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 Stream Processing & Analytics (SPA) team is building an elastic, reliable, durable, cost-effective, and performant stream processing engine based on Apache Flink for Confluent Cloud. This role is critical in defining and executing the long-term vision around a scalable, efficient, resilient and true cloud native data stream processor, including initiatives enabling autoscaling and limitless state management, ensuring a zero-knob and worry-free experience for our users and customers by providing the right amount of stream processing at any given point in time, allowing customers to focus on building their use case without managing infrastructure complexities.
WHAT YOU WILL DO:
- Architect and Drive Technical Strategy: Own the architecture and technical strategy for a complex engineering system (e.g., a core component of scheduling, deployment, autoscaling, or state management) within the Flink engine.
- Contribute to the broader technical vision and translate it into actionable, high-impact projects aligned with Confluent Cloud’s strategic goals.
- Exercise sound judgment in balancing short-term implementation efforts versus long-term architectural health.
- Complex Project Execution:Independently drive the execution of open-ended, complicated technical projects within your area of expertise or across peer teams from inception through production.
- Identify and initiate high leverage, high impact projects in your area of expertise and gain buy-in from stakeholders.
- Significantly simplify the complexity of code and design to help the team and company move fast.
- Technical Expertise and Operational Excellence:Serve as the sought-out technical expert for your domain, driving great quality and impact to architectural designs for your team and peer teams.
- Improve the stability, performance, scalability, and operational excellence across multiple critical systems within the SPA team.
- Act as a subject matter expert for troubleshooting and improving operational automation, proactively addressing systemic issues.
- Mentorship and Communication:Demonstrate strong, clear, succinct technical communication skills (written and verbal) to drive clear decisions and uplevel communication for the team.
- Mentor and coach junior and mid-level engineers, helping the team grow sustainably (e.g., by setting up processes/tools