
Confluent
Confluent builds an enterprise data streaming platform centered on Apache Kafka to move and process real-time data across systems. Its products include Confluent Cloud (managed Kafka) and Confluent Platform (self-managed), sold via SaaS subscriptions, support, and enterprise licensing; capabilities include stream processing and Cluster Linking for multi-region replication and migration. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, Confluent is a public company on NASDAQ.
Open Positions at Confluent
10 open positions
Build the backend and distributed systems that let customers run AI inference and agents directly on Confluent’s real-time streaming data. This staff-level role combines cross-team technical leadership with hands-on work across model lifecycle, control-plane, and inference-serving systems.
Build and scale WarpStream’s Apache Kafka-compatible distributed streaming platform on top of cloud object storage. This senior role spans backend services, storage, multi-tenant control planes, reliability, and occasional developer-console work.
Build the distributed infrastructure that lets customers run AI agents and machine learning directly on real-time streaming data in Confluent Cloud. You’ll own scalable serving systems across cloud environments and tackle challenging reliability, networking, compute, and security problems.
Senior Software Engineer building Tableflow’s next-generation storage engine and multi-tenant infrastructure for Confluent’s data streaming platform. The role focuses on scalable table materialization, compaction, and highly available background storage operations.
Build the highly available, scalable storage engine powering Confluent Cloud’s Kora managed service. This role combines distributed-systems engineering, cloud infrastructure, and production operations across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
Lead the strategy and hands-on delivery of Confluent’s internal agentic AI capabilities, enabling smarter engineering workflows and measurable productivity gains. This Principal Engineer role blends AI systems design, cross-functional influence, responsible AI governance, and execution at production scale.
Build Kora’s highly available, secure, and scalable compute layer for Confluent Cloud, solving complex distributed-systems and infrastructure problems. You’ll work across architecture, development, operations, and customer-focused production delivery.
Build and lead mission-critical backend services for Confluent’s cloud-native Stream Governance platform. You’ll shape architecture, mentor engineers, and operate distributed data-streaming systems across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
Lead the long-term architecture and technical strategy for Confluent’s schema, metadata, and data governance systems across its real-time streaming platform. This high-impact role combines distributed systems engineering, platform reliability, cross-company influence, and technical leadership.
Staff Software Engineer focused on site reliability and incident management for Confluent Cloud’s high-scale, multi-cloud streaming platform. The role combines hands-on automation and reliability engineering with organization-wide incident response leadership and coaching.