6 months ago
Base Salary
$285k - $342k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and drive company-level technical strategy for critical schema and metadata governance systems.
- Architect and evolve high-performance metadata management systems with low-latency lookups, strong consistency, and coherent behavior across streaming and processing engines.
- Design and evolve data protection capabilities, including encryption, access control, and schema validation, across the platform.
- Build and maintain highly available, multi-tenant governance infrastructure optimized for scalability, reliability, and resilience.
- Establish and promote engineering standards, architectural patterns, and technical frameworks across the organization.
- Partner with executives, product management, and engineering leaders to align technical vision with business objectives and build consensus on shared architecture decisions.
- Mentor senior and staff-level engineers and help develop future technical leaders.
- Contribute to relevant open-source projects and represent Confluent through technical talks and thought leadership.
Requirements
- Proven track record leading the architecture and delivery of large-scale distributed systems with company-level impact.
- Comprehensive knowledge of fault tolerance, consistency, scalability, and cloud-native platforms.
- Working depth with streaming or event-driven architectures and familiarity with schema management, data catalogs, or metadata and governance systems.
- Ability to navigate ambiguity, reduce systemic complexity, anticipate industry trends, and design systems for the next 3–5 years.
- Strong ability to influence executives and stakeholders while fostering collaboration across multiple teams.
- Demonstrated ability to move from high-level technical vision to detailed implementation and shipped, adopted outcomes.
- Industry thought leadership through open-source contributions or ground-up initiatives is advantageous.
- Experience with data catalog, metadata, or governance ecosystems, or large-scale data infrastructure supporting mission-critical workloads, is advantageous.
- Deep experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP and resource management and multi-tenancy in complex cloud environments is advantageous.
- Experience building infrastructure for AI or agentic workloads, particularly around metadata, context quality, or governance, is advantageous.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendData Engineering
About Confluent
Confluent is pioneering a fundamentally new category of data infrastructure focused on data in motion. Our cloud-native offering is the foundational platform for data in motion --- designed to be the intelligent connective tissue enabling real-time data, from multiple sources, to constantly stream across the organization. With Confluent, our customers can meet the new business imperative of delivering rich, digital customer experiences and real-time business operations. Our mission is to help every organization harness data in motion so they can compete and thrive in the modern world.