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>You'll help build Confluent Cloud's AI capabilities — the layer that lets customers bring AI and AI agents capabilities directly to their real-time data. Instead of moving data out to a separate system to run inference or build an agent, our customers do it in place, on streaming data, as part of the same platform they already use to move and process events at scale.As an engineer, you'll own delivery of significant pieces of this product — not just writing code, but deciding how a capability should work across the services that make it up. The interesting problems here rarely live in one place: shipping something like inference-on-streaming-data or an AI agent that reacts to live events touches several systems at once — the user-facing API, the services that manage model and agent lifecycle, the control plane that schedules and runs the work, and the serving layer that actually executes inference. You'll be expected to reason across those boundaries, make sound design calls, and get engineers inside and outside the team aligned on the approach.<h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Design and build the backend services (primarily Go, Java, and Python) that run AI and model inference on real-time data.</li><li>Own features end to end — drafting the design, aligning stakeholders inside and outside the team, and driving the decision to a conclusion.</li><li>Make the technical calls on systems that span teams: model lifecycle, inference routing, and agent execution.</li><li>Own the quality of what you ship — code, test coverage, documentation, operability, and rollout safety. This is production infrastructure serving live inference, so reliability isn't an afterthought.</li><li>Make the engineers around you better through code review, design feedback, and being someone the team trusts with ambiguous, cross-cutting work.</li><li>Participate in on-call for the services your team owns, and help keep the team's processes and rituals healthy.</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li> 10+ years of significant experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems or cloud-native backend infrastructure in production</li><li>.Strong working knowledge of Kubernetes and distributed-systems patterns (control loops, API servers, high-scale control planes), plus the fundamentals — containerization, networking, resource isolation.</li><li>Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, or Python, and the willingness to work across all three.</li><li>A track record of leading cross-team technical work: turning ambiguous requirements into designs others can rally behind.</li><li>Excellent written and verbal communication — you can write a design doc that aligns people who don't report to you.</li></ul><h2>What Gives You an Edge:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Exposure to model serving, LLM/agent infrastructure, or streaming data systems.<ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>You don't need a background in ML research or model training — this role is about building and operating the platform that serves AI reliably at scale, not inventing the models.</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.<h1>Privacy Statement</h1>Confluent is an IBM subsidiary which has been acquired by IBM and will be integrated into the IBM organization. By proceeding with this application, you understand that Confluent will share your personal information with other IBM affiliates involved in your recruitment process, wherever these are located. More Information on how IBM protects your personal information, including the safeguards in case of cross-border data transfer, are available <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://ibm.com/careers/us-en/privacy-policy/">here</a>.

Staff 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>WarpStream is an Apache Kafka compatible data streaming platform built directly on top of object storage with zero local disks. It’s delivered to customers as a BYOC-style offering. The WarpStream team is responsible for this product offering from top to bottom, and as a Senior Engineer you’ll do everything from working on the storage engine running in the Agents, improving the scalability of our multi-tenant control plane, implementing new features like transactions, active-active multi-regions clusters, and even write some HTML/Javascript for our developer console. We’re a small team of &lt; 10 engineers, so you’ll be expected to work across the entire stack from bashing bits at the network level to making sure our UI provides a great developer experience.You will have an opportunity to solve complex distributed systems problems at scale. You will build services that can operate across different cloud service providers like AWS, GCP, and Azure. You’ll be on-call for all of it.The WarpStream team is fully remote and geographically distributed, currently we have engineers in: Spain, France, Canada, Ireland, and the USA.<h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Independently drive execution of complex technical projects end to end.</li><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></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>5+ 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>Deep curiosity and enthusiasm for distributed systems and storage systems</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></ul><h2>What Gives You an Edge: </h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Proven track record of delivering large-scale, highly available, high quality systems</li><li>Hands-on technical expertise in large scale systems engineering or distributed systems</li><li>On-call experience handling critical 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.<h1>Privacy Statement</h1>Confluent is an IBM subsidiary which has been acquired by IBM and will be integrated into the IBM organization. By proceeding with this application, you understand that Confluent will share your personal information with other IBM affiliates involved in your recruitment process, wherever these are located. More Information on how IBM protects your personal information, including the safeguards in case of cross-border data transfer, are available <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://ibm.com/careers/us-en/privacy-policy/">here</a>.

Distributed Systems Software Engineer - WarpSteam

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>We're a small, focused engineering team building the AI capabilities of Confluent Cloud. Our job is to make it possible to run machine learning and AI agents directly on real-time data — without customers having to stitch together a separate stack to do it. We own our products end to end, from the user-facing API down to the serving layer that runs inference in production, and we work closely with the broader platform teams whose systems we build on top of. It's a high-ownership, high-autonomy environment: small enough that what you build ships and matters, broad enough that the problems are genuinely hard. <h2>About the Role:</h2>As a Software Engineer on the AI team, you will take ownership of the infrastructure that enables our "in-place, at-scale" AI value proposition. You aren't just building a feature; you are architecting the systems that allow customers to run complex inference and AI agents directly on streaming data, eliminating the need to move data to external stacks. This is a high-impact role where your work on scalable, cost-efficient serving layers directly drives Confluent's growth and redefines the possibilities of real-time data.We are looking for engineers who thrive on the technical complexity of large-scale distributed systems. You will tackle deep infrastructure challenges across networking, compute, and security to ensure our AI capabilities are as reliable as the core data plane itself. If you are passionate about building the foundational systems that power the next generation of AI in the cloud, this is the place to do it.<h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Design, develop, and operate large-scale, high-performance infrastructure that powers Confluent Cloud.</li><li>Build foundational software to improve reliability, scalability, and efficiency across cloud environments.</li><li>Work on distributed systems challenges such as consensus algorithms, failover strategies, and resource allocation.</li><li>Collaborate with teams across Confluent to optimize and enhance infrastructure for real-time data streaming use cases.</li><li>Troubleshoot and improve system reliability, observability, and performance across multiple cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP).</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li> 2-5 years of industry experience designing, building, and supporting backend systems in production.</li><li>Strong fundamentals in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and networking.</li><li>Experience in building and operating large-scale, high-availability systems.</li><li>Good understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and their services.</li><li>Proficiency in Java, Scala, C++, Go, or other statically typed languages.</li><li>A self-starter with strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment.</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>Exposure to model serving, LLM/agent infrastructure, or streaming data systems.</li><li>Note - You don't need a background in ML research or model training — this role is about building and operating the platform that serves AI reliably at scale, not inventing the models. </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.<h1>Privacy Statement</h1>Confluent is an IBM subsidiary which has been acquired by IBM and will be integrated into the IBM organization. By proceeding with this application, you understand that Confluent will share your personal information with other IBM affiliates involved in your recruitment process, wherever these are located. More Information on how IBM protects your personal information, including the safeguards in case of cross-border data transfer, are available <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://ibm.com/careers/us-en/privacy-policy/">here</a>.

Senior Software Engineer - Streaming AI (Remote - Ontario / British Columbia)

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:We are a team of passionate engineers who love solving complex distributed storage systems and infrastructure problems. Through the Tableflow project, we are building the next generation of storage solutions for Kora, transforming it into a true multi-modal storage engine. Our goal is to enable streaming data to be consumed both as a table and as a stream seamlessly. If you're interested in learning more about the challenges we are tackling, check out our blog post: Tableflow: The Stream/Table, Kafka/Iceberg Duality.As a Staff Software Engineer I on the team, you will focus on advancing key layers of the Tableflow project, including its multi-tenant, highly available compute infrastructure, and the core components responsible for table materialization and background maintenance. You will tackle challenges such as developing strategies for efficient table materialization and maintenance at massive scale across all of Confluent Cloud, ensuring high availability and scalability for background storage tasks.What You Will Do:Storage Engine Development: Design and implement innovative strategies for table schematization, materialization, and compaction at massive scale.Platform Engineering: Build and maintain multi-tenant, highly available infrastructure that powers background computational tasks for Kora’s long-term storage. Ensure that the platform is optimized for scalability, reliability, and resilience, in alignment with organizational objectives.Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate with product management, design, and other engineering teams to ensure seamless integration of storage features and infrastructure with the broader organization.What You Will Bring:<ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience</li><li>Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence and guide stakeholders at all levels.</li><li>What Gives You an Edge:</li><li>Familiarity with or has experience contributing to the following open-source technologies: Apache Kafka, Apache Iceberg, Apache Flink</li><li>Experience/knowledge with public clouds (AWS, Azure or GCP)</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.<h1>Privacy Statement</h1>Confluent is an IBM subsidiary which has been acquired by IBM and will be integrated into the IBM organization. By proceeding with this application, you understand that Confluent will share your personal information with other IBM affiliates involved in your recruitment process, wherever these are located. More Information on how IBM protects your personal information, including the safeguards in case of cross-border data transfer, are available <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://ibm.com/careers/us-en/privacy-policy/">here</a>.

Staff Software Engineer I

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.<div style="min-height:1.2em;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"> </div><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.<div style="min-height:1.2em;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"> </div></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.<h1>Privacy Statement</h1>Confluent is an IBM subsidiary which has been acquired by IBM and will be integrated into the IBM organization. By proceeding with this application, you understand that Confluent will share your personal information with other IBM affiliates involved in your recruitment process, wherever these are located. More Information on how IBM protects your personal information, including the safeguards in case of cross-border data transfer, are available <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://ibm.com/careers/us-en/privacy-policy/">here</a>.

Senior Software Engineer - 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>Confluent's Cloud Networking team is responsible for making connectivity to and from Confluent Cloud reliable, scalable, secure, cost-efficient, and simple to use — across Kafka, Flink, Connectors, Data Governance, and Tableflow, on AWS, Azure, and GCP.As Staff PM for Cloud Networking, you will own the platform strategy for how enterprises connect to Confluent Cloud. This is not a feature-level role — you will define the architecture of our networking product surface across all clouds and connection models, set the multi-year roadmap, and operate as a co-decision-maker alongside engineering leadership on the technical direction of the platform. You will work across all networking connection types — PrivateLink, VNet peering, Transit Gateway, Private Service Connect, and egress optimization — and drive alignment across engineering, field, and executive stakeholders on what we build and why.<h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Own the platform strategy for Confluent Cloud Networking across AWS, Azure, and GCP — defining the north star, multi-year roadmap, and sequencing of bets that balance customer connectivity needs, cost efficiency, security posture, and engineering leverage</li><li>Define frameworks and standards that other PMs, designers, and engineers use to evaluate networking decisions — connection model selection criteria, cost attribution models, security control frameworks, and launch readiness standards</li><li>Drive architectural decisions in partnership with engineering leadership — weighing trade-offs between user experience, cost, and operational complexity</li><li>Expand scope and create optionality — identify adjacencies the team should move into (network observability, cost transparency tooling, next-generation isolation models) and build the business case for them</li><li>Develop the product team — mentor Senior PMs on the team, provide feedback on product documents and roadmap thinking, and raise the bar on how the team approaches customer research and decision-making</li><li>Build senior stakeholder alignment across product, engineering, sales, field, legal, and security, then present the platform vision to executive leadership to secure organizational investment — develop the business case, communicate trade-offs clearly, and earn commitment for multi-year platform bets</li><li>Define and own success metrics at the platform level — connecting technical milestones to business outcomes including revenue, retention, attach rates, and infrastructure cost efficiency</li><li>Engage directly with strategic customers and prospects — represent the product roadmap with credibility in technical conversations with enterprise CTOs, architects, and network engineers</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>8+ years of product management experience, with at least 3 years owning a cloud infrastructure, platform, or networking product</li><li>Demonstrated track record of setting product strategy and roadmap at platform or portfolio scope — not just feature-level delivery</li><li>Deep fluency in cloud networking concepts: PrivateLink, VNet peering, Transit Gateway, Private Service Connect, DNS, security groups, CIDR/IP management, and their trade-offs across AWS, Azure, and GCP</li><li>Experience owning products that serve enterprise customers with complex compliance, security, and connectivity requirements</li><li>Proven ability to partner with engineering leadership as a co-decision-maker on architectural direction — not just translating engineering output</li><li>Strong analytical foundation: can model unit economics, build business cases with cost/risk sensitivity, and measure platform health through leading and lagging indicators</li><li>Practices AI-native product management — uses AI tools as a genuine thought partner throughout the product lifecycle (research, prioritization, spec writing, analytics), with sound judgment on when to use, override, and validate AI output; and brings that same mindset to product design, building features and APIs that are composable, observable, and easy for AI agents and automation to consume</li><li>Experience developing PMs and raising the bar on product thinking — through direct mentorship, feedback, or team processes</li></ul><h3>Preferred</h3><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Experience with Envoy, Service Mesh, DNS and Kubernetes Networking</li><li>Familiarity with Terraform, API-first and infrastructure-as-code workflows, and how enterprise engineering teams operate networking automation</li><li>Exposure to network traffic metering, data transfer billing attribution, cost transparency tooling, or pricing and packaging strategy for cloud infrastructure products — defining packaging tiers, price points, and commercial model for enterprise buyers</li><li>Experience operating in a product-led growth or usage-based pricing environment</li><li>An MBA degree is a plus</li></ul><h2>What Gives You An Edge:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>At the Staff level, we expect more than excellent execution on a defined scope. We're looking for someone who:<ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Defines the playing field — identifies problems the team isn't yet working on and builds conviction for why they should be</li><li>Multiplies others — makes the PMs and engineers around them better through frameworks, feedback, and the way they structure problems</li><li>Operates without a ceiling — can go from a whiteboard architecture discussion to a customer negotiation to an executive strategy review, and adds value in all of them</li><li>Takes a position — has a clear point of view on where cloud networking is going and can defend it under scrutiny, while remaining open to updating when given new information</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.<h1>Privacy Statement</h1>Confluent is an IBM subsidiary which has been acquired by IBM and will be integrated into the IBM organization. By proceeding with this application, you understand that Confluent will share your personal information with other IBM affiliates involved in your recruitment process, wherever these are located. More Information on how IBM protects your personal information, including the safeguards in case of cross-border data transfer, are available <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://ibm.com/careers/us-en/privacy-policy/">here</a>.

Staff Product Manager, Cloud 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 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 highly available, reliable, secure, scalable, and multi-tenant Kora's compute 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. 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://www.confluent.io/events/current/2023/apache-kafkas-next-gen-rebalance-protocol-towards-more-stable-and-scalable/">Apache Kafka's Next-Gen Rebalance Protocol: Towards More Stable and Scalable Consumer Groups</a> <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.confluent.io/blog/cloud-native-multi-tenant-kafka-with-confluent-cloud/">From On-Prem to Cloud-Native: Multi-Tenancy in Confluent Cloud</a> <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.confluent.io/blog/from-apache-kafka-to-confluent-cloud-optimizing-for-speed-scale-storage/">Speed, Scale, Storage: Our Journey from Apache Kafka to Performance in Confluent Cloud</a> <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://assets.confluent.io/m/2d7c883a8aa6a71d/original/20200501-WP-Benchmark_Your_Dedicated_Apache_Kafka_Cluster_on_Confluent_Cloud.pdf">Benchmarking Confluent Cloud</a><div style="min-height:1.2em;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"> </div><h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Driven and excited about challenges of delivering complex projects in production with a focus on quality</li><li>Customer focused - making customers more successful by taking on their most challenging problems motivates you</li><li>Have a strong sense of teamwork and able to make decisions which benefit the team and company</li><li>Identify root causes, and get beyond treating symptoms - motivated to dig deep and solve hard problems<div style="min-height:1.2em;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"> </div></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>4+ 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 Proficiency in Java, Scala, C/C++, Go or other statically typed languages</li></ul><div style="min-height:1.2em;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"> </div><h2>What Gives You an Edge:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>In-depth familiarity with the JVM</li><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><li>Experience working on databases or data storage</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.<h1>Privacy Statement</h1>Confluent is an IBM subsidiary which has been acquired by IBM and will be integrated into the IBM organization. By proceeding with this application, you understand that Confluent will share your personal information with other IBM affiliates involved in your recruitment process, wherever these are located. 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Senior Software Engineer II, Kora Compute

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>Today, enterprises stitch together separate systems for streaming, analytics, and serving. Each of these systems come with its own latency, cost, and operational overhead. The next evolution of Confluent's platform collapses that complexity by continuously materializing streaming data into fast, queryable state that serves real-time analytics, operational applications, and downstream intelligent systems from a single foundation.As a Staff Product Manager, you'll own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for the core streaming analytics engine underlying Confluent's real-time data platform. This system sits at the intersection of stream processing, real-time analytical databases, and modern serving infrastructure, continuously transforming data in motion into low-latency, queryable materialized views that power AI agents, dashboards, operational queries, and event-driven applications. You'll own the engine: the storage, materialization, query layer, and performance, while partnering with peer product managers who own the downstream product experiences built on top of it.This is a foundational, high-leverage role. You'll define a new product category that brings together concepts from streaming analytics, real-time OLAP, materialized views, and modern database systems into a cloud-native, streaming-first architecture. You'll partner directly with engineering, design, and senior leadership to bring this to market and position Confluent as a compelling alternative to standalone real-time analytical databases.<h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Own the product strategy for Confluent's streaming analytics engine: storage, materialization, query serving, performance, and developer experience.</li><li>Develop competitive strategy against established real-time analytical databases, articulating Confluent's differentiated value as a streaming-native alternative.</li><li>Drive key architectural and product tradeoffs across consistency, latency, query performance, cost, and developer ergonomics.</li><li>Partner deeply with engineering to navigate the technical complexity of building a new cloud-native data system at scale.</li><li>Collaborate with peer product managers who own downstream experiences including AI, context delivery, and application integration, to ensure the engine meets the needs of the products built on it.</li><li>Work with customers and design partners to validate use cases across real-time analytics, operational applications, and AI, shaping the developer experience and refining go-to-market positioning.</li><li>Collaborate with Confluent's broader product and platform teams to ensure tight integration with Kafka, Flink, and Confluent Cloud.</li><li>Define success metrics, cost models, and pricing strategy for a new product area.</li><li>Influence Confluent's company-wide platform strategy through executive-level communication and cross-functional leadership.</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.</li><li>8+ years of experience in product management or related technical roles.</li><li>5+ years of experience taking technical infrastructure or data products from conception to launch.</li><li>Deep familiarity with real-time analytics, database internals, or streaming data platform architecture, either through product management or hands-on engineering.</li><li>Experience defining and launching products in the data infrastructure, analytics database, or stream processing space.</li><li>Strong technical judgment, comfortable navigating tradeoffs in distributed systems, storage engines, query performance, and cost optimization.</li><li>Track record of leading cross-functional initiatives with executive-level visibility and communicating technical strategy to senior leadership.</li></ul><h2>What Gives You an Edge:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Engineering background in analytical databases, stream processing, or distributed storage systems.</li><li>Experience with real-time OLAP engines (e.g., ClickHouse, Apache Druid, StarRocks, Apache Pinot) as a builder, product manager, or power user.</li><li>Familiarity with Kafka, Flink, or similar streaming infrastructure.</li><li>Experience building products that serve AI/ML workloads for retrieval, feature serving, or context delivery.</li><li>Prior experience with cloud-native infrastructure products and consumption-based pricing models.</li><li>Experience working on open source data infrastructure projects.</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.<h1>Privacy Statement</h1>Confluent is an IBM subsidiary which has been acquired by IBM and will be integrated into the IBM organization. By proceeding with this application, you understand that Confluent will share your personal information with other IBM affiliates involved in your recruitment process, wherever these are located. 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Staff Product Manager, Real Time Data Analytics Platform

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 Cloud delivers a complete end-to-end streaming experience via a Software as a Service (SaaS) model. To deliver a simple, understandable, and scalable product experience requires abstracting the complex interactions of underlying cloud infrastructure, networking, storage, and compute powering a stateful distributed system.As a Senior Product Manager on the Cloud Networking Product team, you’ll contribute to the mission of making connectivity to and from Confluent Cloud reliable, scalable, secure, cost efficient and simple to use so that users can focus on building streaming applications instead of managing infrastructure. Cloud networking with focus on private networking is an enabler for all services offered on Confluent Cloud and is a strategic investment area for Confluent with the potential to impact the company’s top and bottom lines.You’ll be responsible for the success of major product initiatives, from initial conception to execution and launch. You’ll become the trusted resource for your product, making sure that the engineering, design, sales, and marketing have what they need to make the right tradeoffs, build the right product, and grow it successfully in the market.<h2>What You Will Do:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Understand our users: Conduct interviews and analyze data to define personas, user journeys, and key jobs to be done.</li><li>Drive crucial aspects of Confluent Cloud Network Roadmap supporting Confluent Cloud services like Kafka, Flink, Connectors, Data Governance, etc with a heavy focus on user experience and cost efficiency.</li><li>Define flexible interfaces powering API, CLI and Terraform, data models, and processes and launch a variety of new network options and rapidly iterate on existing ones</li><li>Be responsible for the whole lifecycle: Drive multi-team, cross-functional initiatives from conception through initial delivery and ongoing iteration after launch.</li><li>Close the loop: Define quantitative and qualitative targets, measure performance against them, share results with stakeholders, and incorporate those learnings into the product.</li><li>Manage complexity: Deliver value while handling the surprises and challenges of a quickly evolving product, ambitious partnership targets, and a rapidly growing organization.</li></ul><h2>What You Will Bring:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>5+ years of experience as a Product Manager with focus on cloud technologies.</li><li>Experience building and supporting enterprise-grade products as a product manager, engineer or solutions architect.</li><li>Experience building, writing, maintaining and defending a clear product roadmap and backlog backed by user stories and customer research.</li><li>Excellent analytical, communication &amp; collaboration skills.</li><li>Ability to build relationships with co-workers and customers located around the world.</li><li>Demonstrated ability to drive business outcomes through product changes.</li></ul><h2>What Gives You an Edge:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>6+ years of experience in Networking in a PM or technical role</li><li>Experience with enabling AWS/Azure/GCP private networking features such as Private Link, VPC Peering, Transit Gateway, etc for a SaaS product.</li><li>Experience with Envoy, Service Mesh, DNS and Kubernetes Networking.</li><li>Experience with network traffic metering and billing.</li><li>Domain expertise in networking technologies combined with Product Management experience. An MBA degree 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.<h1>Privacy Statement</h1>Confluent is an IBM subsidiary which has been acquired by IBM and will be integrated into the IBM organization. By proceeding with this application, you understand that Confluent will share your personal information with other IBM affiliates involved in your recruitment process, wherever these are located. More Information on how IBM protects your personal information, including the safeguards in case of cross-border data transfer, are available <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://ibm.com/careers/us-en/privacy-policy/">here</a>.

Senior Product Manager, Cloud 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>Confluent's Data Streaming Platform is only as trustworthy as the schemas, metadata, and policies that govern it. As more of the platform's value shifts toward real-time processing and AI-driven decisioning, the systems that keep data well-formed, reliable, discoverable, and compliant, from the moment it's produced through every downstream consumer, become as critical to correctness as the storage and compute layers themselves. The governance layer and the stream catalog integrates the Data Streaming Platform into a unified, intuitive and intelligent product to serve the critical real-time use cases for our customers.As a Principal Engineer, you will be a key technical leader shaping the long-term architecture, scalability, and reliability of Confluent's schema and metadata governance systems, and their integration across the broader Confluent Streaming Platform. You will focus on advancing the core layers of Stream Governance, including highly available, multi-tenant infrastructure and the systems responsible for schema management, data policy enforcement, and metadata consistency at scale.You will own company-level technical domains, set direction for critical initiatives, and influence both engineering practices and product strategy. This role requires operating with autonomy in highly ambiguous spaces, making decisions that balance technical depth with business impact to ensure reliability and scalability for governance services across all of Confluent Cloud and Confluent Platform.<h2>What You Will Do</h2>- Technical Strategy &amp; Leadership: Define and drive company-level technical strategy for critical governance systems, ensuring long-term innovation for schema and metadata infrastructure.- Metadata Architecture &amp; Lifecycle Management: Architect and evolve high-performance metadata management systems that support low-latency lookups, strong consistency guarantees, and coherent behavior across streaming and processing engines.- Data Policy &amp; Governance Systems: Design and evolve data protection capabilities — including encryption, access control, and schema validation — enforced consistently across the platform.- Platform Engineering: Build and maintain highly available, multi-tenant infrastructure for governance services, ensuring the platform is optimized for scalability, reliability, and resilience.- Architectural Excellence: Establish and evangelize engineering standards, architectural patterns, and technical frameworks adopted across the organization.- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with executives, product management, and engineering leaders across the platform to align technical vision with business objectives — working across team boundaries to build consensus on shared architecture decisions you don't have direct authority over.- Mentorship &amp; Culture: Mentor senior and staff-level engineers, growing future technical leaders and shaping a culture of engineering excellence and open-source contribution.- Open-Source &amp; External Representation: Contribute to relevant open-source projects and represent Confluent externally through technical talks and thought leadership.<h2>What You Will Bring</h2>- Deep Expertise: A proven track record of leading the architecture and delivery of large-scale distributed systems with company-level impact.- Distributed Systems Mastery: Comprehensive knowledge of fault tolerance, consistency, scalability, and cloud-native platforms.- Streaming Architecture Fluency: Working depth with streaming or event-driven architectures, and familiarity with adjacent domains such as schema management, data catalogs, or metadata/governance systems.- Strategic Influence: Ability to navigate ambiguity, reduce systemic complexity, and anticipate industry trends to design systems for the next 3–5 years.- Leadership Presence: Strong ability to influence executives and stakeholders while fostering a collaborative environment across multiple teams.- Execution: Demonstrated ability to move from high-level vision to detailed technical implementation and delivery, with a strong bias toward shipped, adopted outcomes over theoretical design.<h2>What Gives You an Edge</h2>- Industry Leadership: Recognized industry thought leader through open-source contributions or driving initiatives from ground up.- Advanced Domain Knowledge: Experience with data catalog, metadata, or governance ecosystems, or large-scale data infrastructure supporting mission-critical workloads.- Cloud Infrastructure: Deep experience with public clouds (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and expertise in resource management and multi-tenancy in complex cloud environments.- AI-Adjacent Systems: Experience building infrastructure that serves AI or agentic workloads, particularly around metadata, context quality, or governance. <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.<h1>Privacy Statement</h1>Confluent is an IBM subsidiary which has been acquired by IBM and will be integrated into the IBM organization. By proceeding with this application, you understand that Confluent will share your personal information with other IBM affiliates involved in your recruitment process, wherever these are located. More Information on how IBM protects your personal information, including the safeguards in case of cross-border data transfer, are available <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://ibm.com/careers/us-en/privacy-policy/">here</a>.

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