong security engineering fundamentals background in infrastructure security controls in GCP, AWS, Azure, and/or web application security</li></ul></li><li>Tooling and automation: Experience with implementing, operationalizing and maintaining GRC platforms.</li><li>Program Management Skills:<ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Strong project management and organizational skills.</li><li>Experience in running long-term, complex security programs that deliver iterative improvements and risk reduction.</li></ul></li><li>Communication and Collaboration skills: Excellent written and verbal communication skills. The ability to influence and lead without direct authority. Detail-oriented with a strong analytical mindset.</li><li>Certifications: Current Security CISSP, CRISC, CISM or equivalent certification completed or currently in progress is a plusNo use of non-inclusive words (e.g. rockstar, quota crusher)</li></ul><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

Staff Security Risk and Compliance Program Manager

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.Customer Success Technical Architects (CSTA) act as a trusted technical advisor and advocate to work with our customers. The primary objective of this role is to ensure the success, retention and expansion of our customers by providing technical guidance, including best practices for the Confluent product suite. You will partner with others in Customer Solutions as well as cross-functional divisions such as Sales, Product Management and Engineering to help our customers accelerate time to value, maximize product consumption and achieve their overall business objectives. The CSTA role is both deeply technical and commercial in nature. You will leverage your technical background (e.g. AppDev, SysAdmin, Distributed Computing) to advise customers on their architectures, including patterns &amp; strategies for operating and maturing their Confluent subscription. You will also utilize relationship management skills &amp; industry experience to guide the customer on how they can best achieve their business goals and value-based outcomes via their Confluent investment. In this role, you will have the opportunity to build broad experience with Kafka, Flink and Confluent IP as well as gain an understanding of complementary and competitive technologies. You will work with a variety of organizations ranging from new start-ups to large enterprise customers. Throughout these interactions, you will build strong relationships, ensure exemplary delivery standards, and have a lot of fun helping our customers build state-of-the-art data streaming platforms!<h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Champion and advocate for the customer within Confluent. You will be the technical voice of the customer and will leverage learned technical insights &amp; perspective while coordinating between</li><li>Confluent Sales, Product, Services, Support and Training teams to drive technical success.</li><li>Identify customer technical objections and develop strategies to address those blockers to adoption.</li><li>Proactively support customers through technical lifecycle activities such as architecture planning, cluster &amp; security design, monitoring &amp; automation; review &amp; provide guidance on upgrade or migration plans, platform &amp; application hardening ideas and high availability design.</li><li>Guide customers up the data streaming maturity curve through recommendations on advanced technical topics (e.g. data mesh, stream processing, utilization optimization &amp; performance tuning)</li><li>Develop and present periodic customer reviews, including analysis of technical health and operational performance, to Confluent senior management.</li><li>Document and transfer knowledge to customers and internal teams. This assists customers in advancing their knowledge &amp; abilities on their own, while also helping Technical Support Engineers and Professional Services teams to better serve your customers.</li><li>Leverage knowledge of your customer environments and use cases to influence the roadmap of Confluent products.</li><li>When necessary, roll up your sleeves and dig in to help address customer issues alongside Confluent Technical Support Engineers and Core Engineering.</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Bachelor's degree in computer science or engineering, mathematics, or other quantitative field</li><li>Demonstrated success in a technical Field role for a product / SaaS company with enterprise customers</li><li>Passion for working on complex technical problems, with a strong understanding of modern infrastructure and streaming technologies; self-starter who loves a fast-paced environment</li><li>Excellent interpersonal &amp; communication skills and an ability to concisely explain tricky issues and complex solutions to a variety of personas</li><li>Demonstrated ability to manage multiple customers at a time while paying strict attention to detail and delivering results across multiple initiatives such as driving expansion, customer satisfaction, feature adoption, and retention</li><li>Collaborative spirit, outstanding consulting &amp; relationship management skills and ability to rapidly switch context</li><li>Hands on knowledge of one or more key cloud vendors (AWS, GCP and Azure)</li><li>Solid understanding of cloud networking and security technologies (e.g. VPC, Private Link, Private Service Connect, TLS/SSL, SASL, Kerberos, etc.)</li><li>Experience prototyping and analyzing code for client solutions in multiple languages (e.g. Java, Python, Go, etc.)</li><li>Experience with Java Virtual Machine (JVM) tuning and troubleshooting</li><li>Experience with operating Linux, you know how to configure, tune and troubleshoot both RedHat &amp; Debian based distributions</li><li>Ability to learn new technologies quickly, as well as a strong interest in doing so!</li><li>Flexibility to travel up to 20% of the time</li></ul><h2>What Gives You an Edge:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Confluent Developer or Administrator certifications (<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.confluent.io/certification/">https://www.confluent.io/certification/</a>)</li><li>Experience with Apache Flink</li><li>Experience helping customers build distributed systems or streaming solutions that use Apache Kafka alongside technologies such as Spark, Flink, Hadoop, Cassandra, etc</li></ul><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

Customer Success Technical Architect

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.<h2>About the Role:</h2>We are developing Confluent’s Cost Estimator platform, a strategic internal web application that empowers users with intuitive and reliable features for workload sizing, forecasting, scenario modeling, and operational efficiency. By enabling data-driven decision-making prior to resource deployment, it helps stakeholders plan proactively, optimize usage, and manage Confluent’s expenditures with confidence.Applications Engineer at Confluent builds the internal tools and applications that empower our Solution Engineers and Account Executives to work smarter and faster. We seek a Senior Software Engineer who enjoys solving business problems with practical, maintainable solutions rather than building at massive consumer scale. This role is focused on developing internal-facing applications with a user base (~700+ employees), but with high business impact. You’ll own projects end-to-end, collaborate closely with internal stakeholders, and deliver intuitive, reliable, and secure applications that simplify workflows and drive productivity.<h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Design and implement Cost Estimator Internal Web Application</li><li>Work cross-functionally with Product Manager and Backend Engineers to deliver features</li><li>Translate business requirements into reliable code using React, and tools like (Webpack, Babel, etc.), GoLang and Postgres</li><li>Optimize applications for speed and scalability</li><li>Mentor and guide junior engineers, promoting a culture of growth, collaboration, and technical excellence throughout the team.</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related technical field.</li><li>5 to 8 years of professional experience developing, deploying, and maintaining production-grade Full Stack solutions.</li><li>Deep hands-on expertise with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, modern front-end frameworks (React), and expertise in backend technologies (GoLang).</li><li>Strong knowledge of Data Structures and Algorithms and excellent problem solving skills.</li><li>Proficiency in designing, developing and consuming RESTful APIs</li><li>Strong working knowledge of PostgreSQL database</li><li>Track record of leveraging cloud platform (AWS) and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) for deployment of Web applications.</li><li>Skilled practitioner of Agile development methodologies and comfortable using project management and collaboration tools.</li><li>Recognized for successfully delivering projects independently and collaboratively within dynamic, cross-functional environments.</li></ul><h2></h2><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

Senior Application Software Engineer

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.<h2>About the Role:</h2>As a core member of the Identity &amp; Authentication team, you will be at the forefront of securing our entire organization. This is a high-impact role where you will design and implement robust identity lifecycle management for users and services, as well as scalable authentication methods like OAuth and mTLS. You'll play a vital part in our cross-functional efforts, collaborating closely with product, engineering, and security teams to build frictionless yet secure access solutions. Your contributions will directly enhance our security posture and ensure a seamless experience for our customers.<h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Independently drive execution of projects and deploy them to production with a focus on quality and customer impact.</li><li>Collaborate effectively with a high performing team and cross-functional partners and make decisions which benefit the team and company.</li><li>Troubleshoot issues, perform root cause analysis and improve operations for complex problems that span all clouds.</li><li>Produce clean, well-documented, and maintainable code that adheres to established team standards and security best practices.</li><li>Deliver value for customers by taking on their most challenging problems.</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>2-5 years of relevant software, product and/or security engineering experience</li><li>Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development</li><li>Experience building and operating large-scale systems in the Cloud</li><li>Solid understanding of basic systems operations (disk, network, operating systems, etc)</li><li>Proficiency in Java, Scala, C/C++, Go or other statically typed languages</li></ul><h2>What Gives You An Edge:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Experience in both frontend and backend stacks</li><li>Experience in the areas of security, identity and access management</li><li>Experience/knowledge with public clouds (AWS, Azure or GCP)</li><li>Interest in evangelism (giving talks at tech conferences, writing blog posts evangelizing IAM and Security concepts)</li></ul><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

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.<h2>About the Role:</h2>We’re looking for self-motivated team members who crave a challenge and feel energized to roll up their sleeves and help realize Confluent’s enormous potential. Chart your own path and take healthy risks as we solve big problems together. We value having diverse teams and want you to grow as we grow.As a Technical Support Engineer, you'll be the crucial link between our client services and engineering teams, driving customer success by helping to identify and resolve critical business issues. You'll work directly with customers, providing expertise in software development and operations, and leveraging deep knowledge of best practices for using Apache Kafka and complementary services in both Confluent Platform and Confluent Cloud.<h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Working with customers to resolve a wide range of issues with their Confluent deployments</li><li>Contributing to process development - we are a small team, so we are looking for people who want to help us lay the foundation for growing efficiently and with a best-in-class culture</li><li>Communicating with our core engineering team to provide real-time product feedback from the field</li><li>Improving product documentation and authoring knowledge base articles and runbooks</li><li>Continuously enhance personal and team knowledge of Apache Kafka and associated products</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Prior experience as a Technical Support Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), or DevOps specialist, with a focus on platform and cloud infrastructure.</li><li>Knowledge of and troubleshooting experience with cloud networking on at least one cloud provider. For example, with AWS: you should be familiar with VPC, PrivateLink, Security Groups, NACLs, and Route 53.</li><li>Hands-on experience with Ansible, Terraform or any other Infrastructure as Code(IaC) tools.</li><li>Or you have experience with Kubernetes management or application deployment on K8s.</li><li>Knowledge of SSL/TLS and hands on troubleshooting experience.</li><li>Knowledge of various authentication techniques (basic, token, OAuth, SSO).</li><li>Knowledge of Authorization concepts (ACLs and RBAC).</li><li>Proven experience troubleshooting applications in Linux/Unix environments and familiarity with command-line tools.</li><li>A strong understanding of the Kafka protocol or a willingness to become an expert in Apache Kafka.</li><li>Experience diagnosing, reproducing, and resolving customer issues.</li><li>Desire to make customers successful through direct interaction.</li><li>Looking for candidates sitting in EST or CST time zones to support clients </li></ul><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

Technical Support Engineer -Infrastructure & Cloud

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.<h2>About the Role:</h2>At Confluent, we live by a core value: Earn Our Customers' Love. As a Customer Solutions Consultant (CSC), you'll be a vital partner to our customers, empowering them to unlock the full value of their investment in our cutting-edge streaming data platform.In this dynamic role, you'll manage a diverse portfolio of customers, from Mid-Market to Enterprise and Strategic accounts. You'll work hand-in-hand with teams across Customer Solutions, Sales, Product, and Engineering, driving activities that ensure technical health, product adoption, and demonstrable value realization. Your efforts will be critical in fostering customer growth and retention.This position is perfect for individuals who are passionate about technology, eager to solve complex business problems, and possess a strong customer-centric mindset. You'll deepen your technical expertise in Kafka, Flink, and Confluent IP, while leveraging your customer-facing skills in a high-growth environment. You'll collaborate with some of the world's most renowned companies, helping them achieve mission-critical outcomes. We're looking for curious, motivated professionals ready to accelerate their development and make a significant impact from day one.<h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Serve as a Trusted Technical Advisor: Build strong relationships with customers, becoming their go-to technical expert across your diverse portfolio. Proactively support customers through the technical lifecycle, including architecture planning, cluster and security design, monitoring, and automation.</li><li>Lead Post-Sale Engagements: Act as a primary technical contact post-sale, coordinating with internal teams to ensure successful outcomes. Guide customers in maturing their data streaming utilization and optimizing their usage through regular technical health reviews. Introduce new product capabilities via roadmap review sessions and plan for their adoption.</li><li>Drive Customer Success: Collaborate with support engineers to troubleshoot issues, identify root causes, and provide actionable insights for customers to take corrective action. Pinpoint technical objections and strategize to overcome adoption blockers. Identify potential risks and execute mitigation plans with internal stakeholders to prevent customer churn.</li><li>Develop Deep Technical Expertise: Cultivate an in-depth understanding of Confluent's technologies and the intricacies of building streaming applications to resolve complex customer challenges.</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Experience &amp; Technical Aptitude: 5-8 years of experience in Solutions Engineering, Software Development, Data Engineering, Data Architecture, Cloud Architecture, or similar roles. You'll have a passion for solving complex technical problems with a strong understanding of modern infrastructure and streaming technologies, thriving as a self-starter in a fast-paced environment.</li><li>Exceptional Communication: Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to concisely explain complex issues and solutions to a variety of technical and non-technical personas.</li><li>Customer Portfolio Management: Demonstrated ability to manage a large customer portfolio, paying strict attention to detail and delivering results across multiple initiatives like driving expansion, customer satisfaction, feature adoption, and retention.</li><li>Cloud &amp; Networking Expertise: Experience with cloud and on-premises architectures, along with a solid understanding of cloud networking and security technologies (e.g., VPC, Private Link, Private Service Connect, TLS/SSL, SASL, Kerberos).</li><li>Distributed Systems Knowledge: Experience with distributed systems and infrastructure software such as databases, message queues, Kubernetes, serverless technologies, and/or Big Data products, including developing ETL applications.</li><li>Development &amp; Automation: Experience with software development tools, configuration management, infrastructure automation, and CI/CD tooling (e.g., Terraform, Ansible) is a plus.</li><li>Programming Flexibility: Development language agnostic, with proficiency in Java, Python, or SQL.</li><li>Customer-Centric Mindset: A strong customer-centric approach, understanding the customer journey framework and the ability to prescribe ideal outcomes, guiding customers along their path to success.</li><li>Project Management Skills: Proven project management experience for effective internal stakeholder management, coordinating with various teams to ensure overall account success.</li></ul><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

Customer Solutions Consultant

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.<h2>About the Role:</h2>This pivotal role sits at the center of Confluent’s most ambitious narratives. As Director of Product Marketing for DSP &amp; Events, you will shape the core product narrative for our Data Streaming Platform and bring it to life in our most critical external moments—from key product launches, innovation keynotes at flagship events, external marketing activities, field events, and more. You’ll also work closely with our specialist field leaders to establish product market fit for new products as they go to market.You will lead a team of PMMs focused on DSP (including Flink, Tableflow, Connect, and Governance) and own the platform-level narrative that unites these innovations into a compelling vision. Your work will directly influence how customers, analysts, and the broader market perceive Confluent’s leadership in streaming.In this role, you’ll partner closely with our Product Leaders, PMM, and Technical Marketing teams to translate roadmap innovations into high-impact narratives, GTM strategies, and event moments. You’ll also collaborate with Analyst Relations to shape perception in Magic Quadrants, Waves, and industry reports, ensuring our platform vision is recognized and reinforced.This is a highly visible, strategic leadership role requiring a unique blend of storytelling, technical depth, and market insight. You will inspire both internal and external audiences, driving clarity of vision for customers, partners, analysts, and our field.<h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Build the Core Product narrative: Develop and maintain the platform story that ties together Core Kafka, Flink, Tableflow, Connect, and Governance into a unified DSP vision.</li><li>Translate roadmap into launches and GTM: Build launch strategies and GTM plans for DSP innovations, ensuring product market fit, crisp positioning and broad market impact.</li><li>Drive marquee events: Shape and deliver the product marketing strategy for tier-1 events (e.g., Current), working with executives to create inspiring innovation keynotes.</li><li>Lead and develop a team: Manage and grow a small but high-performing DSP PMM team, coaching them to deliver high-quality messaging, content, and execution.</li><li>Collaborate cross-functionally: Align with Product, Technical Marketing, Field, and Sales teams to ensure consistency of DSP messaging across all channels.</li><li>Monitor the market: Stay ahead of competitive moves, customer needs, and industry shifts to keep our DSP positioning sharp and differentiated.</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>10+ years in Product Marketing (enterprise, developer, data, or infrastructure products strongly preferred).</li><li>3+ years leading PMM teams with a proven ability to coach, develop, and scale high-performing talent.</li><li>Strong track record in platform-level positioning and narrative development, not just feature-level marketing.</li><li>Deep experience with tier-1 event storytelling and working directly with executives on keynote content.</li><li>Strong executive presence and communication skills; ability to create content and narratives for customers, analysts, and C-level audiences.</li><li>Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally and influence at all levels of the organization.</li></ul><h2>What Gives You an Edge:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Background in streaming, data infrastructure, or AI/ML</li><li>Track record of building compelling product launches</li><li>Experience building compelling content for keynotes, events</li><li>On-stage or public speaking experience at industry events.</li><li>Ability to connect highly technical concepts with business outcomes in a clear, engaging way.</li></ul><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

Director, Product Marketing — Data Streaming Platform & Events PMM

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.<h2>About the Role:</h2>Confluent Solutions Engineers drive the technical evaluation stage of the overall sales process, making them critical drivers of customer success as real-time data streams become more and more important in the modern enterprise. In this role, you will be the key technical advisor to the sales team, work very closely with the product management and engineering teams, and serve as a vital product advocate in front of prospects, customers, and the wider Kafka and Big Data communities.You will be a key technical advisor to Confluent customers as they undertake technical design and development of their end-to-end solution, be conversant with the current state and future roadmap of Kafka in open source, and be able to identify known issues and inform them of upcoming fixes or workarounds. You’ll also be responsible for clear articulation of Confluent’s technical and product positioning to a wide variety of business and technical stakeholders, and for forging strong relationships with them throughout the sales cycle and beyond.<h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Help advance new &amp; innovative Data Streaming use-cases from conception to Go-Live</li><li>Execute on and lead Technical Proofs of Concept</li><li>Conduct Discovery &amp; Whiteboard Sessions to develop new use-cases</li><li>Provide Thought Leadership by delivering Technical Talks and Workshops</li><li>Guide customers with hands-on help and best practice to drive operational maturity of their Confluent Deployment</li><li>Analyze Customer Consumption trends and identify Optimization opportunities</li><li>Work closely with Product and Engineering teams, and serve as a key Product advocate across the Customer, Partner and Industry ecosystem</li><li>Forge strong relationships with key customer stakeholders and serve as a dependable partner for them</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Becoming a Trusted Advisor to key customer personas we engage with including Software Engineers, Architects and Technical Executives to drive platform consumption</li><li>Autonomously lead engagements with customers whilst working closely with Account Executive and other internal teams</li><li>Having an understanding of MEDDIC/MEDDPICC or similar frameworks used for qualification</li><li>Exceptional presentation and communications capabilities. Confidence presenting to a highly skilled and experienced audience, including enterprise architects and C-level executives</li><li>Experience with technical sales of distributed systems, infrastructure software like databases, message queues, SaaS, or Big Data products</li><li>Some experience in Java or Python and familiarity with developing ETL applications</li><li>Bachelor’s level degree in Computer Science or relevant experience</li></ul><h2>What Gives You an Edge: </h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Previous experience building solutions with Apache Kafka</li><li>Understanding of systems operations concepts (disk, network, operating systems, etc)</li><li>Experience building and operating large scale systems</li></ul><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

Solutions Engineer

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.<h2>About the Role:</h2>Confluent is seeking an innovative and executing Staff Engineer to help make stream processing feel like using a database with SQL. In this role, you will be instrumental in developing the core building blocks that will allow users a true just-in time, consumption based experience, making it the most efficient and fast cloud native Apache Flink experience on the market. You will be working in a team with other known Flink experts iterating on an already existing implementation based on actual usage data and product requirements. With the team you will also be working on relevant components of open source Apache Flink that will benefit both the Open Source community as well as Confluent.<h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Work on the next iterations of Flink SQL components such as logical query planner, parser, optimizer and SQL runtime on Confluent Cloud to deliver an efficient and unified experience for batch and streaming workloads.</li><li>Following a holistic development approach you will be responsible for the code quality, test coverage, documentation and maintainability of the components you and your team work on.</li><li>Designing Components: You will not only implement aspects of Flink SQL but also draft designs, discuss them and curate and moderate a decision with involved stakeholders.</li><li>Open Source contribution: As part of the Flink SQL team you will contribute to relevant changes and features to Open Source Apache Flink and help the community to maintain a high quality project by participating in relevant mailing list discussions, reviewing PRs affecting deployment and coordination components.</li><li>Open Source visibility: You will also write blog posts and give talks at meetups and conferences to strengthen the position of Confluent Cloud as industry experts for stream processing and Apache Flink in particular.</li><li>Team: As part of the team you will help to follow and maintain processes, by being an active part of the team, leading meetings and taking initiatives where feasible and participating in on-call rotations.</li><li>Mentoring: You will mentor other engineers with less experience in Apache Flink to get started in the community and more junior developers to get into the area of serverless Apache Flink.</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>10+ years of relevant software development experience.</li><li>Technical Expertise: Deep knowledge of database internals, especially around query planning and optimization. Extensive experience in software development, including hands-on experience in designing and development of complex distributed systems.</li><li>Problem Solving: Strong problem-solving skills, capable of translating complex requirements into effective solutions.</li><li>Communication: Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to collaborate across teams.</li><li>Industry Engagement: Active involvement in stream processing communities, conferences, and a strong network within the industry.</li></ul><h2></h2><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

Staff Software Engineer - Flink SQL

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.<h2>About the Role:</h2>We are a team of passionate engineers who love solving complex distributed systemsand infrastructure problems. Real-time infrastructure is the future, and we are creating anew category for it - ‘Data in Motion. Cloud Applications primary focus is to develop applications in data streaming, data processing, data governance, and AI, and deliver them in the cloud through world class customer experiences. You could be on the following team:<ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>API &amp; Monetization Platform</li><li>Kafka - Kora Orchestration</li><li>Kafka - Kora Compute Broker</li><li>Kafka - Apache Kafka Java Clients</li></ul>Tech in Toronto! Toronto is an early career engineer hub for Confluent. Your role will bea hybrid working model that introduces you to Confluent's culture and enables fasterlearning, onboarding, and coaching. During the first year of employment, all Software Engineers globally will be required to participate in the SWE Onboarding program and go into their Confluent office 2-3 days (days to be determined) per week.<h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>To design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve software that will touch</li><li>production and have a customer-facing impact</li><li>Follow best practices for software development and participate in code reviews</li><li>Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables</li><li>Help build the next generation Kafka by continuing to push the boundaries of distributed system design</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience</li><li>Self-motivated and able to drive projects with mentorship and project requirements</li><li>Ability to work effectively in teams and strong verbal and written communication skills</li><li>Good knowledge of data structures and algorithms and are proficient in at least one of these languages: Java/Scala, C, C++, GoSmart, humble, and empathetic</li><li>Driven and excited about the challenges of a fast-paced, innovative, and quickly growing software development environment</li><li>Interested in building large-scale distributed systems in the cloud and are excited to make an impact</li></ul><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

Cloud Applications Software Engineer

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.<h2>About the Role:</h2>Solutions Engineers at Confluent drive not only the early-stage evaluation within the sales process, but also play a crucial role in enabling ongoing value-realization for customers, all while helping them move up the adoption maturity curve. In this role you’ll partner with Account Executives to be the key technical advisor in service of the customer. You’ll be instrumental in surfacing the customers’ stated or implicit Business Needs, and coming up with Technical Designs to best meet these needs. You may find yourself at times facilitating art of the possible discussions and storytelling to inspire customers in adopting new patterns with confidence, and at other times driving creative solutioning to help get past difficult technical roadblocks. Overall, we look upon Solutions Engineers to be a key cog within the Customer Solutions team that help foster an environment of sustained success for the customer and incremental adoption of Confluent’s Technology.<h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Help advance new &amp; innovative data streaming use-cases from conception to go-live</li><li>Execute on and lead technical proof of concepts</li><li>Conduct discovery &amp; whiteboard Sessions to develop new use-cases</li><li>Provide thought Leadership by delivering technical talks and workshops</li><li>Guide customers with hands-on help and best practice to drive operational maturity of their Confluent deployment</li><li>Analyze customer consumption trends and identify optimization opportunities</li><li>Work closely with product and engineering teams, and serve as a key product advocate across the customer, partner and Industry ecosystem</li><li>Forge strong relationships with key customer stakeholders and serve as a dependable partner for them</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>8+ years of Sales/Pre-Sales/Solutions Engineering or similar customer facing experience in the software sales or implementation space</li><li>Experience with event-driven architecture, data integration &amp; processing techniques, database &amp; data warehouse technologies, or related fields</li><li>First-Hand exposure to cloud architecture, migrations, deployment &amp; application development</li><li>Experience with DevOps/Automation, GitOps or Kubernetes</li><li>Ability to read &amp; write Java, Python or SQL</li><li>Clear, consistent demonstration of self-starter behavior, a desire to learn new things and tackle hard technical problems</li><li>Exceptional presentation and communications capabilities. Confidence presenting to a highly skilled and experienced audience, ranging from developers to enterprise architects and up to C-level executives</li><li>Excellent skills in cross functional collaboration to work effectively and harmoniously with others to achieve common goals.</li></ul><h2>What Gives You an Edge:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Technical certifications - cloud developer/architect, data engineering &amp; integration</li><li>Familiarity with solution or value Selling</li><li>A challenger mindset and an ability to positively influence peoples’ opinions</li></ul><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

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.<h2>About the Role:</h2>Technical Support Engineers work at the intersection of our client services and engineering teams and drive customer success by helping identify and resolve critical business issues. In this role you will interact directly with our customers to provide software development and operations expertise, leveraging deep knowledge of best practices in the use of Apache Kafka, the broader Confluent Platform, as well as complementary systems. You will be hands-on in fixing issues seen by Confluent customers and contributing fixes back to the open source community. Throughout all of these interactions, you will build strong relationships with customers, ensuring exemplary support and timely resolution to customer requests.<h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Working with customers to resolve a wide range of issues with their Confluent deployments</li><li>Contributing to process development - we are a small team, so we are looking for people who want to help us lay the foundation for growing efficiently and with a best-in-class culture</li><li>Communicating with our core engineering team to provide real-time product feedback from the field</li><li>Improving product documentation and authoring knowledge base articles</li><li>Creating and reviewing product demos and internal tooling</li><li>Working closely with the team behind Apache Kafka!</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>1+ years of related experience</li><li>Must be able to work PST timezone</li><li>Excitement in learning about streaming data and becoming a domain expert in Apache Kafka</li><li>Experience in diagnosing, reproducing, and resolving customer issues</li><li>Desire to make customers successful through direct interaction</li><li>Two out of these three:<ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Experience troubleshooting applications running on Linux (resource contention, network bottlenecks, etc.)</li><li>Operational knowledge of Java applications (jstack,jmap, etc.)</li><li>Experience with at least one mainstream distributed system (e.g. Kafka, Hadoop, Cassandra, etc.)</li></ul></li></ul><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

Technical Support Engineer

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.<h2>About the Role</h2>We are seeking a Manager of the Escalation Management team to join our Global Technical Support organisation at Confluent. This is a remote leadership position responsible for overseeing a team of Escalation Managers within the global Escalation Management function, supporting customers who use Confluent’s cloud and on-prem products through escalation and incident management processes. The Manager will drive operational excellence, ensure customer satisfaction, and foster continuous improvement through effective leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and process optimisation.<h2>What You Will Do</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Take accountability for direct reports and team members located across the EMEA, APAC, and AMER regions, fostering effective collaboration and regular interaction with employees in each region to ensure seamless execution of escalation management responsibilities.</li><li>Lead, coach, and develop a team of Escalation Managers, ensuring high performance, engagement, and professional growth.</li><li>Oversee and prioritise the handling of customer escalations and incidents, driving team accountability for resolution time and customer experience.</li><li>Foster a culture of empathy, problem-solving, and continuous improvement across the team.</li><li>Monitor trends, root causes, and metrics related to escalations; recommend and implement process improvements to drive operational efficiency and better outcomes.</li><li>Act as a senior escalation point for critical incidents, ensuring swift resolution and effective communication with customers and internal teams.</li><li>Guide team members in coordinating large cross-functional efforts, both internally and with customers, ensuring effective communication and executive-level reporting.</li><li>Collaborate closely with Product Support, Engineering, Customer Success, and other stakeholders to advocate for customer needs and drive systemic improvements.</li><li>Facilitate regular review and knowledge-sharing sessions to keep the team informed of technical updates, best practices, and lessons learned.</li><li>Ensure adherence to and evolution of escalation and incident response processes; oversee seamless execution of regional and global transitions.</li><li>Manage scheduling, including coverage for weekends and holidays, to guarantee 24/7 support continuity.</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Proven track record in Technology leadership with specific experience in managing teams in the area of Escalation Management, Technical Support, Incident Response, or related customer-facing leadership roles.</li><li>Proven team leadership and people management experience, including hiring, coaching, and performance management.</li><li>Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence and lead cross-functional groups.</li><li>Demonstrated ability to analyse complex technical issues and guide teams toward effective solutions.</li><li>Experience developing and driving process improvements within a technical support or escalation environment.</li><li>Excellent collaboration skills, with a track record of building relationships and advocating for customers both internally and externally.</li><li>Steady, empathetic approach to stressful and high-impact situations.</li><li>Working knowledge of Confluent products and related technologies is preferred.</li></ul><h2>Come As You Are</h2>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.<h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

Manager, Escalation Management

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.<h2>About the Role:</h2>Confluent’s Global Technical Support Team is a critical part of why our customers love us. Our Managers of Technical Support are responsible for leading specialized teams of engineers as they work to support our customers throughout the development and operation of Confluent Platform and Cloud environments. Strong empathy and communication skills are a must. You should have a passion for making customers successful and be willing to own and refine the operational processes needed for scaling a growing team. This position is remote.<h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Build a great team and company. Help to develop strong relationships, capabilities, and experience among Confluent team members.</li><li>Manage, grow, and mentor a team of remote and/or local engineers, including owning the hiring process for adding members to your team and fostering deep technical expertise within a specific product or technology.</li><li>Own the operational health of your team, including ticket queue management, staffing, and performance. Help develop and continually improve Confluent support offerings and operations for existing and new products, driving team performance against key metrics like CSAT, SLA Adherence, and QA review scores.</li><li>Analyze and present team performance, trends, and business impact in monthly operational reports and quarterly business reviews.</li><li>Respond to and resolve customer escalations - this will involve being in an on-call rotation.</li><li>Ensure robust coverage and scheduling for your team to manage ticket load and meet service level agreements.</li><li>Own the relationship between your specialized team support and engineering and, when necessary, help coordinate escalations across functional groups within Confluent to help meet customer needs.</li><li>Collaborate with other teams involved in Customer Success.</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>3+ years of experience hiring and managing technical teams of local and/or remote employees.</li><li>Experience working in a customer facing support role and handling escalated issues</li><li>A commitment to metric-driven management and data-driven decision making with experience owning and reporting on team KPIs.</li><li>A desire to make customers successful through direct interaction.</li><li>Experience working cross-functionally to develop and improve processes and resolve issues.</li><li>Experience leading a specialized or tier-3 technical team is a plus.</li></ul><h2></h2><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

Manager, Technical Support Engineering

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:Are you passionate about making a difference in the Enterprise software space and would like to join an organisation where you can really make a difference? Are you a Customer Success Manager, who understands the transformational role that real-time data will play in driving business success? If so, we are seeking your talent as we are a growing Software organisation and value your voice as a Senior Customer Success Manager. Confluent has not even scratched the surface of the market opportunity, we have a culture that aligns with the exceptional values of our company and we’ve won over 20 awards to evidence that, and the message we have for you is this; Companies are buying, we have a large untapped market where, with some hard work and a common goal, you have the opportunity to earn well, do a job you love and be something really special.A career within our collaborative organisation will present you with unique and endless possibilities and challenges; you will play a key role in driving Customer Success, renewals and subscription expansion within our Large Enterprise accounts. You will be a trusted advisor to our Enterprise customers, where you help them to fully utilise the Confluent platform.What You Will Do:<ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Own the ultimate success of our Enterprise customers in your territory, ensuring they realise the full value of the Confluent platform.</li><li>Own the consumption planning, use case mapping, IP adoption, and business value realisation of your customers.</li><li>Actively contribute to the Account Strategy set by the Account Director and Account Team you’ll be a part of aligned to the set business goals and objectives.</li><li>Meet/exceed quarterly renewal targets by proactively managing your customer portfolio and ensuring on-time customer retention.</li><li>Identify and collaborate with the sales team regarding expansion, up-sell, and additional service/support opportunities within accounts.</li><li>Coordinate the engagement of other Confluent resources (e.g. Customer Operations, Sales, etc.) to ensure ongoing customer success.</li><li>Promote the use of Confluent features and technology, Communicating ROI throughout the customer lifecycle to stakeholders of all levels</li><li>Maintain relationships with key users and decision makers at assigned customers, keeping them connected to value being added by our products.</li><li>Champion and advocate for Enterprise customer requirements within Confluent.</li><li>Proactively identify issues/risks and escalate internally for prompt resolution.</li><li>Act as the voice of the customer and collect feedback to drive continuous improvement across all areas including product.</li></ul>What You Will Bring:<ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>You have experience in a Customer Success capacity with a track record of increasing customer satisfaction, adoption, and retention.</li><li>Comfortable working with Enterprise organisations.</li><li>You are data-driven in your decisions and assume full ownership and accountability for your work.</li><li>You are a team player who can navigate complex stakeholder dynamics and ensure that the optimal business outcomes are achieved through the engaged resources.</li><li>You are a great and thoughtful communicator and listener.</li><li>Salesforce and Tableau user fluency.</li><li>You'll have the ability to articulate, educate and advise the business value to businesses of all sizes</li><li>You have prior experience with large strategic customers and have previously successfully managed a book of business of 5-6 customers of a combined $10M ARR or more.</li><li>You have prior experience with data streaming or cloud software technologies.</li></ul><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

Senior Customer Success Manager

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:Are you passionate about making a difference in the Enterprise software space and would like to join an organisation where you can really make a difference? Are you a Customer Success Manager, who understands the transformational role that real-time data will play in driving business success?If so, we are seeking your talent as we are a growing Software organisation and value your voice. Confluent has not even scratched the surface of the market opportunity, we have a culture that aligns with the exceptional values of our company and we’ve won over 20 awards to evidence that, and the message we have for you is this; Companies are buying, we have a large untapped market where, with some hard work and a common goal, you have the opportunity to earn well, do a job you love and be something really special.A career within our collaborative organisation will present you with unique and endless possibilities and challenges; you will play a key role in driving Customer Success, renewals and subscription expansion within our Large Enterprise accounts. You will be a trusted advisor to our Enterprise customers, where you help them to fully utilise the Confluent platform.What You Will Do:<ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Own the ultimate success of our Enterprise customers in your territory, ensuring they realise the full value of the Confluent platform.</li><li>Own the consumption planning, use case mapping, IP adoption, and business value realisation of your customers.</li><li>Actively contribute to the Account Strategy set by the Account Director and Account Team you’ll be a part of aligned to the set business goals and objectives.</li><li>Meet/exceed quarterly renewal targets by proactively managing your customer portfolio and ensuring on-time customer retention.</li><li>Identify and collaborate with the sales team regarding expansion, up-sell, and additional service/support opportunities within accounts.</li><li>Coordinate the engagement of other Confluent resources (e.g. Customer Operations, Sales, etc.) to ensure ongoing customer success.</li><li>Promote the use of Confluent features and technology, Communicating ROI throughout the customer lifecycle to stakeholders of all levels</li><li>Maintain relationships with key users and decision makers at assigned customers, keeping them connected to value being added by our products.</li><li>Champion and advocate for Enterprise customer requirements within Confluent.</li><li>Proactively identify issues/risks and escalate internally for prompt resolution.</li><li>Act as the voice of the customer and collect feedback to drive continuous improvement across all areas including product.</li></ul>What You Will Bring:<ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>You have experience in a Customer Success capacity with a track record of increasing customer satisfaction, adoption, and retention.</li><li>Comfortable working with Enterprise organisations.</li><li>You are data-driven in your decisions and assume full ownership and accountability for your work.</li><li>You are a team player who can navigate complex stakeholder dynamics and ensure that the optimal business outcomes are achieved through the engaged resources.</li><li>You are a great and thoughtful communicator and listener.</li><li>Salesforce and Tableau user fluency.</li><li>You'll have the ability to articulate, educate and advise the business value to businesses of all sizes</li><li>You have prior experience with large strategic customers and have previously successfully managed a book of business of 5-6 customers of a combined $10M ARR or more.</li><li>You have prior experience with data streaming or cloud software technologies.</li></ul><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

Customer Success Manager - Israel

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:<ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>At Confluent, one of our core values is to ‘Earn Our Customers’ Love’. As an Account Manager, you will be a key partner to our customers, helping them unlock the full value of their investment in our platform.</li><li>In this role, you’ll work with a portfolio of customers, working closely with internal and customer stakeholders to understand their goals, use cases, and challenges. You’ll design and drive tailored success and implementation plans that anchor engagement &amp; accelerate adoption, ensure high retention and support customers as their use of the platform matures and scales.</li><li>This is an ideal opportunity for someone who loves technology but equally enjoys solving business problems for customers.</li><li>You will play a key role in driving Customer Success, renewals and expansion.</li><li>This role is ideally suited for individuals with an existing background in Account Management, Customer Success or Sales.</li></ul>What You Will Do:<ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Act as a Trusted Business Partner: foster strong relationships with customers by establishing yourself as their go-to advisor. Help them adopt and expand their use of Confluent to drive real business value.</li><li>Own the ultimate success of our customers in your territory, ensuring they realise the full value of the Confluent platform.</li><li>Own the consumption planning, use case mapping, IP adoption, and business value realisation of your book of business.</li><li>Design and execute the Account Strategy and Success Plan on the whole portfolio of customers.</li><li>Meet/exceed quarterly renewal targets by proactively managing your customer portfolio and ensuring on-time customer retention.</li><li>Coordinate the engagement of other Confluent resources (e.g. Customer Solutions Consultants, Professional Services, Product Managers, Support, Legal, etc.) to ensure ongoing customer satisfaction.</li><li>Promote the use of Confluent features and technology, communicating ROI throughout the customer lifecycle to stakeholders of all levels.</li><li>Build and maintain strong relationships with key users and decision makers at assigned customers, keeping them connected to technical and business value being added by our platform of solutions.</li><li>Proactively identify blockers/risk and escalate internally for prompt resolution.</li><li>Act as the voice of the customer and collect feedback to drive continuous improvement across all areas including product.</li></ul>What You Will Bring:<ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Previous experience (at least 6 years) in either Sales, Customer Success or Account Management, with a proven track record of revenue growth.</li><li>Proven track record of onboarding and supporting customers to deliver high customer satisfaction, advocacy, and loyalty.</li><li>Prior experience in the enterprise and/or cloud software space.</li><li>Analytical mindset: monitor KPIs and behavioral trends to prioritize at-risk customers in a large portfolio.</li><li>Aptitude to pick up technology and become proficient in mapping customer’s business goals to Confluent’s features and functionalities.</li><li>Experience in managing timely renewals and forecasting for a large set of customers.</li><li>Excellent communication – create engaging email campaigns, provide best practices and deliver enablement to help deflect support tickets and facilitate success at scale.</li><li>Strong presentation skills, capable of explaining complex issues and solutions to a highly skilled and experienced audience.</li><li>Strong team player who can navigate complex stakeholder dynamics and ensure that the optimal business outcomes are achieved through the engaged resources.</li><li>Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-pressure, dynamic start-up environment.</li><li>Clear, consistent demonstration of self-starter behaviour and a desire to solve challenging technical and non-technical problems with minimal supervision.</li><li>Excellent Project management experience for effective internal stakeholder management, coordinating with various teams to ensure account success.</li><li>This is a hybrid work position.</li></ul>What Gives You an Edge:<ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>A minimum of 5 years of prior experience working in a technology company or related field.</li><li>An additional language (Italian, Hebrew, German, Dutch, Swedish).</li></ul><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

Account Manager

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:<ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>At Confluent, one of our core values is to ‘Earn Our Customers’ Love’. As an Account Manager, you will be a key partner to our customers, helping them unlock the full value of their investment in our platform.</li><li>In this role, you’ll work with a portfolio of customers, working closely with internal and customer stakeholders to understand their goals, use cases, and challenges. You’ll design and drive tailored success and implementation plans that anchor engagement &amp; accelerate adoption, ensure high retention and support customers as their use of the platform matures and scales.</li><li>This is an ideal opportunity for someone who loves technology but equally enjoys solving business problems for customers.</li><li>You will play a key role in driving Customer Success, renewals and expansion.</li><li>This role is ideally suited for individuals with an existing background in Account Management, Customer Success or Sales.</li><li>German speaking is a must</li></ul>What You Will Do:<ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Act as a Trusted Business Partner: foster strong relationships with customers by establishing yourself as their go-to advisor. Help them adopt and expand their use of Confluent to drive real business value.</li><li>Own the ultimate success of our customers in your territory, ensuring they realise the full value of the Confluent platform.</li><li>Own the consumption planning, use case mapping, IP adoption, and business value realisation of your book of business.</li><li>Design and execute the Account Strategy and Success Plan on the whole portfolio of customers.</li><li>Meet/exceed quarterly renewal targets by proactively managing your customer portfolio and ensuring on-time customer retention.</li><li>Coordinate the engagement of other Confluent resources (e.g. Customer Solutions Consultants, Professional Services, Product Managers, Support, Legal, etc.) to ensure ongoing customer satisfaction.</li><li>Promote the use of Confluent features and technology, communicating ROI throughout the customer lifecycle to stakeholders of all levels.</li><li>Build and maintain strong relationships with key users and decision makers at assigned customers, keeping them connected to technical and business value being added by our platform of solutions.</li><li>Proactively identify blockers/risk and escalate internally for prompt resolution.</li><li>Act as the voice of the customer and collect feedback to drive continuous improvement across all areas including product.</li></ul>What You Will Bring:<ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Previous experience (at least 6 years) in either Sales, Customer Success or Account Management, with a proven track record of revenue growth.</li><li>Proven track record of onboarding and supporting customers to deliver high customer satisfaction, advocacy, and loyalty.</li><li>Prior experience in the enterprise and/or cloud software space.</li><li>Analytical mindset: monitor KPIs and behavioral trends to prioritize at-risk customers in a large portfolio.</li><li>Aptitude to pick up technology and become proficient in mapping customer’s business goals to Confluent’s features and functionalities.</li><li>Experience in managing timely renewals and forecasting for a large set of customers.</li><li>Excellent communication – create engaging email campaigns, provide best practices and deliver enablement to help deflect support tickets and facilitate success at scale.</li><li>Strong presentation skills, capable of explaining complex issues and solutions to a highly skilled and experienced audience.</li><li>Strong team player who can navigate complex stakeholder dynamics and ensure that the optimal business outcomes are achieved through the engaged resources.</li><li>Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-pressure, dynamic start-up environment.</li><li>Clear, consistent demonstration of self-starter behaviour and a desire to solve challenging technical and non-technical problems with minimal supervision.</li><li>Excellent Project management experience for effective internal stakeholder management, coordinating with various teams to ensure account success.</li><li>This is a hybrid work position.</li></ul>What Gives You an Edge:<ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>A minimum of 5 years of prior experience working in a technology company or related field.</li></ul><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

Account Manager - DACH Market

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:Are you passionate about making a difference in the Enterprise software space and would like to join an organisation where you can really make a difference? Are you a Customer Success Manager, who understands the transformational role that real-time data will play in driving business success? If so, we are seeking your talent as we are a growing Software organisation and value your voice.Confluent has not even scratched the surface of the market opportunity, we have a culture that aligns with the exceptional values of our company and we’ve won over 20 awards to evidence that, and the message we have for you is this; Companies are buying, we have a large untapped market where, with some hard work and a common goal, you have the opportunity to earn well, do a job you love and be something really special. A career within our collaborative organisation will present you with unique and endless possibilities and challenges; you will play a key role in driving Customer Success, renewals and subscription expansion within our Large Enterprise accounts. You will be a trusted advisor to our Enterprise customers, where you help them to fully utilise the Confluent platform.What You Will Do:<ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Own the ultimate success of our Enterprise customers in your territory, ensuring they realise the full value of the Confluent platform.</li><li>Own the consumption planning, use case mapping, IP adoption, and business value realisation of your customers.</li><li>Actively contribute to the Account Strategy set by the Account Director and Account Team you’ll be a part of aligned to the set business goals and objectives.</li><li>Meet/exceed quarterly renewal targets by proactively managing your customer portfolio and ensuring on-time customer retention.</li><li>Identify and collaborate with the sales team regarding expansion, up-sell, and additional service/support opportunities within accounts.</li><li>Coordinate the engagement of other Confluent resources (e.g. Customer Operations, Sales, etc.) to ensure ongoing customer success.</li><li>Promote the use of Confluent features and technology, Communicating ROI throughout the customer lifecycle to stakeholders of all levels</li><li>Maintain relationships with key users and decision makers at assigned customers, keeping them connected to value being added by our products.</li><li>Champion and advocate for Enterprise customer requirements within Confluent.</li><li>Proactively identify issues/risks and escalate internally for prompt resolution.</li><li>Act as the voice of the customer and collect feedback to drive continuous improvement across all areas including product.</li></ul>What You Will Bring:<ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>You have experience in a Customer Success capacity with a track record of increasing customer satisfaction, adoption, and retention.</li><li>Comfortable working with Enterprise organisations.</li><li>You are data driven in your decisions and assume full ownership and accountability for your work.</li><li>You are a team player who can navigate complex stakeholder dynamics and ensure that the optimal business outcomes are achieved through the engaged resources.</li><li>You are a great and thoughtful communicator and listener.</li><li>Salesforce and Tableau user fluency.</li><li>You'll have the ability to articulate, educate and advise the business value to businesses of all sizes</li><li>You have prior experience working in German, in the DACH market</li><li>You have prior experience or willingness to learn with data streaming or cloud software technologies.</li></ul><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

Customer Success Manager

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.<h2>About the Role:</h2>Confluent is searching for a Customer Success Technical Architect (CSTA) to act as a trusted technical advisor and advocate to work with our customers. The primary objective of this role is to ensure the success, retention &amp; expansion of our customers by providing technical guidance, including best practices, for the Confluent product suite. You will partner with others in Customer Solutions as well as cross-functional divisions such as Sales, Product Management and Engineering to help our customers accelerate time to value, maximize product consumption and achieve their overall business objectives.The CSTA role is both deeply technical and commercial in nature. You will leverage a technical background (e.g. AppDev, SysAdmin, Distributed Computing) to advise customers on their architectures, including patterns &amp; strategies for operating and maturing their Confluent subscription. You will also utilize relationship management skills &amp; industry experience to guide the customer on how they can best achieve their business goals and value-based outcomes via their Confluent investment.In this role, you will have the opportunity to build broad experience with Kafka, Flink and Confluent IP as well as gain an understanding of complementary and competitive technologies. You will work with a variety of organizations ranging from new start-ups to large enterprise customers. Throughout these interactions, you will build strong relationships, ensure exemplary delivery standards, and have a lot of fun helping our customers build state-of-the-art data streaming platforms! Locations: US Remote<h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Champion and advocate for the customer within Confluent. You will be the technical voice of the customer and will leverage learned technical insights &amp; perspective while coordinating between Confluent Sales, Product, Services, Support and Training teams to drive technical success.</li><li>Identify customer technical objections and develop strategies to address those blockers to adoption.</li><li>Proactively support customers through technical lifecycle activities such as architecture planning, cluster &amp; security design, monitoring &amp; automation; review &amp; provide guidance on upgrade or migration plans, platform &amp; application hardening ideas and high availability design.</li><li>Guide customers up the data streaming maturity curve through recommendations on advanced technical topics (e.g. data mesh, stream processing, utilization optimization &amp; performance tuning)</li><li>Develop and present periodic customer reviews, including analysis of technical health and operational performance, to Confluent senior management.</li><li>Document and transfer knowledge to customers and internal teams. This assists customers in advancing their knowledge &amp; abilities on their own, while also helping Technical Support Engineers and Professional Services teams better serve your customers.</li><li>Leverage knowledge of your customer environments and use cases to influence the roadmap of Confluent products.</li><li>When necessary, roll up your sleeves and dig in to help address customer issues alongside Confluent Technical Support Engineers and Core Engineering.</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Bachelor's degree in computer science or engineering, mathematics, or equivalent degree or experience</li><li>Demonstrated success in a technical Field role for a product / SaaS company with enterprise customers</li><li>Passion for working on complex technical problems, with a strong understanding of modern infrastructure and streaming technologies; self-starter who loves a fast-paced environment</li><li>Excellent interpersonal &amp; communication skills and an ability to concisely explain tricky issues and complex solutions to a variety of personas</li><li>Demonstrated ability to manage multiple customers at a time while paying strict attention to detail and delivering results across multiple initiatives such as driving expansion, customer satisfaction, feature adoption, and retention</li><li>Collaborative spirit, outstanding consulting &amp; relationship management skills and ability to rapidly switch context</li><li>Hands on knowledge of one or more key cloud vendors (AWS, GCP and Azure)</li><li>Solid understanding of cloud networking and security technologies (e.g. VPC, Private Link, Private Service Connect, TLS/SSL, SASL, Kerberos, etc.)</li><li>Experience prototyping and analyzing code for client solutions in multiple languages (e.g. Java, Python, Go, etc.)</li><li>Experience with Java Virtual Machine (JVM) tuning and troubleshooting</li><li>Experience with operating Linux, you know how to configure, tune and troubleshoot both RedHat &amp; Debian based distributions</li><li>Ability to learn new technologies quickly, as well as a strong interest in doing so!</li><li>Flexibility to travel up to 20% of the time</li></ul><h2>What Gives You an Edge:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Confluent Developer or Administrator certifications (<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.confluent.io/certification/">https://www.confluent.io/certification/</a>)</li><li>Experience with Apache Kafka &amp; Apache Flink</li><li>Experience helping customers build distributed systems or streaming solutions that use Apache Kafka alongside technologies such as Spark, Flink, Hadoop, Cassandra, etc</li></ul><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

Senior Customer Success Technical Architect

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.<h2>About the Role:</h2> Our Distinguished AI Strategist (DAIS) is an AI expert, experienced researcher or operator, and high-performing utility player who will investigate how data streaming can enable better business outcomes for AI-enabled applications. The DAIS will work with high agency and autonomy to develop a plan for how Confluent’s data streaming platform can enable our customers with AI-enabled applications by engaging with customers and studying the market landscape to educate and influence Confluent’s decision-makers. As our DAIS at Confluent, you will perform a technical yet cross-disciplinary role that involves the following key responsibilities:<h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Research: The DAIS will spend a significant portion of their time on high-impact, long-term research investigations that take one quarter or more. They will examine how data streaming can integrate with existing AI technologies, patterns, and practices to deliver better outcomes and faster time-to-market for our customers using Confluent to build real-time applications. This will inform both R&amp;D and GTM aspects of Confluent’s business.</li><li>Engage with the Market. Represent Confluent with C-level executives at prospects and customers, media, and analysts to showcase data streaming’s role in enabling AI. Support our Customer and Product Advisory Boards to ensure that our products, marketing, and field enablement are of the highest quality and relevance to the market.</li></ul><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Thought Leadership: Shape the industry thinking around Data Streaming applications in AI, focusing on Developers, Architects, CTOs, and Analysts through technical content and industry use cases demonstrating business value. Drive adoption of Confluent products by AI practitioners. Enable Confluent’s field to better connect with and serve our customers.</li><li>Data Streaming Advocacy: Establish credibility for Confluent as an enabling capability for AI-enabled applications by collaborating with our solutions engineering team to develop and promote relevant technical patterns and reference architectures.</li><li>Product Direction and Prototyping: Recommend notable changes in technology direction to Product/Engineering to integrate with existing AI technologies and workflows. Prototype early-stage ideas, explore the practicalities of different patterns, and formalize new implementation strategies. Contemplate new capabilities more than twelve months out from the current product roadmap.</li><li>Competition and Technology Trends: Track AI-related technology trends affecting Confluent’s trajectory, analyze competitive threats from a technology perspective and look for opportunities.</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Industry experience as a leader in either R&amp;D or GTM for enterprise SaaS companies, well-versed in commercializing AI-enabled technologies. Alternatively, come with strong experience as an AI researcher with a PhD in Computer Science (or similar) and relevant, top-tier peer-reviewed publications.</li><li>Ability to extract the important concepts and details from a complex technical domain, summarize, and articulate clearly and succinctly. Know when to dig deep.</li><li>Ability to confidently influence deals with Confluent’s C-level and C-level customers.</li><li>Experience creating novel content that reframes existing concepts in interesting ways.</li><li>Excellent writing style with the ability to clearly explain complex concepts.</li><li>Confident speaking style, spanning both technical and conceptual content.</li><li>Experience in operating autonomously, delivering high-quality tasks on time and with minimal supervision.</li><li>Proven software development or data science experience.</li><li>Broad understanding of the technology space in general, distributed systems, and business. Data streaming experience is considered a huge plus.</li></ul><h2></h2><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

Distinguished AI Strategist

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.<h2>About the Role:</h2>Solutions Engineers at Confluent drive not only the early-stage evaluation within the sales process, but also play a crucial role in enabling ongoing value-realization for customers, all while helping them move up the adoption maturity curve. In this role you’ll partner with Account Executives to be the key technical advisor in service of the customers. You’ll be instrumental in surfacing the customers’ stated or implicit Business Needs, and coming up with Technical Designs to best meet these needs. You may find yourself at times facilitating art of the possible discussions and storytelling to inspire customers in adopting new patterns with confidence, and at other times driving creative solutioning to help get past difficult technical roadblocks. Overall, we look upon Solutions Engineers to be a key cog within the Customer Success Team that help foster an environment of sustained success for the customer and incremental adoption of Confluent’s Technology.<h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Help advance new &amp; innovative Data Streaming use-cases from conception to Go-Live</li><li>Execute on and lead Technical Proofs of Concept</li><li>Conduct Discovery &amp; Whiteboard Sessions to develop new use-cases</li><li>Provide Thought Leadership by delivering Technical Talks and Workshops</li><li>Guide customers with hands-on help and best practice to drive operational maturity of their Confluent Deployment</li><li>Analyze Customer Consumption trends and identify Optimization opportunities</li><li>Work closely with Product and Engineering teams, and serve as a key Product advocate across the Customer, Partner and Industry ecosystem</li><li>Forge strong relationships with key customer stakeholders and serve as a dependable partner for them</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>5+ years of Solutions Engineering or similar work experience</li><li>Experience with Event-Driven architecture, Data Integration &amp; Processing Techniques, Database &amp; Data Warehouse technologies</li><li>First-Hand exposure to Cloud Architecture, Migrations, Deployment &amp; Application Development</li><li>Experience with Automation, GitOps and Kubernetes</li><li>Proficiency in Java, Python or SQL</li><li>Technical certifications - Cloud Developer/Architect, Data Engineering &amp; Integration</li><li>Clear, consistent demonstration of self-starter behavior, a desire to learn new things and tackle hard technical problems</li><li>Exceptional presentation and communications capabilities.</li><li>Confidence presenting to a highly skilled and experienced audience, ranging from developers to enterprise architects and up to C-level executives</li></ul><h2></h2><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

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.<h2>About the Role:</h2>As a member of the Confluent Sales Team, the Enterprise Account Executive is responsible for selling Confluent solutions to our National Accounts segment. We expect you to use your prospecting, sales, negotiation, and leadership skills to effectively sell Confluent offerings to leading companies to meet and exceed your quarterly sales target. You must possess a "consumption/growth" mentality with a proven track record of success within a value-driven sales model.<h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Responsible for driving revenue growth in our large, complex, and highly visible accounts. </li><li>Proactively prospect, identify, qualify, develop, and close a sales pipeline while continuing to grow consumption in current customer accounts.</li><li>Leading, driving, and executing a strategic complex sales cycle with responsibility for demonstrating the value of Confluent at C-Level. </li><li>Become an in-depth expert/SME of Confluent offerings, product suites, and competitive landscape. </li><li>Develop a deep understanding of your customers, their strategies, and business goals to become a trusted advisor. </li><li>Work closely with our partner ecosystem teams to sell to or through the ecosystem. </li><li>Align closely with our Solutions Engineering team on technical wins, Professional Services to deliver world-class customer experience, and Customer Success Management to identify and close expansion opportunities and renewals. </li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>8+ years of experience in quota-carrying sales roles in a competitive market with a focus on growing consumption within accounts/territory.</li><li>Prior experience in Big Data, Consumption, Cloud, SaaS, Open Source, or Enterprise IT Solutions.</li><li>Previous sales methodology training (i.e. MEDDPICC, Challenger, etc.).</li><li>Prior experience in leading and executing a highly complex sales strategy to increase and drive revenue growth.</li><li>Consistent track record of success and history of overachieving and hitting quota attainment.</li><li>Ability to articulate, educate, and sell the business value to businesses of all sizes. </li><li>Experience developing and improving processes and managing change within an organization. </li><li>Exceptional skills in relationship-building, customer relations, and negotiation skills.</li><li>Open to Travel to customer locations as needed.</li><li>BS/BA degree or equivalent preferred.</li></ul><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

Enterprise Account Executive, National Accounts

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.<h2>About the Role:</h2>Solutions Engineers at Confluent drive not only the early-stage evaluation within the sales process, but also play a crucial role in enabling ongoing value-realization for customers, all while helping them move up the adoption maturity curve. In this role you’ll partner with Account Executives to be the key technical advisor in service of the customer. You’ll be instrumental in surfacing the customers’ stated or implicit Business Needs, and coming up with Technical Designs to best meet these needs. You may find yourself at times facilitating art of the possible discussions and storytelling to inspire customers in adopting new patterns with confidence, and at other times driving creative solutioning to help get past difficult technical roadblocks. Overall, we look upon Solutions Engineers to be a key cog within the Customer Success Team that help foster an environment of sustained success for the customer and incremental adoption of Confluent’s Technology.<h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Help advance new &amp; innovative Data Streaming use-cases from conception to Go-Live</li><li>Execute on and lead Technical Proofs of Concept</li><li>Conduct Discovery &amp; Whiteboard Sessions to develop new use-cases</li><li>Provide Thought Leadership by delivering Technical Talks and Workshops</li><li>Guide customers with hands-on help and best practice to drive operational maturity of their Confluent Deployment</li><li>Analyze Customer Consumption trends and identify Optimization opportunities</li><li>Work closely with Product and Engineering teams, and serve as a key Product advocate across the Customer, Partner and Industry ecosystem</li><li>Forge strong relationships with key customer stakeholders and serve as a dependable partner for them</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>5+ years of Solutions Engineering or similar work experience</li><li>Experience with Event-Driven architecture, Data Integration &amp; Processing Techniques, Database &amp; Data Warehouse technologies</li><li>First-Hand exposure to Cloud Architecture, Migrations, Deployment &amp; Application Development</li><li>Experience with Automation, GitOps and Kubernetes</li><li>Hands-on experience with Apache Flink</li><li>Proficiency in Java, Python or SQL</li><li>Technical certifications - Cloud Developer/Architect, Data Engineering &amp; Integration</li><li>Clear, consistent demonstration of self-starter behavior, a desire to learn new things and tackle hard technical problems</li><li>Exceptional presentation and communications capabilities. Confidence presenting to a highly skilled and experienced audience, ranging from developers to enterprise architects and up to C-level executives</li></ul><h2>What Gives You an Edge:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Familiarity with Solution Selling</li><li>Experience building streaming applications using Flink</li><li>A challenger mindset and an ability to positively influence peoples’ opinions</li></ul><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

Senior Solutions Engineer - Flink (Remote, US/Canada)

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.<h2>About the Role:</h2>As part of our rapid growth, we're seeking an Inbound Sales Development Representative (SDR) Manager who excels in operational discipline and data-driven decisions, and has a deep passion for developing early-career sales talent. Your mission will be to cultivate an environment of collective achievement and fulfillment, with a strong focus on coaching and accountability. Your responsibilities will include optimizing our Inbound program to enhance lead conversions and efficiency, alongside driving initiatives that strengthen team cohesion.<h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Lead a team of Inbound SDRs responsible for qualifying inbound leads and converting them into productive meetings and pipeline for our sales team</li><li>Recruit, hire, train, motivate, and coach SDRs, with a strong emphasis on attracting and retaining top talent</li><li>Enhance each team member's knowledge and skills related to sales, our products, and the industry, fostering their professional growth</li><li>Identify and act on opportunities to improve processes and structures, thereby increasing efficiency. This will involve collaborative efforts across different departments and stakeholders to implement necessary changes</li><li>Monitor and ensure that the team achieves its monthly and quarterly targets</li><li>Ensure the effective use of Salesforce, sales engagement platforms, and chatbots</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>1+ years of experience managing sales development team in a SaaS company</li><li>1-3+ years experience in a closing, quota carrying role</li><li>Familiarity with or previously worked at a company in the Big Data/Open Source space</li><li>Proven track record of managing to core KPI’s</li><li>Success in overachieving quotas and targets</li><li>Ability to drive and manage cross-functional initiatives at scale</li><li>Excellent communication, teamwork and people management skills</li></ul><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

Manager, Sales Development Representative

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.<h2>About the Role:</h2>We’re looking for a passionate leader to drive our content strategy and create compelling, performant content across the entire customer journey—from awareness to advocacy. The right candidate takes an audience-first approach to ensuring prospects, customers, and partners get the most value from Confluent. It’s not simply about sharing a corporate message. Rather, it’s about connecting data practitioners and technical executives with the knowledge and skills they need to navigate the data streaming ecosystem and set their data in motion.<h2>What You Will Do:</h2>Content Strategy &amp; Corporate Narrative<ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Design global and regional content strategies that drive engagement and loyalty</li><li>Produce high-impact messaging, storylines, evergreen themes, thought leadership, and multimedia content that support global campaigns and field marketing</li><li>Orchestrate multi-channel content operations—from planning, production, distribution, and measurement to optimization</li><li>Ensure content is optimized for search and user experience across all channels</li></ul>Audience Engagement &amp; Growth<ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Set and achieve performance metrics for content engagement and channel growth</li><li>Manage a measurement framework that connects content to pipeline growth and product-led growth</li><li>Identify content opportunities and stay on top of market trends and changes through market research</li><li>Retain an “outsider’s perspective” much like that of a journalist</li></ul>Leadership, Collaboration &amp; Content Operations<ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Manage and direct a team of content marketers and writers to ensure the content meets the intended objectives</li><li>Communicate in ways that motivate the team and drive accountability</li><li>Foster professional growth and career development</li><li>Manage a centralized editorial calendar</li><li>Collaborate with cross-functional teams (PMM, customer marketing, product, design, video, etc.) to produce persuasive content</li><li>Partner across the company to ensure content reinforces key messages and has a consistent voice &amp; tone</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Passion for technology and ability to articulate complex technical concepts in ways that make sense to a range of personas with varying levels of technical expertise (experience with open-source technologies is a plus)</li><li>History of creating impactful content strategies that align with specific campaign narratives and goals</li><li>Outstanding writing and editing skills</li><li>Experience working on all types of content (ex: case studies, ebooks, promotional and instructional videos, blog posts, social media, emails, etc.)</li><li>Prior B2B experience in the IT/Tech industry</li><li>Familiarity with what motivates our key personas: developers, architects, operators, technical executives</li><li>A portfolio of content written for various tech buyer personas</li><li>Excellent communication skills that influence winning outcomes in a cross-functional environment</li><li>Ability to adapt and deliver results in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment</li><li>Curiosity and ability to transition from strategic thinking to creative execution</li><li>10+ years of related experience and a track record for building and leading exceptional content teams</li></ul><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

Director of Content Strategy & Operations

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.<h2>About the Role:</h2>As a member of the Confluent Sales Team, the Strategic Account Executive is responsible for selling Confluent solutions to our financial services segment. We expect you to use your prospecting, sales, negotiation, and leadership skills to effectively sell Confluent offerings to leading companies to meet and exceed your quarterly sales target. You must possess a "consumption/growth" mentality with a proven track record of success within a value-driven sales model.<h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Responsible for driving revenue growth in our large, complex, and highly visible accounts with the Financial Services sector.</li><li>Proactively prospect, identify, qualify, develop, and close a sales pipeline while continuing to grow consumption in current customer accounts.</li><li>Leading, driving, and executing a strategic complex sales cycle with responsibility for demonstrating the value of Confluent at C-Level. </li><li>Become an in-depth expert/SME of Confluent offerings, product suites, and competitive landscape. </li><li>Develop a deep understanding of your customers, their strategies, and business goals to become a trusted advisor. </li><li>Work closely with our partner ecosystem teams to sell to or through the ecosystem. </li><li>Align closely with our Solutions Engineering team on technical wins, Professional Services to deliver world-class customer experience, and Customer Success Management to identify and close expansion opportunities and renewals. </li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>12+ years of experience in quota-carrying sales roles in a competitive market with a focus on growing consumption within accounts/territory, ideallu with a focus on organizations in the financial services sector.</li><li>Prior experience in Big Data, Consumption, Cloud, SaaS, Open Source, or Enterprise IT Solutions.</li><li>Previous sales methodology training (i.e. MEDDPICC, Challenger, etc.).</li><li>Prior experience in leading and executing a highly complex sales strategy to increase and drive revenue growth.</li><li>Consistent track record of success and history of overachieving and hitting quota attainment.</li><li>Ability to articulate, educate, and sell the business value to businesses of all sizes. </li><li>Experience developing and improving processes and managing change within an organization. </li><li>Exceptional skills in relationship-building, customer relations, and negotiation skills.</li><li>Open to Travel to customer locations as needed.</li><li>BS/BA degree or equivalent preferred.</li></ul><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

Strategic Account Executive, Financial Services

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.<h2> About the Role:</h2>We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer II to architect, build, and operate services that are core to the company’s cloud infrastructure and product platforms. This is a hybrid engineering role, blending deep software development expertise with hands-on operational excellence.You will design highly scalable platform services (authentication, authorization, identity, secrets management, policy enforcement, security telemetry pipelines, etc.), while also ensuring these systems are reliable, observable, and resilient in production. You’ll work across engineering, security, compliance, and platform orgs to deliver secure-by-default building blocks that empower product teams to integrate security seamlessly.<h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Architect, design, and develop platform services with a strong focus on scalability, security, and developer experience.</li><li>Lead operational design for reliability: build comprehensive observability, monitoring, and incident response automation into security-critical services.</li><li>Build automation and tooling to drive self-healing systems, proactive risk detection, failure recovery, and continuous resilience testing.</li><li>Collaborate with compliance, governance, and risk teams to translate regulatory and policy requirements into scalable technical controls.</li><li>Lead technical design reviews, security architecture reviews, and incident postmortems for platform-level incidents.</li><li>Mentor engineers across multiple disciplines on both security and operational best practices.</li><li>Own end-to-end delivery of services: from initial design and development through deployment, production hardening, and lifecycle maintenance.</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>6+ years of experience in software engineering, SRE, or security engineering roles, with significant experience operating security platform services.</li><li>Strong backend software development experience (Go, Java, Rust, Python).</li><li>Expertise with distributed systems, cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure), Kubernetes, service mesh, and container orchestration.</li><li>Strong understanding of security domains: IAM, OAuth2, OIDC, PKI, secrets management, policy engines, audit pipelines, zero trust architecture.</li><li>Experience building highly reliable, observable, and resilient production systems.</li><li>Operational expertise: SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, on-call leadership, incident management.</li><li>Strong collaboration skills to drive alignment across engineering, security, and compliance stakeholders.</li><li>Excellent communication skills with ability to influence technical and business leaders.</li><li>BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience.</li></ul><h2>What Gives You an Edge:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Experience with SPIFFE/SPIRE, OPA/Gatekeeper, Envoy, Istio, and workload identity management.</li><li>Exposure to security compliance frameworks (FedRAMP).</li><li>Experience leading cross-org security platform architecture initiatives. </li></ul><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

Senior Software Engineer II - Platform Infrastructure

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.<h2>About the Role:</h2>At Confluent, we live by a core value: Earn Our Customers' Love. As a Customer Solutions Consultant (CSC), you'll be a vital partner to our customers, empowering them to unlock the full value of their investment in our cutting-edge streaming data platform.In this dynamic role, you'll manage a diverse portfolio of customers, from Mid-Market to Enterprise and Strategic accounts. You'll work hand-in-hand with teams across Customer Solutions, Sales, Product, and Engineering, driving activities that ensure technical health, product adoption, and demonstrable value realization. Your efforts will be critical in fostering customer growth and retention.This position is perfect for individuals who are passionate about technology, eager to solve complex business problems, and possess a strong customer-centric mindset. You'll deepen your technical expertise in Kafka, Flink, and Confluent IP, while leveraging your customer-facing skills in a high-growth environment. You'll collaborate with some of the world's most renowned companies, helping them achieve mission-critical outcomes. We're looking for curious, motivated professionals ready to accelerate their development and make a significant impact from day one.<h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Serve as a Trusted Technical Advisor: Build strong relationships with customers, becoming their go-to technical expert across your diverse portfolio. Proactively support customers through the technical lifecycle, including architecture planning, cluster and security design, monitoring, and automation.</li><li>Lead Post-Sale Engagements: Act as a primary technical contact post-sale, coordinating with internal teams to ensure successful outcomes. Guide customers in maturing their data streaming utilization and optimizing their usage through regular technical health reviews. Introduce new product capabilities via roadmap review sessions and plan for their adoption.</li><li>Drive Customer Success: Collaborate with support engineers to troubleshoot issues, identify root causes, and provide actionable insights for customers to take corrective action. Pinpoint technical objections and strategize to overcome adoption blockers. Identify potential risks and execute mitigation plans with internal stakeholders to prevent customer churn.</li><li>Develop Deep Technical Expertise: Cultivate an in-depth understanding of Confluent's technologies and the intricacies of building streaming applications to resolve complex customer challenges.</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Experience &amp; Technical Aptitude: 5-8 years of experience in Solutions Engineering, Software Development, Data Engineering, Data Architecture, Cloud Architecture, or similar roles. You'll have a passion for solving complex technical problems with a strong understanding of modern infrastructure and streaming technologies, thriving as a self-starter in a fast-paced environment.</li><li>Exceptional Communication: Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to concisely explain complex issues and solutions to a variety of technical and non-technical personas.</li><li>Customer Portfolio Management: Demonstrated ability to manage a large customer portfolio, paying strict attention to detail and delivering results across multiple initiatives like driving expansion, customer satisfaction, feature adoption, and retention.</li><li>Cloud &amp; Networking Expertise: Experience with cloud and on-premises architectures, along with a solid understanding of cloud networking and security technologies (e.g., VPC, Private Link, Private Service Connect, TLS/SSL, SASL, Kerberos).</li><li>Distributed Systems Knowledge: Experience with distributed systems and infrastructure software such as databases, message queues, Kubernetes, serverless technologies, and/or Big Data products, including developing ETL applications.</li><li>Development &amp; Automation: Experience with software development tools, configuration management, infrastructure automation, and CI/CD tooling (e.g., Terraform, Ansible) is a plus.</li><li>Programming Flexibility: Development language agnostic, with proficiency in Java, Python, or SQL.</li><li>Customer-Centric Mindset: A strong customer-centric approach, understanding the customer journey framework and the ability to prescribe ideal outcomes, guiding customers along their path to success.</li><li>Project Management Skills: Proven project management experience for effective internal stakeholder management, coordinating with various teams to ensure overall account success.</li></ul><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

Advisory Customer Solutions Consultant

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.<h2>About the Role:</h2>As an Order Management Analyst, you will be part of the Revenue Accounting team supporting transactional activities for global order processing. This position works closely with Sales, Operations, and Legal in the processing of the Company’s orders, which primarily include Subscription Services, Cloud Services, Professional Services, and Training. The Order Management Analyst will be responsible for the organization, fulfillment, booking, and documentation of all transactions and ensuring compliance with all Company and business policies. In this role, you will be a key contributor in driving operational excellence for the Company.<h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Process and manage orders in Salesforce in accordance with executed contracts and ensuring successful integration into NetSuite for billing</li><li>Review and validate order documents (order forms, contracts, purchase orders, approval docs etc.) for completeness and accuracy</li><li>Drive business process improvements and initiatives; support best practice efforts in the Quote to Cash and Revenue processes</li><li>Anticipate problems and initiate actions to ensure customer orders are processed timely and efficiently and participate in UAT testing for system enhancements</li><li>Work closely with Deal Desk and Sales teams to assist in reconfigurations and upgrade opportunities</li><li>Maintain accuracy of transactions to ensure consistent integrity in financial reporting and conduct monthly reconciliations and other oversight/audit activity to monitor compliance with our revenue compliance booking requirements using Excel and SFDC</li><li>Support increased workload and additional hours when required i.e. month-end/quarter-end periods</li><li>Collaborate cross-functionally to resolve order issues and support ad-hoc assignments as required</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>4+ years related experience, preferably in an Enterprise Software or SaaS environment</li><li>Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration or related field preferred</li><li>Experience with NetSuite and Salesforce</li><li>Proficiency in Microsoft Excel is required, with a preference for experience handling large data sets and reporting is an added advantage</li><li>Strong business acumen and understanding of sales process (forecasting, bookings, revenue)</li></ul><h2>What Gives You an Edge:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Understanding of renewal processes, including forecasting, renewal due dates, and renewal baselines, is a plus</li><li>Strong understanding of end to end order to cash process will be an added advantage</li></ul><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

Order Management Analyst

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.<h2>About the Role:</h2>Backend engineers at Confluent work on a set of diverse and complex challenges such as building foundational cloud frameworks and services that power all components of the platform in the Cloud. We are building a new multi-tenant, multi-cloud, polyglot, cloud native compute substrate to enable new business opportunities across Confluent Cloud (including Connect, Apache Flink, Kafka and more) . As a senior software engineer, you think strategically and you help drive end-to-end technical delivery from customer experience to scaling internal operations. You are not confined to the status quo and you leverage your expertise in Cloud-native, large-scale distributed systems to help take our platform to the next level. You worry about key operational aspects (availability, reliability, performance, monitoring, emergency response, capacity planning, disaster recovery) of our new Compute Platform, and you make sure that we have a highly-available, resilient and secure offering that our largest customers can rely on.<h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Build mission-critical backend services that deliver value to our customers. You will play a crucial role in architecting, designing, developing and operationalizing high performance, scalable, reliable and resilient services</li><li>Troubleshoot and debug technical issues inside a deep and complex technical stack that includes microservices, containers, and virtualization</li><li>Ensure operational readiness of the services and meet the availability and performance SLA commitments to our customers</li><li>A strategic engineer who constantly thinks of process and operational improvements</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>3+ years industry experience designing, building, scaling and supporting backend systems in production with a solid grasp on good software engineering practices such as code reviews, deep focus on quality, and documentation.</li><li>Strong programming and algorithmic skills. Proficiency in a major programming language.</li><li>Experience configuring and deploying distributed systems and microservices using modern tools, e.g. Kubernetes, Helm, etc.</li><li>Strong focus on project delivery and communication skills.</li><li>Experience in driving operational excellence for large, production services.</li><li>A strong sense of customer centricity, teamwork, technical leadership and mentorship and are excited about team and company success.</li><li>BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience.</li></ul><h2>What Gives You an Edge:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Proven track record of delivering large-scale, highly available, low latency, high quality systems.</li><li>Hands-on technical expertise in large scale systems engineering or distributed systems.</li></ul><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

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.<h2>About the Role:</h2>As a member of the Confluent Sales Team, the Enterprise Account Executive is responsible for selling Confluent solutions in the Egypt &amp; Kuwait territory. We expect you to use your prospecting, sales, negotiation, and leadership skills to effectively sell Confluent offerings to leading companies to meet and exceed your quarterly sales target. You must possess a "consumption/growth" mentality with a proven track record of success within a value-driven sales model.<h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Responsible for driving revenue growth in our large, complex, and highly visible accounts. </li><li>Proactively prospect, identify, qualify, develop, and close a sales pipeline while continuing to grow consumption in current customer accounts.</li><li>Leading, driving, and executing a strategic complex sales cycle with responsibility for demonstrating the value of Confluent at C-Level. </li><li>Become an in-depth expert/SME of Confluent offerings, product suites, and competitive landscape. </li><li>Develop a deep understanding of your customers, their strategies, and business goals to become a trusted advisor. </li><li>Work closely with our partner ecosystem teams to sell to or through the ecosystem. </li><li>Align closely with our Solutions Engineering team on technical wins, Professional Services to deliver world-class customer experience, and Customer Success Management to identify and close expansion opportunities and renewals.</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>6+ years of experience in quota-carrying sales roles in a competitive market with a focus on growing consumption within accounts/territory.</li><li>Prior experience in Big Data, Consumption, Cloud, SaaS, Open Source, or Enterprise IT Solutions.</li><li>Previous sales methodology training (i.e. MEDDPICC, Challenger, etc.).</li><li>Prior experience in leading and executing a highly complex sales strategy to increase and drive revenue growth.</li><li>Consistent track record of success and history of overachieving and hitting quota attainment.</li><li>Ability to articulate, educate, and sell the business value to businesses of all sizes. </li><li>Experience developing and improving processes and managing change within an organization. </li><li>Exceptional skills in relationship-building, customer relations, and negotiation skills.</li><li>Open to Travel to customer locations as needed.</li><li>BS/BA degree or equivalent preferred. </li></ul><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

Account Executive - Egypt & Kuwait

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.<h2>About the Role:</h2>We're looking for an Sales Development Representative (SDR) who will assist our Enterprise field sales team in finding and developing qualified opportunities. Weâre looking for a hunter who has a track record of success and possesses polished phone and writing skills. The Sales Development Representative understands and enjoys cutting-edge enterprise technology, prospecting, learning, and ultimately wants to establish a career in sales. This role has the opportunity to grow into a full sales position in the future and has a well established internal promotion track. Our office is located in Bangalore and you will normally be required to work from the office daily. Currently the team is operating remotely so must have the ability to work independently from the office. As a Sales Development Representative, you will be responsible for identifying and qualifying sales opportunities for the Confluent sales team. This position lays the foundation for a successful high tech sales career. There is a clear career growth path within Confluent for the right candidate that is willing to learn, work hard, and succeed.<h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Execute established best practices and committed engagement cadences on time and on message, using salesloft, Salesforce, Drift and other tools within SLA</li><li>Learn, leverage and help evolve our demand generation process</li><li>Participate in regular training &amp; informational sessions</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Ability to prospect into Enterprise level accounts using a variety of tactics including phone calls, personalised emails and a suite of sales tools.</li><li>Previous experience either as an SDR/BDR or in a closing role.</li><li>Collaboration closely with Field Marketing on campaigns and ensure you are using the correct messaging/talk-tracks effectively</li><li>Track record running both outbound pipeline generation as well as inbound follow-up of leads</li><li>Meet/exceed quarterly qualified leads quota to ensure territory revenue objectives</li><li>Experience with Salesforce and Salesloft preferable</li><li>Experience at prospecting in markets like ANZ, PH, VN, MY etc</li></ul><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

Sales Development Representative

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.<h2>About the Role:</h2>We're a team at Confluent Solutions Engineering that supports both the broader Confluent Solutions Engineering community and Confluent customers throughout their journey. Our mission is to amplify the capabilities of Solutions Engineering teams through technical prowess and consultative skills, playing a pivotal role in the entire customer journey<h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Technical advisor to Confluent customers as you undertake technical design and development of their end-to-end solution, be conversant with the current state and future roadmap of Kafka in open source, and be able to identify known issues and inform them of upcoming fixes or workarounds.</li></ul><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Deep Expertise Development: Cultivate an in-depth understanding of Confluent’s technologies and the intricacies of building streaming applications in order to resolve complex customer issues.</li><li>POC/Pilot Solutions: Aid customers in overcoming technical challenges during use case deployment and where appropriate partner with Confluent Stakeholders(Engineering, Product, Support) to eliminate the technical roadblocks.</li><li>Technical Demos and Workshops: Collaborate with Confluent's Account Executives (AEs) to craft and deliver solution-oriented demos and workshops that go beyond the standard to drive expansion use cases.</li><li>Customer Engagement: Offer technical assistance in driving customer consumption through monthly customer health reports, Quarterly Business Reviews, and Quarterly Technical Reviews.</li><li>Knowledge Sharing, Workshops, and Training: Leading the effort with cross-functional teams, including Field Marketing, Partner Solutions by conducting training sessions and workshops/webinars for customers, partners, prospects, and internal teams to educate them on Confluent's platform/cloud, features, and best practices.</li><li>Technical Artifact Creation and Maintenance: Architect, build, and maintain reusable artifacts, including tools, prototypes, demos, workshops, and architecture blueprints.</li><li>Act a technical evangelist - Driving technical up-skilling in the team, socializing new product/feature awareness, lead tech initiatives, partner with cross-functional teams within Confluent to identify synergies and collaborate to maximize customer impact.</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>4-7 years of experience in Solutions Engineering, Software Development, Data Engineering, Data Architect, Cloud Architect or similar roles</li><li>Strong hands-on knowledge in building solutions with Apache Kafka &amp; Flink</li><li>Experience with cloud architecture, onprem architecture</li><li>Experience with distributed systems, infrastructure software like databases, message queues, Kubernetes, serverless and/or Big Data products, developing ETL applications.</li><li>Experience of working with Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and/or Software as a Service (SaaS)</li><li>Experience with software development tools, configuration management, infrastructure automation, and CI/CD tooling(e.g., Terraform, Ansible) is a plus.</li><li>Development language agnostic, and proficiency on Java or, Python or SQL</li><li>Exceptional presentation and communications capabilities. Confidence presenting to a highly skilled and experienced audience, including enterprise architects and C-level executives</li><li>Clear, consistent demonstration of self-starter behavior and a desire to tackle hard technical problems</li><li>Bachelor’s level degree in Computer Science or relevant experience </li></ul><h2>What Gives You an Edge:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Knowledge about building and operating large-scale massively parallel systems.</li><li>Development or operations experience in a cloud-based environment.</li><li>Experience with DevOps culture and Agile software development.</li><li>AWS Solutions Architect Associate or equivalent in other cloud providers and Confluent Certifications.</li></ul><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

Advisory Solutions Engineer

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.<h2>About the Role:</h2>As a member of the Confluent Sales Team, the Enterprise Account Executive is responsible for selling Confluent solutions to the Public Sector customers in the UAE. We expect you to use your prospecting, sales, negotiation, and leadership skills to effectively sell Confluent offerings to leading companies to meet and exceed your quarterly sales target. You must possess a "consumption/growth" mentality with a proven track record of success within a value-driven sales model.<h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Responsible for driving revenue growth in our large, complex, and highly visible accounts. </li><li>Proactively prospect, identify, qualify, develop, and close a sales pipeline while continuing to grow consumption in current customer accounts.</li><li>Leading, driving, and executing a strategic complex sales cycle with responsibility for demonstrating the value of Confluent at C-Level. </li><li>Become an in-depth expert/SME of Confluent offerings, product suites, and competitive landscape. </li><li>Develop a deep understanding of your customers, their strategies, and business goals to become a trusted advisor. </li><li>Work closely with our partner ecosystem teams to sell to or through the ecosystem. </li><li>Align closely with our Solutions Engineering team on technical wins, Professional Services to deliver world-class customer experience, and Customer Success Management to identify and close expansion opportunities and renewals.</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>8+ years of experience in quota-carrying sales roles in a competitive market with a focus on growing consumption within accounts/territory.</li><li>Prior experience in Big Data, Consumption, Cloud, SaaS, Open Source, or Enterprise IT Solutions.</li><li>Previous sales methodology training (i.e. MEDDPICC, Challenger, etc.).</li><li>Prior experience in leading and executing a highly complex sales strategy to increase and drive revenue growth.</li><li>Consistent track record of success and history of overachieving and hitting quota attainment.</li><li>Ability to articulate, educate, and sell the business value to businesses of all sizes. </li><li>Experience developing and improving processes and managing change within an organization. </li><li>Exceptional skills in relationship-building, customer relations, and negotiation skills.</li><li>Open to Travel to customer locations as needed.</li><li>BS/BA degree or equivalent preferred. </li></ul><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

Enterprise Account Executive - Public Sector (UAE)

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.<h2>About the Role:</h2>As a member of the Confluent Sales Team, the Enterprise Account Executive is responsible for selling Confluent solutions to the GCC in the BFSI and Telco sectors. We expect you to use your prospecting, sales, negotiation, and leadership skills to effectively sell Confluent offerings to leading companies to meet and exceed your quarterly sales target. You must possess a "consumption/growth" mentality with a proven track record of success within a value-driven sales model.<h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Responsible for driving revenue growth in our large, complex, and highly visible accounts. </li><li>Proactively prospect, identify, qualify, develop, and close a sales pipeline while continuing to grow consumption in current customer accounts.</li><li>Leading, driving, and executing a strategic complex sales cycle with responsibility for demonstrating the value of Confluent at C-Level. </li><li>Become an in-depth expert/SME of Confluent offerings, product suites, and competitive landscape. </li><li>Develop a deep understanding of your customers, their strategies, and business goals to become a trusted advisor. </li><li>Work closely with our partner ecosystem teams to sell to or through the ecosystem. </li><li>Align closely with our Solutions Engineering team on technical wins, Professional Services to deliver world-class customer experience, and Customer Success Management to identify and close expansion opportunities and renewals.</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>8+ years of experience in quota-carrying sales roles in a competitive market with a focus on growing consumption within accounts/territory.</li><li>Prior experience in Big Data, Consumption, Cloud, SaaS, Open Source, or Enterprise IT Solutions.</li><li>Previous sales methodology training (i.e. MEDDPICC, Challenger, etc.).</li><li>Prior experience in leading and executing a highly complex sales strategy to increase and drive revenue growth.</li><li>Consistent track record of success and history of overachieving and hitting quota attainment.</li><li>Ability to articulate, educate, and sell the business value to businesses of all sizes. </li><li>Experience developing and improving processes and managing change within an organization. </li><li>Exceptional skills in relationship-building, customer relations, and negotiation skills.</li><li>Open to Travel to customer locations as needed.</li><li>BS/BA degree or equivalent preferred. </li></ul><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

Enterprise Account Executive - BFSI & Telco

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.<h2>About the Role:</h2>We are seeking a dynamic Senior Product Marketing Manager (PMM) to focus on our strategic partnership with Infosys and our first-ever Business Group agreement. In this role, you will collaborate closely with the Business Development, and Sales teams to create and execute joint messaging, positioning, and go-to-market strategies that highlight the unique value of our solutions in partnership with Infosys.To be a successful candidate you will have a proven track record in Product Marketing for high-tech companies, with demonstrated ability to link technical products and features to customer pain points and translate them into business value. You should have experience working with Global System Integrators (GSIs), creating and executing joint marketing strategies, launch plans, and tactics. You should have exceptional leadership skills to drive execution of cross-functional efforts, an ability to understand market drivers, target audiences, and competitive landscape. You also should have excellent communication skills, capable of writing and presenting about the product, both to internal and external audiences, in a way that influences the desired behavior.<h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Strategic Messaging &amp; Content: Craft and own compelling messaging and positioning that communicates the value of our solutions in collaboration with Infosys. Develop high-quality content for internal and external stakeholders to support integrated marketing campaigns, product launches, and events.</li><li>Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with Sales, BD, and Marketing teams to plan and execute marketing activities for both internal and external audiences. Drive initiatives such as funnel growth, web optimization, campaigns, and events in collaboration with these teams.</li><li>Partnership Growth: Influence the development and execution of go-to-market strategies, in collaboration with the Infosys Global Business Group Sales team and your peers at Infosys. Ensure alignment with Infosys’ business objectives and our product offerings. Support partnership product and solution launches.</li><li>Market Insight &amp; Strategy: Engage with customers and partners to gather insights, refine messaging, and perfect your strategy. Benchmark and assess the impact of your efforts against key business metrics, staying attuned to market drivers, target audiences, and the competitive landscape.</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>5+ years of experience in product marketing roles within enterprise software, particularly in SaaS/Cloud environments.</li><li>Proven ability to develop value-oriented messaging, create engaging content, and simplify technical content for enterprise audiences.</li><li>Strong track record of collaborating with GSIs and OEMs, navigating complex business environments.</li><li>Technical foundation with the ability to understand and communicate product concepts effectively.</li><li>Data-driven mindset with experience using marketing metrics to guide strategy and demonstrate ROI.</li><li>Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with cross-functional stakeholders.</li><li>MBA or equivalent experience; Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field preferred.</li></ul><h2>What Gives You an Edge:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Prior experience collaborating with Infosys.</li><li>Demonstrated experience in partner marketing, including developing joint marketing programs, co-branded assets, and enablement materials.</li></ul><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

Sr. PMM- GSI

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.<h2>About the Role:</h2>Cloud Infrastructure &amp; Platform's primary focus is to build the foundations that power product innovation and customer adoption in the areas of Product Security, Networking, Observability, Compute Platform, Control Plane, Developer Productivity, Cloud Architecture &amp; Reliability<ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Compute Platform</li><li>Global &amp; Regional Control Plane</li><li>Cloud Infrastructure Automation</li><li>Security Platform</li></ul><h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>To design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve software that will touch production and have a customer-facing impact.</li><li>Follow best practices for software development and participate in code reviews.</li><li>Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.</li><li>Help build the next generation Kafka by continuing to push the boundaries of distributed system design.</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Recent Graduate (May 2024- December 2025) BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience</li><li>Self-motivated and able to drive projects with mentorship and project requirements</li><li>Ability to work effectively in teams and strong verbal and written communication skills</li><li>Good knowledge of data structures and algorithms and are proficient in at least one of these languages: Java/Scala, C, C++, GoSmart, humble, and empathetic</li><li>Driven and excited about the challenges of a fast-paced, innovative, and quickly growing software development environment</li><li>Interested in building large-scale distributed systems in the cloud and are excited to make an impact</li></ul><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

CIP Software Engineer

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.<h2>About the Role:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>At Confluent, one of our core values is to ‘Earn Our Customers’ Love’. As an Account Manager, you will be a key partner to our customers, helping them unlock the full value of their investment in our platform.</li><li>In this role, you’ll own a portfolio of customers, working closely with internal and customer stakeholders to understand their goals, use cases, and challenges. You’ll design and drive tailored success and implementation plans that anchor engagement &amp; accelerate adoption, ensure high retention and support customers as their use of the platform matures and scales.</li><li>This is an ideal opportunity for someone who loves technology but equally enjoys solving business problems for customers, identifying new opportunities to expand customer value.</li><li>You will play a key role in driving Customer Success, renewals and subscription expansion through proactive identification of new and upsell opportunities.</li><li>This role is ideally suited for individuals with an existing background in Account Management or in Sales.</li></ul><h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Act as a Trusted Business Partner: foster strong relationships with customers by establishing yourself as their go-to advisor. Help them adopt and expand their use of Confluent to drive real business value.</li><li>Own the ultimate success of our customers in your territory, ensuring they realize the full value of the Confluent platform including new ways to grow their usage and investment.</li><li>Own the consumption planning, use case mapping, IP adoption, and business value realization of your book of business.</li><li>Design and execute the Account Strategy and Success Plan on the whole portfolio of customers, with a clear focus on both retention and growth.</li><li>Meet/exceed quarterly renewal targets by proactively managing your customer portfolio and ensuring on-time customer retention, while driving new cloud consumption.</li><li>Coordinate the engagement of other Confluent resources (e.g. Customer Solutions Consultants, Product Managers, Support, Legal, etc.) to ensure ongoing customer success and to support the sales cycle for new opportunities.</li><li>Promote the use of Confluent features and technology, communicating ROI throughout the customer lifecycle to stakeholders of all levels and presenting new solutions that address evolving customer needs.</li><li>Build and maintain strong relationships with key users and decision makers at assigned customers, keeping them connected to technical and business value being added by our platform of solutions.</li><li>Proactively identify issues/risks and escalate internally for prompt resolution.</li><li>Act as the voice of the customer and collect feedback to drive continuous improvement across all areas including product and translate feedback into potential new product or feature opportunities.</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Previous experience (at least 6 years) in either Sales, Customer Success or Account Management, with a proven track record of revenue growth and/or supporting customer adoption and value realization.</li><li>Proven track record of supporting a high volume of accounts to deliver high customer satisfaction, advocacy, and loyalty.</li><li>Prior experience in the enterprise and/or cloud software space with an understanding of sales cycles.</li><li>Analytical mindset: monitor KPIs and behavioral trends to prioritize at-risk customers in a large portfolio.</li><li>Aptitude to pick up technology and become proficient in mapping customer’s business goals to Confluent’s features and functionality.</li><li>Experience in managing timely renewals, including forecasting renewals and new expansion opportunities within an account.</li><li>Strong presentation skills, capable of explaining complex issues and solutions to a highly skilled and experienced audience.</li><li>Strong team player who can navigate complex stakeholder dynamics and ensure that the optimal business outcomes are achieved through the engaged resources.</li><li>Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-pressure, dynamic environment focused on achieving sales targets.</li><li>Clear, consistent demonstration of self-starter behaviour and a desire to solve challenging technical and non-technical problems with minimal supervision.</li><li>Excellent Project management experience for effective internal stakeholder management, coordinating with various teams to ensure account success.</li><li>This is a remote work position.</li></ul><h2>What Gives You an Edge:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>A minimum of 5 years of prior experience working in a technology company or related field. </li></ul><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

Customer Success Account Manager

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.<h2>About the Role:</h2>Our team is responsible for managing the metadata that makes Kafka a reliable, fault-tolerant, and high-performance distributed streaming platform. This includes coordinating the election of leaders, monitoring broker availability, persisting and distributing metadata, coordinating cluster-wide actions, and more. In this role, you will be working on building a highly available, reliable, secure, scalable, and multi-tenant metadata layer. You will be instrumental in driving the technical solutions end-to-end, working closely with the team and key stakeholders to design, architect, and develop top-notch solutions. The team recently completed a major initiative to implement its own consensus protocol based on the Raft protocol. This new protocol, named Kraft, has allowed the team to remove the dependency on Zookeeper which allows for more scalable and robust metadata management as well as a more simple deployment model for Kafka. Here are examples of some of the challenges we've taken on in recent years: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol16/p3822-povzner.pdf">Kora: A Cloud-Native Event Streaming Platform For Kafka </a><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://developer.confluent.io/learn/kraft/">KRaft: Apache Kafka Without ZooKeeper </a><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.confluent.io/blog/why-replace-zookeeper-with-kafka-raft-the-log-of-all-logs/">Why ZooKeeper Was Replaced with KRaft – The Log of All Logs </a><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-866+ZooKeeper+to+KRaft+Migration">KIP-866: ZooKeeper to KRaft Migration </a><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-853%3A+KRaft+Controller+Membership+Changes">KIP-853: KRaft Controller Membership Changes</a><h2>What You Will Do:</h2>As a Staff Software Engineer, you will be a technical leader whose work significantly impacts the product, engineering organization, and customer success.<ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Drive the end-to-end delivery of complex, multi-quarter technical projects and critical infrastructure components from concept to production, setting a high bar for operational excellence, scalability, reliability, and security.</li><li>Act as a primary technical escalation point for complex, elusive production issues and architectural challenges. Proactively identify systemic weaknesses and drive large-scale refactoring or architectural changes to prevent future recurrence.</li><li>Exert influence across multiple teams and organizational boundaries (e.g., product, support, engineering) to align technical direction, mitigate cross-cutting risks, and ensure cohesive, high-quality solution delivery.</li><li>Serve as a technical voice of the customer, anticipating future needs and translating ambiguous, high-level business problems into clear, executable technical strategies and architectures that drive significant customer value and product adoption.</li><li>Act as a force multiplier by actively mentoring and coaching engineers and elevating the overall technical acumen and best practices across the organization.</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience.</li><li>8+ years of progressive experience in designing, building, and operating large-scale, mission-critical distributed systems (or equivalent expertise).</li><li>Deep, expert-level understanding of distributed systems fundamentals, including consensus protocols (e.g., Raft/Paxos), consistency models (e.g., strong, eventual), fault-tolerance, and high-availability architecture.</li><li>Experience building and operating large-scale systems in the Cloud.</li><li>Solid understanding of basic systems operations (disk, network, operating systems, etc.).</li><li>Demonstrated history of mentoring engineers and driving significant improvement in engineering practices and operational rigor across multiple teams.</li><li>Proficiency in Java, Scala, C/C++, Go or other statically typed languages.</li></ul><h2>What Gives You an Edge:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Expert-level proficiency in Java and the JVM ecosystem, including threading, performance tuning, and diagnostics.</li><li>Hands-on experience with consensus algorithms (Raft, Paxos, etc.), or experience operating large-scale coordination services (ZooKeeper, etcd, Consul).</li><li>A strong background in distributed storage systems or databases.</li><li>Experience/knowledge with public clouds (AWS, Azure or GCP).</li><li>Interest in evangelism (giving talks at tech conferences, writing blog posts evangelizing Kafka).</li></ul><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

Staff Software Engineer - Kora Orchestration

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 team:<ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>The Monetization Platform team sits at the heart of Confluent’s business strategy, enabling the company to grow by monetizing products and features across Confluent Cloud - a fully managed multi-cloud solution. Our mission is to build a flexible, accurate, performant, and robust monetization platform responsible for supporting flexible pricing and payments, on-demand bill generation, etc. allowing Confluent to define and sell products globally.</li><li>In this role, you will build accurate, reliable, scalable, and functionally rich systems in the cloud to support usage-based billing and pricing in the cloud that powers Confluentâs revenue across all products and global markets. You will get an opportunity to work on business-critical flows from ideation to completion by closely collaborating with Product Managers, different engineering and business teams.</li></ul>If You Are:<ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Smart, humble, and empathetic</li><li>Have a strong sense of teamwork and put teamâs and company's interests first</li><li>Driven and excited about the challenges of a fast-paced, innovative software startup environment</li><li>A hands-on engineer who enjoys working with loosely coupled distributed systems</li><li>Self-driven and highly motivated to deliver a high-quality solution with accuracy</li><li>Able to work in an agile environment and adapt to changing business requirements</li><li>Believe in test-driven development</li><li>Excited about learning and adapting to emerging new technologies</li><li>Enjoy and take pride in working on projects to successful completion involving different technologies and systems</li><li>Have a high bar when working with production systems</li></ul>What We're Looking For:<ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>At least 8 years of relevant experience</li><li>Experience in architecting, designing, and developing highly scalable and performant backend services</li><li>Proficiency in a major programming language e.g.Go,Java, C / C++, etc.</li><li>Experience of working on Kubernetes, Public Clouds - AWS, GCP, &amp; Azure</li><li>Familiarity with Kafka, Streaming, SaaS platform development</li><li>Deep knowledge of designing distributed systems in the Cloud</li><li>Experience in running production services in Public Clouds, with a drive towards quality, accuracy, and operational excellence</li><li>Strong problem-solving and analytical/critical thinking skills with attention to details</li><li>A strategic engineer who constantly thinks of operational improvements of the service to meet availability and performance SLA</li><li>Comfortable with troubleshooting technical issues across services and multi-level technical stacks that includes microservices, containers, and virtualization</li><li>Bachelors or Master's degree in Computer Science, like discipline, or commensurate work experience</li></ul><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

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.<h2>About the Role:</h2>Confluent is seeking a strategic and experienced Director of Global Real Estate &amp; Workplace to lead the team responsible for shaping our physical and cultural office environments. In this critical role, you will oversee our entire global real estate portfolio, drive our workplace experience and community strategy, and lead the charge on transformational projects, including the buildout of our new U.S. headquarters.This is a highly visible position that requires a blend of strategic planning, financial acumen, and hands-on operational excellence. You will be instrumental in creating inspiring, functional, and scalable spaces that reflect our culture and support our dynamic workforce. This is a hybrid role with an expectation to be in our HQ office 2 days per week and as needed for other meetings and events.<h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Global Portfolio Management: Take full ownership of Confluent's current global real estate portfolio, including lease negotiations, site selection, and strategic planning to support our business objectives.</li><li>Headquarters Project Leadership: Lead the end-to-end delivery of our new U.S. headquarters, from design and construction to budget management and final move-in, creating a flagship space that embodies our brand and vision.</li><li>Workplace Strategy &amp; Operations: Oversee our on-demand and hybrid workspace model, ensuring our spaces are equipped to foster collaboration, productivity, and a seamless employee experience.</li><li>Facilities &amp; Operational Support: Provide best-in-class operational support for all global sites, managing facilities, health and safety protocols, physical security, and day-to-day office services.</li><li>Community &amp; Culture: Champion a vibrant and inclusive workplace community by providing strategic oversight and support for our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), Local Experience Ambassadors, and other culture-building initiatives.</li><li>Team Leadership: Lead and mentor a high-performing workplace team, fostering a culture of excellence, innovation, and customer service.</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Proven experience (10+ years) in corporate real estate, workplace services, and facilities management, preferably within a high-growth technology company.</li><li>Demonstrated success in leading large-scale construction and office buildout projects from conception to completion.</li><li>Deep understanding of lease administration, real estate finance, and portfolio strategy.</li><li>Experience designing and managing flexible and hybrid workplace programs.</li><li>Strong leadership skills with the ability to manage global cross-functional teams and external vendors.</li><li>Excellent communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management abilities.</li><li>A passion for building community and fostering an inclusive and engaging corporate culture.</li><li>Bachelor’s degree in Real Estate, Business Administration, Finance, or a related field.</li></ul><h2></h2><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

Director, Global Real Estate & Workplace

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.<h2>About the Role:</h2>Marketing Strategy and Insights is a team of analysts within the Marketing Operations organization at Confluent. This team serves as internal analytical consultants to all parts of the Marketing organization, focusing on delivering targeted insights into key components of the marketing engine including website conversion analytics, digital and in-person marketing campaign performance, marketing pipeline attribution and ROI, Product Led Growth analytics, lead scoring, lead management, and more.<h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Focus on website, paid media, and email analytics.</li><li>Work closely with colleagues across Confluent including Web, Paid Media, Email, Marketing Operations, Data Science, Field Marketing, Finance, and more to drive the execution of strategic or tactical recommendations</li><li>You’ll apply your analytical and strategic skillset to help optimize the effectiveness of Confluent’s website and digital channels as conversion engines for our business, focusing on:<ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Performance reports, dashboards, and optimization</li><li>Experimentation analyses and consultation</li><li>Web event and digital channel tracking and reporting data</li><li>Web, Paid, and Email forecasting</li><li>Exploratory analyses, working with Data Science on classification or predictive models</li></ul></li><li>Be proactive in identifying opportunities for improvement within your area of ownership, scope and prioritize projects, and spearhead the execution of analytically-driven recommendations in support of key business objectives</li><li>Analyze digital channel impacts on KPIs like pipeline generation, customer acquisition, product led growth, and consumption growth to recommend optimization strategies</li><li>Support email marketing performance data analysis</li><li>Evaluate GEO/SEO performance across priority queries and surfaces, providing data-driven recommendations to optimize visibility and conversion.</li><li>Connect channel analytics to the full customer journey, enabling visibility into multi-touch attribution, funnel progression, and TAL penetration</li><li>Partner with Finance to build CAC/LTV models, ensuring Paid and Digital investments are tied to business outcomes</li><li>Ensure data governance and accuracy across web event tracking, UTM structures, and reporting pipelines in partnership with DS</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>5+ years of experience in an analytics role supporting a B2B go-to-market organization</li><li>Bachelor’s Degree in Business, or quantitative field such as Analytics, Finance, Economics, Physical Sciences, Math, Statistics, Engineering</li><li>2+ years of experience in SQL querying</li><li>2+ year of experience analyzing website visitor and interaction data</li><li>Experience with modern website, marketing, and data technology stacks such as Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Segment, Marketo, Bigquery</li><li>Experience with data visualization tools such as Tableau</li><li>Highly proficient in Excel or Google Sheets</li><li>Familiarity with Salesforce or other CRM software</li><li>Strong business judgment: Be a tenacious decision maker, able to assess priorities and execute to drive key business outcomes</li><li>Strong communication skills: Impeccable written and oral communication credentials, coupled with strategic influencing skills and the ability to drive agreement through intellect, interpersonal and negotiation skills</li><li>Clear results orientation: display the ability to scope and execute on projects in service of both short and long-term goals</li><li>Be able to own and execute an agenda in a dynamic and entrepreneurial environment</li></ul><h2></h2><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

Senior Marketing Analyst - Marketing Strategy & Insights

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.<h2>About the Role:</h2>As the Director of Marketing Strategic Planning &amp; Operations, you will be instrumental in shaping our go-to-market (GTM) strategy. In this role, you will work closely with Marketing and cross-functional teams—including Field, Product and Finance—to drive data-driven insights, strategic planning, and short and long term business strategy. Your primary mission will be to enhance market alignment, accelerate revenue growth, and ensure that Marketing’s strategy and execution aligns to our overall go-to-market strategy and initiatives to deliver optimal impact across the organization.This role is ideal for a transformational leader. You will partner across Marketing to understand our complete set of projects and activities, allocate and prioritize investments and work closely with our Finance and Marketing Strategy and Insights teams to report on what’s driving our KPIs. You will lead the annual Marketing Planning process and cadences, oversee budget management, and prepare executive and board-level materials, including company retros and QBRs. You will constantly evaluate ways to optimize and improve our investments and execution processes and lead change management, enablement, and internal communications working with the CMO, Sr Director of Marketing Ops, and Marketing leadership.The ideal candidate is an expert in defining and leading the execution of strategic marketing planning operations, processes, and frameworks at scale.<h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Lead partnership and workstreams across Marketing Leadership and with Finance to define and implement a strategic planning framework for Marketing initiatives, including pipegen and progression forecasting, target setting, and resource allocation.</li><li>Lead strategic marketing planning and operational excellence programs, including cadences, OKRs &amp; Metrics aligned to company goals, build frameworks for process optimization and investment prioritization.</li><li>Use market research and competitive analysis to identify new growth opportunities, customer segments, product positioning and expansion opportunities.</li><li>Drive the creation of a clear and actionable Marketing plan in alignment to Confluent’s strategic initiatives.</li><li>Lead change management, enablement and internal communications across Marketing and with key stakeholder groups.</li><li>Partner with Marketing Program Managers to execute prioritization processes for inter and intra-marketing program management in alignment to Confluent’s strategic initiatives.</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Bachelor’s degree plus 8-10+ years experience in marketing, operations, strategic planning, program management, or some combination</li><li>Familiarity with modern marketing and sales technology stacks (SFDC, Tableau, Marketo, Asana)</li><li>A self starter who is intellectually curious.</li><li>Strong interpersonal and team building skills; ability to work with a diverse team, influence/drive change across functional and business boundaries, and present to leadership</li><li>Strong business acumen and demonstrated ability to link planning and process gaps, requirements, and desired outcomes to objectives and the defined work required; expert at cross-functional team management, coaching, and mentoring; ability to identify, mitigate, and/or escalate.</li><li>Maniacal about “process and planning design,” you’re obsessed with understanding how everything works and translating requests and business processes into insights-based frameworks and solutions</li><li>Strong program and project and change management skills along with the ability to perform in a fast-paced and high-energy environment.</li></ul><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

Director of Marketing Strategic Planning & GTM Excellence

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.<h2>About the Role:</h2>Confluent is searching for a Senior Customer Success Technical Architect (CSTA) to act as a trusted technical advisor and advocate to work with our customers. The primary objective of this role is to ensure the success, retention &amp; expansion of our customers by providing technical guidance, including best practices, for the Confluent product suite. You will partner with others in Customer Solutions as well as cross-functional divisions such as Sales, Product Management and Engineering to help our customers accelerate time to value, maximize product consumption and achieve their overall business objectives.The CSTA role is both deeply technical and commercial in nature. You will leverage a technical background (e.g. AppDev, SysAdmin, Distributed Computing) to advise customers on their architectures, including patterns &amp; strategies for operating and maturing their Confluent subscription. You will also utilize relationship management skills &amp; industry experience to guide the customer on how they can best achieve their business goals and value-based outcomes via their Confluent investment.In this role, you will have the opportunity to build broad experience with Kafka, Flink and Confluent IP as well as gain an understanding of complementary and competitive technologies. You will work with a variety of organizations ranging from new start-ups to large enterprise customers. Throughout these interactions, you will build strong relationships, ensure exemplary delivery standards, and have a lot of fun helping our customers build state-of-the-art data streaming platforms! Locations: US Remote<h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Champion and advocate for the customer within Confluent. You will be the technical voice of the customer and will leverage learned technical insights &amp; perspective while coordinating between Confluent Sales, Product, Services, Support and Training teams to drive technical success.</li><li>Identify customer technical objections and develop strategies to address those blockers to adoption.</li><li>Proactively support customers through technical lifecycle activities such as architecture planning, cluster &amp; security design, monitoring &amp; automation; review &amp; provide guidance on upgrade or migration plans, platform &amp; application hardening ideas and high availability design.</li><li>Guide customers up the data streaming maturity curve through recommendations on advanced technical topics (e.g. data mesh, stream processing, utilization optimization &amp; performance tuning)</li><li>Develop and present periodic customer reviews, including analysis of technical health and operational performance, to Confluent senior management.</li><li>Document and transfer knowledge to customers and internal teams. This assists customers in advancing their knowledge &amp; abilities on their own, while also helping Technical Support Engineers and Professional Services teams better serve your customers.</li><li>Leverage knowledge of your customer environments and use cases to influence the roadmap of Confluent products.</li><li>When necessary, roll up your sleeves and dig in to help address customer issues alongside Confluent Technical Support Engineers and Core Engineering.</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Bachelor's degree in computer science or engineering, mathematics, or equivalent degree or experience</li><li>Demonstrated success in a technical Field role for a product / SaaS company with enterprise customers</li><li>Passion for working on complex technical problems, with a strong understanding of modern infrastructure and streaming technologies; self-starter who loves a fast-paced environment</li><li>Excellent interpersonal &amp; communication skills and an ability to concisely explain tricky issues and complex solutions to a variety of personas</li><li>Demonstrated ability to manage multiple customers at a time while paying strict attention to detail and delivering results across multiple initiatives such as driving expansion, customer satisfaction, feature adoption, and retention</li><li>Collaborative spirit, outstanding consulting &amp; relationship management skills and ability to rapidly switch context</li><li>Hands on knowledge of one or more key cloud vendors (AWS, GCP and Azure)</li><li>Solid understanding of cloud networking and security technologies (e.g. VPC, Private Link, Private Service Connect, TLS/SSL, SASL, Kerberos, etc.)</li><li>Experience prototyping and analyzing code for client solutions in multiple languages (e.g. Java, Python, Go, etc.)</li><li>Experience with Java Virtual Machine (JVM) tuning and troubleshooting</li><li>Experience with operating Linux, you know how to configure, tune and troubleshoot both RedHat &amp; Debian based distributions</li><li>Ability to learn new technologies quickly, as well as a strong interest in doing so!</li></ul><h2>What Gives You an Edge:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Confluent Developer or Administrator certifications (<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.confluent.io/certification/">https://www.confluent.io/certification/</a>)</li><li>Experience with Apache Kafka &amp; Apache Flink</li><li>Experience helping customers build distributed systems or streaming solutions that use Apache Kafka alongside technologies such as Spark, Flink, Hadoop, Cassandra, etc</li></ul><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

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.<h2>About the Role:</h2>As a member of the Confluent Sales Team, the Account Executive, National Accounts (Canada) is responsible for selling Confluent solutions to small and medium-sized enterprises. We expect you to use your prospecting, sales, negotiation, and leadership skills to effectively sell Confluent offerings to leading companies to meet and exceed your quarterly sales target. You must possess a "hunter/closer" mentality with a proven track record of success within a value-driven sales model.<h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Responsible for driving revenue growth for large, diverse, complex territories.</li><li>Proactively prospect, identify, qualify, develop, and close a sales pipeline.</li><li>Own the development, presentation, and sales of a value proposition.</li><li>Ability to understand and sell to or through the partner ecosystem.</li><li>Partner with Solutions Engineers &amp; Professional Services to ensure customer success.</li><li>Own the entire sales process, and collaborate with team members in business development, customer success, and support.</li><li>Become a subject matter expert on all Confluent offerings and competitive landscape. </li><li>Present to C-levels (as required) the entire suite of product applications to negotiate and close deals.</li><li>Create and nurture customer relationships, opportunities, and partners that lead to growth opportunities.</li><li>Travels to customer sites to identify/develop sales opportunities when required.</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>5+ years of experience in quota-carrying sales roles in a competitive market. </li><li>Prior experience in Big Data, Consumption, Cloud, SaaS, Open Source, or Enterprise IT Solutions.</li><li>Previous sales methodology training (i.e. MEDDPICC, Challenger, etc.). </li><li>Previous experience in leading, driving, and executing a strategic sales strategy and driving revenue growth. </li><li>Consistent track record of success and history of overachieving and hitting quota attainment. </li><li>Exceptional communication skills - written and oral including outstanding presentation skills.</li><li>Exceptional time management skills.</li><li>High integrity, intelligence, self-driven, and team player.</li><li>Highly developed selling, customer relations, and negotiation skills.</li><li>Open to Travel to customer locations as needed.</li><li>BS/BA degree or equivalent preferred.</li></ul><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

Account Executive, National Accounts (Canada)

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.<h2>About the Role:</h2>As a Marketing Data Scientist at Confluent, you will be a key player in analyzing lead funnel efficiency, marketing measurement and pipeline management. In this role, you will collaborate with Marketing, Growth, Sales &amp; Finance stakeholders. Your focus will include data exploration, conducting in-depth analyses, and generating actionable insights to optimize and sustain healthy marketing funnel.<h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Identify high-impact opportunities through data exploration, and generate strategic insights by collaborating with cross-functional teams, contributing to improvement amongst top of the funnel conversion metrics.</li><li>Define marketing metrics to measure success, develop scalable reporting to monitor the health of our pipeline, and analyze drivers for company KPIs</li><li>Share actionable insights and recommendations with leadership at various levels, playing a pivotal role in determining marketing campaign and pipeline strategy</li><li>Design and execute A/B tests to measure the impact of product features and launches, providing insights that guide iterative improvements.</li><li>Provide deep understanding of customer journey phases, from awareness to conversion with expertise in analyzing metrics like ROI, CLTV etc. to identify opportunities for growth and optimization</li><li>Collaborate with other data scientists across our organization to share best practices, learn new analytical techniques, and champion an organizational culture where data is central to decision making</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>3+ years of experience in Data Science supporting a marketing function, preferably at a B2B SaaS company</li><li>Strong proficiency in data manipulation, especially using SQL (3+ years of experience) and a scripting language (Python/R)</li><li>Proficiency in data visualization and building dashboards with tools such as Tableau</li><li>Excellent communication skills, and ability to collaborate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders</li><li>Experience with marketing attribution models across a variety of channels (SEO, Paid Search, Social, etc.) and A/B testing frameworks</li><li>Exceptional problem solving skills and detail-oriented mindset</li><li>Bachelor or advanced degree in a quantitative discipline: computer science, engineering, statistics, economics, etc.</li></ul><h2>What Gives You an Edge:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Familiarity with lead funnel, marketing attribution models, and marketing measurement using causal inference and other advanced analytical methods.</li><li>Understanding of the B2B Marketing Stack, Salesforce objects</li></ul><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

Data Scientist, Marketing

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: Confluent is looking for an experienced Technical Writer to help document Confluent Platform, a more complete distribution of the Apache Kafka distributed streaming platform. We are looking for a writer with a passion for technology and communication. Confluent has a culture that values documentation, which means you will get contributions from engineers, the community, and more! You will make it easy for developers to build a streaming platform and put it at the heart of every company. What You Will Do: <ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Work directly with Engineering, Product, Support, and Sales to deliver best-of-breed documentation that ensures customer success.</li><li>Produce documentation with unified examples, consistent style, and jaw-dropping quality.</li><li>Work with the tools and marketing team to publish documentation in an SEO-friendly, searchable, browsable, and automated way.</li></ul>What You Will Bring: <ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>6+ years of experience writing technical documentation for an external developer audience.</li><li>Excellent writing, editing, and verbal communication skills.</li><li>Ability to work in a modern documentation toolchain, including GitHub experience.</li><li>Experience using generative AI tools (like cursor or GitHub Copilot) for content creation, code summarization, or improving writing clarity.</li><li>Experience using reStructuredText, Markdown, or equivalent.</li><li>Experience reading code in languages such as Java or Python</li><li>Experience using or documenting distributed systems technologies.</li><li>Experience working with open-source development.</li><li>Bachelor's Degree in English, Technical Writing, Computer Science, Learning Technology, or related field.</li></ul><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

Sr. Technical Writer

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.<h2>About the Role:</h2>At Confluent, we live by a core value: Earn Our Customers' Love. As a Customer Solutions Consultant (CSC), you'll be a vital partner to our customers, empowering them to unlock the full value of their investment in our cutting-edge streaming data platform.In this dynamic role, you'll manage a diverse portfolio of customers, from Mid-Market to Enterprise and Strategic accounts. You'll work hand-in-hand with teams across Customer Solutions, Sales, Product, and Engineering, driving activities that ensure technical health, product adoption, and demonstrable value realization. Your efforts will be critical in fostering customer growth and retention.This position is perfect for individuals who are passionate about technology, eager to solve complex business problems, and possess a strong customer-centric mindset. You'll deepen your technical expertise in Kafka, Flink, and Confluent IP, while leveraging your customer-facing skills in a high-growth environment. You'll collaborate with some of the world's most renowned companies, helping them achieve mission-critical outcomes. We're looking for curious, motivated professionals ready to accelerate their development and make a significant impact from day one.<h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Serve as a Trusted Technical Advisor: Build strong relationships with customers, becoming their go-to technical expert across your diverse portfolio. Proactively support customers through the technical lifecycle, including architecture planning, cluster and security design, monitoring, and automation.</li><li>Lead Post-Sale Engagements: Act as a primary technical contact post-sale, coordinating with internal teams to ensure successful outcomes. Guide customers in maturing their data streaming utilization and optimizing their usage through regular technical health reviews. Introduce new product capabilities via roadmap review sessions and plan for their adoption.</li><li>Drive Customer Success: Collaborate with support engineers to troubleshoot issues, identify root causes, and provide actionable insights for customers to take corrective action. Pinpoint technical objections and strategize to overcome adoption blockers. Identify potential risks and execute mitigation plans with internal stakeholders to prevent customer churn.</li><li>Develop Deep Technical Expertise: Cultivate an in-depth understanding of Confluent's technologies and the intricacies of building streaming applications to resolve complex customer challenges.</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Experience &amp; Technical Aptitude: At least 5+ years of experience in Solutions Engineering, Software Development, Data Engineering, Data Architecture, Cloud Architecture, or similar roles. You'll have a passion for solving complex technical problems with a strong understanding of modern infrastructure and streaming technologies, thriving as a self-starter in a fast-paced environment.</li><li>Exceptional Communication: Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to concisely explain complex issues and solutions to a variety of technical and non-technical personas.</li><li>Customer Portfolio Management: Demonstrated ability to manage a large customer portfolio, paying strict attention to detail and delivering results across multiple initiatives like driving expansion, customer satisfaction, feature adoption, and retention.</li><li>Cloud &amp; Networking Expertise: Experience with cloud and on-premises architectures, along with a solid understanding of cloud networking and security technologies (e.g., VPC, Private Link, Private Service Connect, TLS/SSL, SASL, Kerberos).</li><li>Distributed Systems Knowledge: Experience with distributed systems and infrastructure software such as databases, message queues, Kubernetes, serverless technologies, and/or Big Data products, including developing ETL applications.</li><li>Development &amp; Automation: Experience with software development tools, configuration management, infrastructure automation, and CI/CD tooling (e.g., Terraform, Ansible) is a plus.</li><li>Programming Flexibility: Development language agnostic, with proficiency in Java, Python, or SQL.</li><li>Customer-Centric Mindset: A strong customer-centric approach, understanding the customer journey framework and the ability to prescribe ideal outcomes, guiding customers along their path to success.</li><li>Project Management Skills: Proven project management experience for effective internal stakeholder management, coordinating with various teams to ensure overall account success.</li></ul><h2></h2><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

Customer Solutions Consultant (Malaysia)

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.<h2>About the Role:</h2>We are looking for a Frontend Software Engineer to join our awesome UI Foundations team. In your day to day, you will get your hands into deployment infrastructure, contribute to our Design System, improve our public documentation, monitor and improve UI performance, among many other challenges. UI Foundations provides engineers at Confluent with the processes, tools, technologies, and guidance necessary to give our customers a consistent and exceptional UI experience. As a Frontend Software Engineer, you will be responsible for creating the fundamental blocks and providing 10x impact to the frontend of Confluent Cloud.<h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>We unit test our code with Jest.</li><li>We deploy the UI to production every day, with the ability to test each and every commit in production (even PRs) before it goes live.</li><li>Feature flags unblock us from coordinating releases with backend teams</li><li>Bots keep all of our dependencies up to date</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>At least 3+ year of professional experience</li><li>Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or similar field or equivalent</li><li>Experience building client-side web applications for data-intensive applications</li><li>Excellent understanding of modern JavaScript, typing in JS, HTML5, and CSS</li><li>Experience with React/Flux (or equivalent), modern JavaScript tooling/Webpack/Babel</li><li>Strong foundation in algorithms and application design</li><li>Experience with writing/monitoring/managing large scale system deployments</li></ul><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

Sr. Frontend Software Engineer

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.<h2>About the Role:</h2>As part of our rapid growth, we’re looking to expand our National Accounts leadership team. The Regional Sales Director will help lead, develop and grow Confluent’s Northeast National Accounts Sales team. Successful candidates will drive a high performance, high accountability culture to meet and exceed monthly and quarterly sales goals.<h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Directly manage a team of Account Executives with focus on achieving and exceeding quarterly and annual targets.</li><li>Responsible for managing individual and team quotas.</li><li>Recruit, hire, train, motivate, and coach Account Executives, focused on attracting and retaining top talent that has the ability to quickly grow and scale within the organization.</li><li>Set and ensure the team meets quarterly KPI objectives associated with ongoing pipeline development and attaining sales goals.</li><li>Engage in weekly 1:1s to coach, mentor, and assist Account Executives via opportunity and deal inspection reviews.</li><li>Ensure the effective use of <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://Salesforce.com">Salesforce.com</a>, Clari and other tools in day-to-day activities.</li><li>Managing progress and analyzing data in real time.</li><li>Work closely with Sales Operations and Sales Enablement to make recommendations on process improvements.</li><li>Create the sales strategy and continue to iterate to improve execution. Set clear expectations and vision for the team.</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Experience selling technology and/or SaaS solutions to mid-market and small enterprise accounts.</li><li>3+ years management experience.</li><li>Drive to work in an exceptionally fast-growing start-up.</li><li>Passion for sales and pipeline creation.</li><li>Competitive team player and leader.</li><li>Enterprise technology aptitude.</li></ul><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

Regional Sales Director, National Accounts (Northeast)

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.<h2>About the Role:</h2>As the Sr. L&amp;D Specialist, you will be the face of the L&amp;D team in the EMEA region: you will facilitate and enhance the region’s core L&amp;D programs, including New Employee Onboarding and Manager Training. You will work closely with the global L&amp;D team on the creation and delivery of new L&amp;D programs and critical employee enablement training. This dynamic role requires meticulous attention to detail and outstanding organizational skills in order to effectively manage events, logistics, vendors and budgets on both a regional and global basis. Strong stakeholder management and collaboration skills are essential for this role, in order to ensure a balance of global consistency and regional specificity in all L&amp;D offerings.What You Will Do:<ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Lead Confluent’s foundational People Manager Enablement programs for the EMEA region; facilitate management training for EMEA-based People Managers, collaborate with Subject Matter Experts from across the People Team to regularly enhance and update content, manage reporting on program attendance and impact and use subsequent insights to inform future programming</li><li>Be the lead facilitator of New Employee Orientation (NEO) for EMEA; work closely with the global L&amp;D team to ensure that new employees receive a positive welcoming experience, disseminate timely and accurate information to help new joiners quickly acclimate to Confluent culture, address employee questions and concerns in a timely and professional manner.</li><li>Support Confluent’s existing and future development programs by managing program logistics, contributing to content design, and co-facilitating in-person and virtual programming.</li><li>Coordinate in-person training events primarily out of EMEA regional hubs (London, UK and Barcelona, Spain).</li><li>Utilize Confluent’s LMS (Workday Learning) to create events, track attendance and manage reporting for both in-person and virtual L&amp;D sessions.</li><li>Monitor L&amp;D communication channels such as corporate intranet pages, slack channels, Learning email inbox, and the Jira ticket L&amp;D queue.</li></ul>What You Will Bring:<ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>3+ years of relevant experience in HR, Onboarding, Recruiting and/or Learning &amp; Development, with proven experience building and implementing successful employee programs.</li><li>Virtual and in-person facilitation experience including experience with using web conferencing platforms to host small and large classes using features such as break out rooms, whiteboards, chat and screen sharing.</li><li>Ability to collaborate cross-functionally and work independently to propose ideas, create content, and deliver on deadlines.</li><li>Strong organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple events simultaneously.</li><li>Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build relationships across all levels of the organization.</li><li>Adaptability and willingness to adopt new tools, systems, programs, and facilitation techniques</li></ul>What Gives you an Edge:<ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Proven expertise in delivering learning content for in-person, virtual and asynchronous delivery.</li><li>Experience using Workday Learning, as well as industry standard content authoring and survey tools.</li><li>Strong analytical skills, with the ability to analyze data and make recommendations based on findings.</li><li>Experience and interest in using AI and automation tools in a Learning &amp; Development environment</li></ul><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

Senior L&D Specialist

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.<h2>About the Role:</h2>We’re looking for a technically adept Solutions Engineer (SE) to join a cross-functional go-to-market team focused on Confluent’s Oracle XStream CDC Connector. This is a specialized role within the Data Streaming Platform (DSP) Solutions Engineering team, dedicated to enabling strategic Oracle CDC migrations, shaping solution architectures, and advancing the adoption of our next-generation connector technology across enterprise customers. You will partner closely with Product Management, Engineering, Professional Services, and Account teams to drive successful implementations of the XStream connector. This role is ideal for SEs with strong backgrounds in Oracle database internals, real-time data architectures, and distributed systems.<h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Lead Technical Discovery and Solution Design: Engage deeply with customers to understand their Oracle CDC requirements, validate fit, and guide the implementation of the Oracle XStream CDC Connector in both Confluent Cloud and Confluent Platform environments.</li><li>Demonstrate Product Differentiation: Articulate how Confluent’s XStream connector outperforms legacy LogMiner-based solutions and GoldenGate in terms of performance, resilience, and total cost of ownership.</li><li>Support CDC Migrations: Collaborate with Professional Services and Partner teams as part of a “Migration Factory” to de-risk and accelerate transitions from GoldenGate, Informatica, or Confluent’s v1 LogMiner connector.</li><li>Shape Customer Success: Deliver working demos, support POCs, and ensure production readiness for workloads that demand high-throughput, low-latency, and no-data-loss guarantees.</li><li>Enable Go-to-Market Execution: Train internal stakeholders and customers on XStream-specific requirements, such as Java 17 support, PDB configuration, SCN tracking, and XStream Out server setup.</li><li>Drive Field Feedback Loop: Provide detailed technical insights back to Engineering and PM, influencing the roadmap for future connector enhancements (e.g., LOB support, EOS, Exadata compatibility).</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Deep Oracle Expertise: Proven experience with Oracle Database (19c, 21c) administration, replication, and CDC. Familiarity with XStream APIs, LogMiner, and optionally, Oracle GoldenGate. Hands-on experience configuring ARCHIVELOG mode, supplemental logging, and managing SCNs.</li><li>Kafka &amp; Connect: Strong understanding of Kafka Connect architecture. Experience building or managing Kafka-based CDC pipelines.</li><li>Streaming Systems Knowledge: Familiarity with real-time architectures using Kafka, Flink, or KSQLDB. Understanding of event ordering, schema evolution, and snapshot modes (initial, no_data, recovery).</li><li>Data Integration Skills: Ability to work across diverse systems, including data lakes, cloud warehouses, and downstream apps. Experience deploying connectors into hybrid environments (on-prem Oracle → cloud Kafka).</li><li>Programming &amp; Troubleshooting: Proficiency in Java (required for debugging connector issues), SQL, and scripting for automation. Capable of analyzing connector metrics (JMX/MBeans), schema history topics, and debug logs.</li><li>Communication &amp; Leadership: Able to translate deep technical details into customer value and implementation plans. Experience working with DBA teams and guiding them through prerequisites and tuning.</li></ul><h2>What Gives You an Edge:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Familiarity with Oracle GoldenGate (GG) – especially understanding of LCR Capture, multi-threading, and Active Data Guard – is highly desirable.</li><li>Knowledge of Oracle recovery internals, including UNDO, REDO logs, Flashback, and SCN offset management is a major plus.</li><li>Experience with enterprise-grade replication tools such as GoldenGate, Fivetran, Informatica CDC, or equivalent.</li><li>Expertise in Kafka Connect is useful, but deep Oracle domain experience is prioritized for this role.</li><li>Hands-on experience with Oracle XStream (especially XStream Out) is rare and valued as a great-to-have.</li><li>Past involvement in building CDC migration tools, especially for LogMiner-based v1 to XStream v2 transitions, is a bonus.</li><li>Understanding the total cost and licensing model implications of Oracle Enterprise Edition, GoldenGate, and RAC – while not mandatory – can add value during customer TCO discussions.</li><li>Experience mentoring or enabling Professional Services and partner teams in Oracle-specific projects would be beneficial.</li></ul><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

Senior Solutions Engineer - Oracle XStream

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.<h2>About the Role:</h2>We’re looking for a Solutions Engineer with a specialization in cloud networking to join our growing team. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving complex connectivity challenges, especially in hybrid and multi-cloud environments.As a key technical advisor, you'll work closely with customers to design secure, reliable networking architectures that connect on-prem systems to cloud infrastructure (Azure or GCP preferred). You’ll help remove networking blockers and enable smooth deployments of Confluent’s data streaming platform.<h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Design and troubleshoot cloud networking architectures for customers integrating Confluent in hybrid or multi-cloud environments</li><li>Advise on networking patterns, including Private networking, firewalling, NAT, DNS, routing, and identity-aware access</li><li>Support test and production deployments with a focus on Confluent Cloud network integration</li><li>Collaborate with sales teams in discovery sessions, architecture reviews, and technical deep-dives</li><li>Help explain Confluent’s networking model in the context of enterprise security and compliance requirements</li><li>Share best practices through demos, talks, and internal enablement</li><li>Work closely with internal engineering and product teams to represent customer needs</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>8-10+ years in a technical customer-facing role such as Solutions Engineering, Cloud Architect, or Network Engineer</li><li>Strong expertise in Cloud networking (Azure or GCP preferred)</li><li>Strong understanding of cloud networking concepts such as hybrid and multi-cloud architecture, BGP routing, firewalling, DNS, private connectivity, and VPNs</li><li>Experience supporting enterprise customers with complex networking needs and hybrid environments</li><li>Knowledge of on-prem to cloud and cloud-to-cloud networking patterns</li><li>Familiarity with Confluent Platform, Apache Kafka, or similar data streaming platforms is a plus</li><li>Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform) and Kubernetes is a bonus</li><li>Strong communication skills and the ability to translate technical networking details into clear, customer-friendly solutions</li><li>A collaborative mindset and eagerness to solve tough technical challenges </li></ul><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

Senior Solutions Engineer (Networking)

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.<h2>About the Role:</h2>We are looking for a Solutions Architect to join our Professional Services team in Japan. As a Solutions Architect (SA), you will help customers leverage streaming architectures and applications to achieve their business results. In this role, you will interact directly with customers to provide software architecture, design, and operations expertise that leverages your deep knowledge of and experience in Apache Kafka, the Confluent platform, and complementary systems such as Hadoop, Spark, Storm, relational and NoSQL databases. You will develop and advocate best practices, gather and validate critical product feedback, and help customers overcome their operational challenges. Throughout all these interactions, you will build a strong relationship with your customer in a very short space of time, ensuring exemplary delivery standards. You will also have the opportunity to help customers build state-of-the-art streaming data infrastructure, in partnership with colleagues who are widely recognized as industry leaders, as well as optimizing and debugging customers existing deployments. .<h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Helping a customer determine his/her platform and/or application strategy for moving to a more real-time, event-based business. Such engagements often involve remote preparation; presenting an onsite or remote workshop for the customer’s architects, developers, and operations teams; investigating (with Engineering and other coworkers) solutions to difficult challenges; and writing a recommendations summary doc.</li><li>Providing feedback to the Confluent Product and Engineering groups</li><li>Building tooling for another team or the wider company to help us push our technical boundaries and improve our ability to deliver consistently with high quality</li><li>Testing performance and functionality of new components developed by Engineering</li><li>Writing or editing documentation and knowledge base articles, including reference architecture materials and design patterns based on customer experiencesHoning your skills, building applications, or trying out new product features</li><li>Participating in community and industry events</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Deep experience designing, building, and operating in-production Big Data, stream processing, and/or enterprise data integration solutions, ideally using Apache Kafka</li><li>Demonstrated experience successfully managing multiple B2B infrastructure software development projects, including driving expansion, customer satisfaction, feature adoption, and retention</li><li>Experience operating Linux (configure, tune, and troubleshoot both RedHat and Debian-based distributions)</li><li>Experience using cloud providers (Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure) for running high-throughput systems</li><li>Experience with Java Virtual Machine (JVM) tuning and troubleshooting</li><li>Experience with distributed systems (Kafka, Hadoop, Cassandra, etc.)</li><li>Proficiency in Java</li><li>Strong desire to tackle hard technical problems, and proven ability to do so with little or no direct daily supervision</li><li>Excellent communication skills, with an ability to clearly and concisely explain tricky issues and complex solutions</li><li>Ability to quickly learn new technologies</li><li>Ability and willingness to travel to meet with customers</li><li>At least 4-7 years of Professional Services Experience</li><li>Professional Proficiency in Japanese is a MUST</li></ul><h2></h2><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

Senior Solutions Architect (Japan)

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.This role is offered to active duty service members who are enrolled in the Skillbridge program or are looking for a Skillbridge internship only. This is a contract role for up to 6 months. Interns will be paid through the Skillbridge Program by the Department of Defense.<h2>About the Role:</h2>The Strategic Customer Success Manager (SCSM) will play a key role in driving customer success, retention, and subscription expansion within our Public Sector organization. SCSMs provide thought leadership and actionable recommendations to ensure customers take full advantage of the Confluent Portfolio and product capabilities. They are passionate about building customer relationships and embody our core value of “Customer Love”.<h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Meet/exceed quarterly retention targets by proactively engaging with account portfolio and ensuring renewal activities are completed along with the sales team</li><li>Identify and collaborate with the sales team regarding expansion, upsell, and additional service/support opportunities within accounts</li><li>Guide adoption practices with the goal of driving increased value realization and decreased time-to-value from Confluent’s solutions</li><li>Drive cross functional programs and services across existing account base that will grow usage, adoption, satisfaction, customer health, and likelihood to recommend Confluent</li><li>Deliver onsite presentations including Onboarding Guide, Quarterly Business Reviews, Roadmap Sessions, etc. to an Executive audience to drive business value realization and alignment</li><li>Support and maintain relationships with key users and decision-makers at assigned customers, keeping them connected to value being added by our products</li><li>Proactively identify issues/risks and escalate internally for prompt resolution</li><li>Act as a trusted advisor to develop and nurture customers to become strong advocates on behalf of Confluent</li><li>Work across the organization as the customer’s champion to advocate for their needs and ensure company alignment in support of existing account base</li><li>Contribute to continual improvements to our best practices for engagement, value-add, and renewal to meet long-term customer satisfaction and renewals goals Increase customer executive engagement and help arrange for executive invites to headquarters, marketing, and customer engagement events</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Experienced and able to communicate effectively with business executives and leaders about the technical, account and financial aspects of their business relationship with Confluent</li><li>Experience with the sales discovery process and customer service escalation models</li><li>Experience running Executive level reviews in person</li><li>Ability to command a room - public speaking experience a plus</li><li>Highly motivated, goal-driven, outgoing, inquisitive, and customer-centric</li><li>Honest and transparent partner to customers, winning and keeping their trust</li><li>Exceptionally well organized / detail-oriented with outstanding oral and written skills</li><li>Technically competent with a fundamental understanding of Confluent technology, offerings, and value proposition</li><li>Experience in tracking sales activities, customer data, and customer status</li><li>Ability to drive synergy and accountability across cross functional teams</li><li>Collaborative inventive team player</li><li>Experience implementing and supporting large-scale technology solutions at Fortune 500 companies</li></ul><h2>What Gives You an Edge:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience</li><li>B2B experience in account management, sales or consulting role with proven results within global, high-growth, technology companies</li><li>Currently holds or has held a clearance</li></ul><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

Strategic Customer Success Manager - Public Sector

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 Corporate Engineering team at Confluent is responsible for building and maintaining a secure, scalable, and high-performing cloud infrastructure that supports our internal enterprise systems and applications. We are a cloud-native organization with infrastructure entirely based in AWS and GCP, and we support internal productivity through tooling, access, automation, and responsive support.We are seeking a Manager of IT Systems Engineering to lead our team of system and cloud infrastructure engineers. This role will focus on building and supporting internal services, managing our cloud environments, and ensuring secure and reliable access for our employees. The ideal candidate combines strong technical acumen in cloud architecture, systems administration, endpoint management, and networking with excellent organizational and communication skills.This role reports to the Director of Corporate Engineering and oversees key areas:<ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>System Engineering and Automation</li><li>Cloud Infrastructure</li><li>VPN &amp; Network Access</li><li>Internal Application Support</li><li>Endpoint Management</li><li>Office &amp; Remote Networking Support </li></ul>What You Will Do:<ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Team Management: Lead and mentor a team of system and cloud engineers, ensuring strong performance, collaboration, and professional development.</li><li>Cloud Infrastructure Ownership: Oversee the design, management, and optimization of our cloud environments in AWS and GCP.</li><li>Network &amp; VPN Management: Support secure connectivity for all users, managing tools such as Palo Alto GlobalProtect and Twingate for VPN access and zero-trust networking.</li><li>Internal Application Support: Manage core productivity tools including Okta, Google Workspace, and Slack.</li><li>Endpoint Management: Administer and configure Jamf (for macOS) and Intune (for Windows) to ensure device compliance, configuration, and policy management.</li><li>Automation &amp; Operations: Drive scripting and automation of system administration tasks, improving uptime, speed, and reliability.</li><li>Security &amp; Compliance Collaboration: Partner with Security and IT Compliance to maintain controls aligned to SOC2 and ISO27001.</li><li>Process Ownership: Document runbooks, infrastructure diagrams, and system architecture. Build reliable escalation paths and SLAs for internal support.</li><li>Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with client engineering, identity, and IT security to deliver a seamless employee technology experience.</li><li>Incident Management &amp; On-Call: Participate in high-impact incident response and participate in on-call rotation. </li></ul>What You Will Bring:<ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Experience: 5+ years in system/cloud engineering roles, with 2+ years managing technical teams.</li><li>Networking Knowledge: Experience with VPN and office network tools, including Palo Alto, Twingate, and common routing/switching protocols.</li><li>Enterprise App Support: Familiarity with administering and integrating SaaS platforms like Google Workspace, Slack, and Okta.</li><li>Endpoint Management Tools: Deep knowledge of Jamf Pro (macOS) and Microsoft Intune (Windows) for configuration management, compliance, and software deployment.</li><li>Scripting &amp; Automation: Proficiency in scripting languages like Python, Bash, or similar.</li><li>Cloud Expertise: Strong hands-on experience with AWS and GCP, including IAM, VPC, networking, and resource optimization.</li><li>Communication &amp; Organization: Ability to communicate technical topics to both engineers and business stakeholders. Strong documentation and planning skills.</li><li>Security Mindset: Working knowledge of zero-trust access, SSO, IAM, and cloud-native security models.</li><li>Collaboration: Demonstrated ability to build partnerships across engineering, IT, and business teams.</li></ul>Customer Focus: Passion for delivering reliable internal tooling and infrastructure that empowers employees.<h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

Manager, System Engineering

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.<h2>About the Role:</h2>The Enterprise Strategic Account Executive will play a key role in driving Confluent’s business growth in the Philippines through acquiring new customers while maintaining and expanding existing accounts. You will be responsible to drive and execute on the Go to market strategy for the region and deliver business outcomes for large enterprise customers by your expertise in solution selling in SaaS or Data space. <h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Build awareness for Kafka and Confluent</li><li>Actively prospect, identify, qualify and develop sales pipeline in the Philippines, contributing to our Enterprise revenue generating effort</li><li>Close business to exceed monthly, quarterly and annual bookings objectives</li><li>Build strong and effective relationships within the Enterprise space, resulting into growth opportunities</li><li>Build and strengthen relationships with new and existing Confluent Partners</li><li>Create and execute go to market plans that are based on viral methods and organic growth</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>You have 15+ years of Enterprise sales experience in the Technology space</li><li>Deep experience selling within the Database, Open Source, Messaging or Big Data space into Malaysia Enterprise space</li><li>An ability to articulate and sell the business value of big data and the big impact on businesses of all sizes</li><li>Experience selling to Software Developers or Technology leaders including C-Suite Executives</li><li>Experience of working in a sales role in a high growth organization</li></ul><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

Enterprise Account Executive, Strategic

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.<h2>About the Role:</h2>Backend engineers at Confluent work on a set of diverse and complex challenges such as building foundational cloud frameworks and services that power all components of the platform in the Cloud. We are building a new multi-tenant, multi-cloud, polyglot, cloud native compute substrate to enable new business opportunities across Confluent Cloud (including Connect, Apache Flink, Kafka and more) . As a senior software engineer, you think strategically and you help drive end-to-end technical delivery from customer experience to scaling internal operations. You are not confined to the status quo and you leverage your expertise in Cloud-native, large-scale distributed systems to help take our platform to the next level. You worry about key operational aspects (availability, reliability, performance, monitoring, emergency response, capacity planning, disaster recovery) of our new Compute Platform, and you make sure that we have a highly-available, resilient and secure offering that our largest customers can rely on.<h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Build mission-critical backend services that deliver value to our customers. You will play a crucial role in architecting, designing, developing and operationalizing high performance, scalable, reliable and resilient services</li><li>Design, develop, and maintain Kafka Connect connectors for integrating with databases and data warehouses (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, Snowflake).</li><li>Work with open source technologies like Debezium and Kafka Connect to implement Change Data Capture (CDC) connectors.</li><li>Troubleshoot and debug technical issues inside a deep and complex technical stack that includes microservices, containers, and virtualization</li><li>Ensure operational readiness of the services and meet the availability and performance SLA commitments to our customers</li><li>A strategic engineer who constantly thinks of process and operational improvements</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>8+ years industry experience designing, building, scaling and supporting backend systems in production with a solid grasp on good software engineering practices such as code reviews, deep focus on quality, and documentation.</li><li>Strong programming and algorithmic skills. Proficiency in a major programming language, e.g. Java, Go, C / C++, Python, etc.</li><li>Experience configuring and deploying distributed systems and microservices using modern tools, e.g. Kubernetes, Helm, etc.</li><li>Strong focus on project delivery and communication skills.</li><li>Experience in driving operational excellence for large, production services.</li><li>A strong sense of customer centricity, teamwork, technical leadership and mentorship and are excited about team and company success.</li><li>BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience.</li></ul><h2>What Gives You an Edge:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Proven track record of delivering large-scale, highly available, low latency, high quality systems.</li><li>Hands-on technical expertise in large scale systems engineering or distributed systems.</li></ul><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

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.<h2>About the Role:</h2>As the Director of Product Management leading Pricing and Monetization, you will play a key role in designing and optimizing Confluent's pricing models to drive growth. You will collaborate closely across product, engineering, finance, and revenue teams to devise pricing &amp; packaging strategies across our product portfolio that align customer value and differentiation with technical specifications and costs. By building product adoption and growth assumptions, you will also be responsible for informing financial projections while enabling data-driven decision-making. Your expertise will be critical to how we go to market, including our product strategy, positioning &amp; messaging, sales activation, discount strategy &amp; governance, and more.<h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Drive pricing strategy: Work closely across product, engineering, finance, and sales teams to understand our value proposition and differentiation, technical specifications, and cost implications, and translate them into optimized pricing and monetization strategies.</li><li>Build compelling offers: Leverage pricing &amp; packaging best practices to accelerate growth and new product areas while aligning with customer preferences &amp; buying motions across target segments. This includes both Product-Led Growth (PLG) and Enterprise sales motions.</li><li>Oversee billing platform foundations (e.g., Metronome) to support pricing and monetization across the product suite, working with Engineering and Finance to implement scalable and flexible billing models and capabilities.</li><li>Collaborate on Product GTM: Lead product pricing and monetization initiatives for product and solution launches, ensuring enablement for GTM teams and stakeholders. Build go-to-market strategies and drive execution of cross-functional efforts based on in-depth analysis of market drivers, target audiences, and competitive landscape.</li><li>Craft compelling messaging: Connect technical products and features to customer pain points and articulate their business value, including TCO comparisons. Develop messaging and positioning that effectively conveys our value and differentiation, specifically around pricing and monetization. Lead content strategy to ensure pricing-related materials—web, docs, and sales enablement—are compelling and current.</li><li>Build financial projections: Establish product adoption and growth assumptions to inform financial planning, including revenue growth, margins, TAM forecasts, and more.</li><li>Gather insights &amp; assess impact: Present at internal and external events, interact with customers and partners, and gather both qualitative and quantitative insights to refine strategy. Measure, analyze, and evaluate the effectiveness of pricing and monetization strategies against key business metrics.</li><li>Support deal strategy: Develop and implement deal and discounting strategies as part of the overall pricing strategy. Maintain internal and external documentation related to pricing best practices and governance.</li><li>Collaborate on competitive benchmarking: Work across internal teams and conduct external research to plan and execute enablement around competitive positioning and new product launches, with a focus on pricing and monetization.</li><li>Manage and lead a team of ~4-5 PMs to plan and execute across the above roles &amp; responsibilities</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>8-10+ years of product management or equivalent experience, with a focus on pricing, monetization, and/or GTM strategy, and at least 2+ years in a leadership role.</li><li>Deep understanding of pricing &amp; packaging best practices and tooling (e.g., Metronome), particularly with more technical products around data/cloud infrastructure and consumption-based business models</li><li>Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with distinctive strategic thinking and analytical capabilities (Excel required, SQL/R nice-to-have).</li><li>Experience in enterprise software or SaaS industry is a must-have, with a blend of product, strategy, analytics, and marketing/GTM skills in a B2B and cloud/consumption business model.</li><li>Bachelor’s Degree required; Computer Science / Engineering / technical undergrad degree highly preferred. MBA or top-tier management consulting experience is a plus.</li><li>Proven ability to collaborate effectively across cross-functional teams, building trusted relationships with senior stakeholders.</li><li>Excellent communication and presentation skills, with experience writing for both technical and executive audiences and synthesizing key takeaways from complex/ambiguous data.</li><li>Strong ownership mindset and ability to take an “80/20” approach to moving a solution forward for ambiguous problems.</li><li>Lead and mentor a high-performing team, ensuring alignment on objectives and empowering them to deliver exceptional results.</li></ul><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

Director of Product Management, Pricing & Monetization

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.<h2>About the Role:</h2>Confluent is searching for a Customer Success Technical Architect (CSTA) to act as a trusted technical advisor and advocate to work with our customers. The primary objective of this role is to ensure the success, retention &amp; expansion of our customers by providing technical guidance, including best practices, for the Confluent product suite. You will partner with others in Customer Solutions as well as cross-functional divisions such as Sales, Product Management and Engineering to help our customers accelerate time to value, maximize product consumption and achieve their overall business objectives.The CSTA role is both deeply technical and commercial in nature. You will leverage a technical background (e.g. AppDev, SysAdmin, Distributed Computing) to advise customers on their architectures, including patterns &amp; strategies for operating and maturing their Confluent subscription. You will also utilize relationship management skills &amp; industry experience to guide the customer on how they can best achieve their business goals and value-based outcomes via their Confluent investment.In this role, you will have the opportunity to build broad experience with Kafka, Flink and Confluent IP as well as gain an understanding of complementary and competitive technologies. You will work with a variety of organizations ranging from new start-ups to large enterprise customers. Throughout these interactions, you will build strong relationships, ensure exemplary delivery standards, and have a lot of fun helping our customers build state-of-the-art data streaming platforms! Locations: Canada Remote<h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Champion and advocate for the customer within Confluent. You will be the technical voice of the customer and will leverage learned technical insights &amp; perspective while coordinating between Confluent Sales, Product, Services, Support and Training teams to drive technical success.</li><li>Identify customer technical objections and develop strategies to address those blockers to adoption.</li><li>Proactively support customers through technical lifecycle activities such as architecture planning, cluster &amp; security design, monitoring &amp; automation; review &amp; provide guidance on upgrade or migration plans, platform &amp; application hardening ideas and high availability design.</li><li>Guide customers up the data streaming maturity curve through recommendations on advanced technical topics (e.g. data mesh, stream processing, utilization optimization &amp; performance tuning)</li><li>Develop and present periodic customer reviews, including analysis of technical health and operational performance, to Confluent senior management.</li><li>Document and transfer knowledge to customers and internal teams. This assists customers in advancing their knowledge &amp; abilities on their own, while also helping Technical Support Engineers and Professional Services teams better serve your customers.</li><li>Leverage knowledge of your customer environments and use cases to influence the roadmap of Confluent products.</li><li>When necessary, roll up your sleeves and dig in to help address customer issues alongside Confluent Technical Support Engineers and Core Engineering.</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Bachelor's degree in computer science or engineering, mathematics, or equivalent degree or experience</li><li>Demonstrated success in a technical Field role for a product / SaaS company with enterprise customers</li><li>Passion for working on complex technical problems, with a strong understanding of modern infrastructure and streaming technologies; self-starter who loves a fast-paced environment</li><li>Excellent interpersonal &amp; communication skills and an ability to concisely explain tricky issues and complex solutions to a variety of personas</li><li>Demonstrated ability to manage multiple customers at a time while paying strict attention to detail and delivering results across multiple initiatives such as driving expansion, customer satisfaction, feature adoption, and retention</li><li>Collaborative spirit, outstanding consulting &amp; relationship management skills and ability to rapidly switch context</li><li>Hands on knowledge of one or more key cloud vendors (AWS, GCP and Azure)</li><li>Solid understanding of cloud networking and security technologies (e.g. VPC, Private Link, Private Service Connect, TLS/SSL, SASL, Kerberos, etc.)</li><li>Experience prototyping and analyzing code for client solutions in multiple languages (e.g. Java, Python, Go, etc.)</li><li>Experience with Java Virtual Machine (JVM) tuning and troubleshooting</li><li>Experience with operating Linux, you know how to configure, tune and troubleshoot both RedHat &amp; Debian based distributions</li><li>Ability to learn new technologies quickly, as well as a strong interest in doing so!</li><li>Flexibility to travel up to 20% of the time</li><li>Fluent in French is required </li></ul><h2>What Gives You an Edge:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Confluent Developer or Administrator certifications (<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.confluent.io/certification/">https://www.confluent.io/certification/</a>)</li><li>Experience with Apache Kafka &amp; Apache Flink</li><li>Experience helping customers build distributed systems or streaming solutions that use Apache Kafka alongside technologies such as Spark, Flink, Hadoop, Cassandra, etc</li></ul><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

Senior Customer Success Technical Architect - French Speaking

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.<h2>About the Role:</h2>We are looking for a motivated, growth-minded Account Executive to join our New Logo Acquisition Team. In this role, you will be responsible for driving net-new customer acquisition by introducing Confluent’s leading data streaming platform to prospective clients across an Enterprise territory. You'll leverage your strong prospecting, consultative selling, and deal execution skills to uncover opportunities, solve real business problems, and build long-term value for new customers.This role is ideal for individuals who thrive in a fast-paced, high-impact environment and are passionate about delivering value through innovative technology. We welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds who are eager to grow, learn, and contribute to a supportive and performance-driven culture.<h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Own the full sales cycle for net-new logos in your assigned Enterprise territory — from prospecting to discovery, solution design, negotiation, and close</li><li>Proactively identify, qualify, and engage prospects, building a strong and healthy pipeline</li><li>Develop and present compelling value propositions tailored to customer needs and business outcomes</li><li>Partner with Solutions Engineers and Services teams to design effective solutions and ensure a seamless transition post-sale</li><li>Drive the use of strategic sales methodologies (e.g., MEDDPICC) to build and develop a deal structure, forecast accurately, and close with confidence</li><li>Build and nurture relationships with C-level and senior stakeholders to establish trust and credibility</li><li>Collaborate cross-functionally with marketing, business development, and channel teams to maximize your territory potential</li><li>Stay informed about Confluent’s offerings and the broader data infrastructure landscape</li><li>Travel as needed to engage customers and progress deals</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>5+ years of experience in quota-carrying B2B sales, with a strong focus on net-new prospect acquisition</li><li>Demonstrated success in a consultative, solution-selling environment within tech — ideally in SaaS, cloud, big data, or open-source</li><li>Experience applying structured sales methodologies (MEDDPICC, Challenger, SPIN, etc.)</li><li>Track record of meeting or exceeding quota in fast-paced, competitive markets</li><li>Excellent communication and storytelling skills — written, verbal, and visual — with an ability to influence at all levels</li><li>Strong organizational and time management skills; able to balance multiple priorities across complex deals</li><li>A team-first mindset, high integrity, and eagerness to contribute to a supportive and inclusive culture</li><li>Willingness to travel to customer sites as required</li><li>Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience preferred</li></ul><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

Enterprise Account Executive, Acquisition

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.<h2>About the Role:</h2>Confluent is searching for a Customer Success Technical Architect (CSTA) to act as a trusted technical advisor and advocate to work with our customers. The primary objective of this role is to ensure the success, retention &amp; expansion of our customers by providing technical guidance, including best practices, for the Confluent product suite. You will partner with others in Customer Solutions as well as cross-functional divisions such as Sales, Product Management and Engineering to help our customers accelerate time to value, maximize product consumption and achieve their overall business objectives.The CSTA role is both deeply technical and commercial in nature. You will leverage a technical background (e.g. AppDev, SysAdmin, Distributed Computing) to advise customers on their architectures, including patterns &amp; strategies for operating and maturing their Confluent subscription. You will also utilize relationship management skills &amp; industry experience to guide the customer on how they can best achieve their business goals and value-based outcomes via their Confluent investment.In this role, you will have the opportunity to build broad experience with Kafka, Flink and Confluent IP as well as gain an understanding of complementary and competitive technologies. You will work with a variety of organizations ranging from new start-ups to large enterprise customers. Throughout these interactions, you will build strong relationships, ensure exemplary delivery standards, and have a lot of fun helping our customers build state-of-the-art data streaming platforms! Locations: US Remote<h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Champion and advocate for the customer within Confluent. You will be the technical voice of the customer and will leverage learned technical insights &amp; perspective while coordinating between Confluent Sales, Product, Services, Support and Training teams to drive technical success.</li><li>Identify customer technical objections and develop strategies to address those blockers to adoption.</li><li>Proactively support customers through technical lifecycle activities such as architecture planning, cluster &amp; security design, monitoring &amp; automation; review &amp; provide guidance on upgrade or migration plans, platform &amp; application hardening ideas and high availability design.</li><li>Guide customers up the data streaming maturity curve through recommendations on advanced technical topics (e.g. data mesh, stream processing, utilization optimization &amp; performance tuning)</li><li>Develop and present periodic customer reviews, including analysis of technical health and operational performance, to Confluent senior management.</li><li>Document and transfer knowledge to customers and internal teams. This assists customers in advancing their knowledge &amp; abilities on their own, while also helping Technical Support Engineers and Professional Services teams better serve your customers.</li><li>Leverage knowledge of your customer environments and use cases to influence the roadmap of Confluent products.</li><li>When necessary, roll up your sleeves and dig in to help address customer issues alongside Confluent Technical Support Engineers and Core Engineering.</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Bachelor's degree in computer science or engineering, mathematics, or equivalent degree or experience</li><li>Demonstrated success in a technical Field role for a product / SaaS company with enterprise customers</li><li>Passion for working on complex technical problems, with a strong understanding of modern infrastructure and streaming technologies; self-starter who loves a fast-paced environment</li><li>Excellent interpersonal &amp; communication skills and an ability to concisely explain tricky issues and complex solutions to a variety of personas</li><li>Demonstrated ability to manage multiple customers at a time while paying strict attention to detail and delivering results across multiple initiatives such as driving expansion, customer satisfaction, feature adoption, and retention</li><li>Collaborative spirit, outstanding consulting &amp; relationship management skills and ability to rapidly switch context</li><li>Hands on knowledge of one or more key cloud vendors (AWS, GCP and Azure)</li><li>Solid understanding of cloud networking and security technologies (e.g. VPC, Private Link, Private Service Connect, TLS/SSL, SASL, Kerberos, etc.)</li><li>Experience prototyping and analyzing code for client solutions in multiple languages (e.g. Java, Python, Go, etc.)</li><li>Experience with Java Virtual Machine (JVM) tuning and troubleshooting</li><li>Experience with operating Linux, you know how to configure, tune and troubleshoot both RedHat &amp; Debian based distributions</li><li>Ability to learn new technologies quickly, as well as a strong interest in doing so!</li><li>Flexibility to travel up to 20% of the time</li><li>Must be Fluent in French </li></ul><h2>What Gives You an Edge:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Confluent Developer or Administrator certifications (<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.confluent.io/certification/">https://www.confluent.io/certification/</a>)</li><li>Experience with Apache Kafka &amp; Apache Flink</li><li>Experience helping customers build distributed systems or streaming solutions that use Apache Kafka alongside technologies such as Spark, Flink, Hadoop, Cassandra, etc</li></ul><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

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.<h2>About The Role:</h2>We are a team of passionate engineers who love solving complex distributed systems and infrastructure problems. Real-time infrastructure is the future, and we are creating a new category for it - ‘Data in Motion’.Tech in Toronto! Toronto is a Confluent early career engineering hub. Your internship will be a hybrid working model that introduces you to Confluent's culture and enables faster learning, onboarding, and coaching.<ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>At the time of your start date, you will be required to be located in the location on your offer letter.</li><li>You and your fellow interns will have access to office space to collaborate in person for a required three days a week.</li><li>A monthly commuting stipend to travel to and from the office equivalent to $150 CAD. </li><li>This internship requires a working, reliable internet connection and a quiet, dedicated workspace. You will be required to work from your Toronto-based home location two times per week.</li><li>Your monthly salary for your internship will include a housing stipend.</li><li>A travel reimbursement (if required) for round-trip airline flights (to and from the location of your internship to your home location) or driving mileage reimbursement.</li><li>If you receive a return offer at the end of the internship, you will be based in Toronto, Canada.</li></ul><h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>To design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve software that will touch production and have a customer-facing impact.</li><li>Follow best practices for software development and participate in code reviews.</li><li>Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.</li><li>Help build the next generation Kafka by continuing to push the boundaries of distributed system design.</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Pursuing a Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, Math, or a related technical field with a graduation date between December 2026- August 2027</li><li>Self-motivated and able to drive projects with mentorship and project requirements</li><li>Ability to work effectively in teams and strong verbal and written communication skills</li><li>Good knowledge of data structures and algorithms and are proficient in at least one of these languages: Java/Scala, C, C++, Go</li><li>Smart, humble, and empathetic</li><li>Driven and excited about the challenges of a fast-paced, innovative, and quickly growing software development environment</li><li>Interested in building large-scale distributed systems in the cloud and are excited to make an impact</li></ul><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

2026 Confluent Software Engineering Intern Opportunity (Toronto, Canada)

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.<h2>About The Role:</h2>We are a team of passionate engineers who love solving complex distributed systems and infrastructure problems. Real-time infrastructure is the future, and we are creating a new category for it - ‘Data in Motion’.Tech in Texas! Austin is a Confluent early career engineering hub. Your internship will be a hybrid working model that introduces you to Confluent's culture and enables faster learning, onboarding, and coaching.<ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>At the time of your start date, you will be required to be located in the location on your offer letter.</li><li>You and your fellow interns will have access to office space to collaborate in person for a required three days a week.</li><li>This internship requires a working, reliable internet connection and a quiet, dedicated workspace. You will be required to work from your Austin-based home location two times per week.</li><li>A $4,000 USD pre-taxed lump sum payment for a housing stipend at the start of your internship.</li><li>A travel reimbursement (if required) for round-trip airline flights (to and from the location of your internship to your home location) or driving mileage reimbursement.</li><li>A monthly commuting stipend to travel to and from the office equivalent to $150 USD.</li><li>If you receive a return offer at the end of the internship, you will be based in Austin, Texas.</li></ul><h2> What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>To design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve software that will touch production and have a customer-facing impact.</li><li>Follow best practices for software development and participate in code reviews.</li><li>Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.</li><li>Help build the next generation Kafka by continuing to push the boundaries of distributed system design.</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Pursuing a Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, Math, or a related technical field with a graduation date between December 2026- August 2027</li><li>Self-motivated and able to drive projects with mentorship and project requirements</li><li>Ability to work effectively in teams and strong verbal and written communication skills</li><li>Good knowledge of data structures and algorithms and are proficient in at least one of these languages: Java/Scala, C, C++, GoSmart, humble, and empathetic</li><li>Driven and excited about the challenges of a fast-paced, innovative, and quickly growing software development environment</li><li>Interested in building large-scale distributed systems in the cloud and are excited to make an impact</li></ul><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

2026 Confluent Software Engineering Intern Opportunity (Austin, Texas)

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.<h2>About the Role:</h2>We are hiring a proactive and high-impact Executive Assistant II to support two Product VPs. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a dynamic, product-focused environment and operates as a true strategic partner. You’ll enable executive effectiveness, drive cross-functional alignment, and lead the coordination of critical operational activities including global offsites and strategic communications.This position demands independent judgment, high emotional intelligence, and seamless collaboration across stakeholders. You’ll anticipate needs, streamline operations, and maintain exceptional execution in a fast-paced environment.<h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Executive Support &amp; Productivity<ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Manage complex and fast-moving calendars across multiple time zones, including proactive scheduling, prioritization, and conflict resolution for two Product VPs.</li><li>Partner closely with your executives to focus their time on strategic priorities while maintaining visibility and connection with key stakeholders.</li><li>Lead planning and execution of Product Org offsites, including logistics for both domestic and international attendees, agenda design, vendor coordination, communications, and contingency planning.</li><li>Schedule and facilitate recurring team meetings, cross-functional syncs, and executive meetings with well-prepared agendas and follow-ups. </li></ul>Strategic Communication &amp; Liaison<ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Serve as a key liaison between the VPs and stakeholders across Product, Engineering, GTM, and Executive Leadership.</li><li>Draft and refine communications, presentations, and meeting summaries that reflect executive voice and intent.</li><li>Track action items and ensure accountability across workstreams. </li></ul>Travel &amp; Finance<ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Plan and book complex travel itineraries across time zones, ensuring seamless transitions and detailed day-by-day plans.</li><li>Submit and track expense reports accurately and on time; support budgeting and reconciliation for offsites or special projects as needed. </li></ul>Cross-Functional Collaboration<ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Partner effectively with other Executive Assistants to ensure consistency, coordination, and mutual support across leadership teams.</li><li>Foster a collaborative EA network to share knowledge, align on executive priorities, and provide coverage as needed.</li><li>Understand and navigate across organizational boundaries to get things done efficiently and with influence. </li></ul>Program &amp; Project Support<ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Support tracking and execution of product org goals (e.g., OKRs, planning cadences).</li><li>Anticipate needs for materials or context, enabling your executives to show up prepared and focused.</li><li>Maintain accurate and up-to-date documentation across projects, schedules, and meeting cadences.</li></ul></li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>5–7+ years of experience supporting VP-level or above, ideally within product, engineering, or tech environments.</li><li>Demonstrated ability to plan and execute large-scale events or offsites, including coordination with international participants.</li><li>Strong experience supporting multiple leaders with competing demands across time zones and geographic regions.</li><li>Excellent collaboration skills and a team-first mindset—especially when partnering with other EAs or operational teams.</li><li>Advanced proficiency in Google Workspace, Zoom, Slack, and task management tools (e.g., Asana, Notion, Trello).</li><li>A high degree of emotional intelligence, discretion, and business judgment.</li><li>Strong written and verbal communication skills with keen attention to detail. </li></ul><h2>What Gives You an Edge:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Previous experience in a product-led or engineering-driven organization.</li><li>Familiarity with planning cycles (e.g., OKRs, quarterly reviews) and leadership team operations.</li><li>Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.</li></ul><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

Executive Assistant II

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. <h2>About the Role:</h2>We are a team of passionate engineers who love solving complex distributed systems and infrastructure problems. We are building Kora from the ground up to be a true managed service for clients who demand high levels of availability and performance at the lowest cost of ownership. In this role, you will be working on building a highly available, performant, reliable, durable, scalable, and multi-tenant storage engine for Kora. You will be instrumental in driving the technical solutions end-to-end, working closely with the team and key stakeholders to design, architect, and develop top-notch solutions.<h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Build the software underpinning the mission-critical Confluent Cloud storage engine. You will play a crucial role in designing, developing and operationalizing high performance, scalable, reliable and resilient systems.</li><li>Independently drive execution of software projects to deliver complex projects in production with a focus on quality.</li><li>Identify root causes, and get beyond treating symptoms - motivated to dig deep and solve hard problems</li><li>Troubleshoot issues and improve operations for complex technical stack that spans all the 3 clouds.</li><li>Have a strong sense of teamwork and be able to make decisions which benefit the team and company.</li><li>Customer focused - making customers more successful by taking on their most challenging problems motivates you.</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience</li><li>2+ years of relevant cloud infrastructure/cloud networking experience</li><li>Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development</li><li>Experience building and operating large-scale systems in the Cloud</li><li>Solid understanding of basic systems operations (disk, network, operating systems, etc)</li><li>A self starter with the ability to work effectively in teams</li><li>Proficiency in Java, Scala, C/C++, Go or other statically typed languages</li></ul><h2>What Gives You an Edge:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>A strong background in distributed storage systems or databases</li><li>Experience in the areas of resource management and QoS</li><li>Experience/knowledge with public clouds (AWS, Azure or GCP)</li><li>Interest in evangelism (giving talks at tech conferences, writing blog posts evangelizing Kafka)</li></ul><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

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.<h2>About the Role:</h2>Confluent is seeking a seasoned Senior Director of FP&amp;A to lead financial planning, analysis, and strategic decision support across R&amp;D and G&amp;A. This role requires a seasoned finance professional with a strong financial modeling, forecasting, and strategic planning background. The ideal candidate is a highly motivated individual who is intellectually curious, results-driven, and a crisp communicator with solid business and financial acumen. This role reports to the SVP Finance.<h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Lead FP&amp;A support for R&amp;D and G&amp;A functions, partnering with senior executives to drive financial discipline and strategic decision-making</li><li>Partner closely with Product and GTM teams on pricing strategy, providing financial frameworks and analytics to inform pricing decisions and monetization models</li><li>Analyze and optimize Cloud gross margins and infrastructure costs, partnering across both internal teams and external vendors</li><li>Drive operational support and modeling for key G&amp;A initiatives, including recruiting capacity planning and real estate optimization</li><li>Lead and develop a high-performing team, fostering career growth and operational excellence</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>10+ years of FP&amp;A experience, with at least five years directly managing people and teams in a high-growth software company</li><li>Experience partnering with the R&amp;D function</li><li>Proven ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders and drive clarity in complex environments</li><li>Experience operating at all levels with the ability to be hands-on while also keeping an eye on the strategic big picture</li><li>Experience managing and scaling finance teams</li></ul><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

Sr. Director, FP&A (R&D)

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.<h2>About the Role:</h2>We are seeking an experienced Senior Manager of SOX IT to lead and manage the company’s IT Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance program, focusing on IT General Controls (ITGCs), IT application controls, and system/process assessments. This role will be primarily focused on collaborating with key stakeholders across Finance, IT, Engineering, Security and Trust, Operations and external auditors. Additionally, ensuring robust change management, system implementations, driving process automation to comply with SOX 404. The company’s IT SOX program is well-established but ready for optimization, making this an exciting opportunity for a strategic and hands-on IT leader. The role will directly report to the Director of Internal Controls and SOX.<h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Lead the overall IT SOX compliance program including planning, scoping, risk assessments, control design, testing, remediation, and reporting.</li><li>Partner with internal stakeholders and help them navigate through change management, identify design changes to SOX IT controls, conduct impact assessments and root cause analysis for control deficiencies</li><li>Work closely with external auditors, ensuring effective coordination and facilitating efficient testing of controls, Work closely with co-source service providers to ensure timely completion of SOX IT controls within budget</li><li>Navigate and manage IT deficiency mitigation efforts, ensuring timely resolution and presentation of fully formed mitigation plans to key stakeholders</li><li>Identify opportunities for improved scoping, IT control rationalization, and optimization to streamline processes while maintaining compliance.</li><li>Provide IT SOX training and guidance to control owners and key stakeholders.</li><li>Prepare IT SOX compliance reports for executive leadership and the Audit Committee.</li><li>Lead pre-system implementation reviews along with other special IT security projects</li><li>Support tools to automate SOX testing</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>BA/BS degree in Management Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field. Certified Internal Auditor (CIA), Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) or Certified Public Accountant (CPA) certifications- preferred but not required.</li><li>10+ years of experience in IT SOX compliance, with experience in a public listed technology company with home grown applications.</li><li>Integrated audit experience at a Big 4 or similar accounting firm, with a strong understanding of IT audit methodologies, risk assessment, deficiency mitigation and control testing.</li><li>Deep knowledge of the technology industry, especially platform companies with home grown applications strongly preferred</li><li>Strong experience working with controls in the cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, GCP</li><li>Hands-on strategic, comfortable in a fast-paced, ever-changing and rapid-growth environment</li><li>You are a self-starter who is results driven and possesses a strong sense of urgency in a fast paced environment</li><li>Proven ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams and external auditors and build trust quickly.</li><li>Strong project management and communication skills, with the ability to drive compliance initiatives.</li><li>Demonstrated ability to efficiently navigate deficiency mitigation efforts, ensuring timely and effective remediation.</li><li>Experience refining, optimizing and automating the existing control environment while maintaining compliance.</li><li>Demonstrated history of leading a team of professionals and developing and growing your team through skills development and increasing scope</li></ul><h2></h2><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

Senior Manager, IT Internal Audit and SOX

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.<h2>About the Role:</h2>We are looking for a Senior Commercial Contracts Negotiator to join the Confluent Legal Team! In this role you will be supporting the Americas Sales Team. The ideal candidate for this role will have experience with SaaS contracts and supporting a sales organization.<h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Primary support of Confluent’s Sales organization</li><li>Structure, draft, and negotiate commercial agreements</li><li>Negotiate various privacy addendum agreements and security terms</li><li>Review and manage NDAs</li><li>Provide general support to your legal colleagues negotiating contracts, including assisting with the gathering of internal approvals and helping to obtain signatures</li><li>Work on a variety of cutting-edge projects to help our department scale, grow and be more efficient</li><li>Train and interact with Sales, third party partners and customers</li><li>Partner with cross-functional teams</li><li>Keep Legal repositories/systems accurate and up-to-date</li><li>Be an independent worker and thought leader</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>7+ years of experience in technology transactions with an in-house legal team</li><li>Specific experience negotiating SaaS subscription agreements, license and support agreements, and professional services agreements with customers</li><li>Experience working cross-functionally with internal organizations to resolve questions and concerns</li><li>Excellent written/verbal communication and negotiation skills</li><li>Ability to use sound judgment to address complex issues while maintaining an appropriate balance between legal and business requirements</li><li>Ability to maintain strong working relationships with demanding requests, work independently with minimal supervision, and manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced startup environment</li><li>True team player</li><li>Familiarity with technical concepts in Web applications and a willingness to learn new</li><li>Undergraduate degree</li></ul><h2>What Gives You an Edge:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>DPA and BAA negotiation experience</li><li>Negotiating with regulated industries, including healthcare, financial services and telecommunications</li><li>Experience with open source licensing and business models</li><li>Highly responsive and service-oriented attitude</li><li>Growth Mindset</li></ul><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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.

Senior Commercial Contracts Negotiator

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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.<h2>About the Role:</h2>We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to architect, build, and operate security services that are core to the company’s cloud infrastructure and product platforms. This is a hybrid engineering role, blending deep software development expertise with hands-on operational excellence.You will design highly scalable security services (authentication, authorization, identity, secrets management, policy enforcement, security telemetry pipelines, etc.), while also ensuring these systems are reliable, observable, and resilient in production. You’ll work across engineering, security, compliance, and platform orgs to deliver secure-by-default building blocks that empower product teams to integrate security seamlessly.<h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Architect, design, and develop security platform services with a strong focus on scalability, security, and developer experience.</li><li>Lead operational design for reliability: build comprehensive observability, monitoring, and incident response automation into security-critical services.</li><li>Build automation and tooling to drive self-healing systems, proactive risk detection, failure recovery, and continuous resilience testing.</li><li>Collaborate with compliance, governance, and risk teams to translate regulatory and policy requirements into scalable technical controls.</li><li>Lead technical design reviews, security architecture reviews, and incident postmortems for platform-level incidents.</li><li>Mentor engineers across multiple disciplines on both security and operational best practices.</li><li>Own end-to-end delivery of services: from initial design and development through deployment, production hardening, and lifecycle maintenance.</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>10+ years of experience in software engineering, with significant experience operating ring-0/mission critical systems.</li><li>Strong backend software development experience (Go, Java, Rust, Python).</li><li>Expertise with distributed systems, cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure), Kubernetes, service mesh, and container orchestration.</li><li>Strong understanding of security domains: IAM, OAuth2, OIDC, PKI, secrets management, policy engines, audit pipelines, zero trust architecture.</li><li>Experience building highly reliable, observable, and resilient production systems.</li><li>Operational expertise: SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, on-call leadership, incident management.</li><li>Strong collaboration skills to drive alignment across engineering, security, and compliance stakeholders.</li><li>Excellent communication skills with ability to influence technical and business leaders.</li></ul><h2>What Gives You an Edge: </h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Experience with SPIFFE/SPIRE, OPA/Gatekeeper, Envoy, Istio, and workload identity management.</li><li>Exposure to security compliance frameworks (FedRAMP).</li><li>Experience leading cross-org security platform architecture initiatives.</li></ul><h2>Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.</h2><h3></h3><h1>Come As You Are</h1>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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