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With Confluent, organizations can harness the full power of continuously flowing data to innovate and win in the modern digital world. We have a purpose that drives us to do better every day – we're creating an entirely new category within data infrastructure - data streaming. This technology will allow every organization to create experiences and use the power of data in ways that profoundly impact the way we all live. This impact is our purpose and drives us to do better every day.

One Confluent. One team. One Data Streaming Platform.

Data Connects Us.

About the Role:

We are building a massively scalable data stream processing infrastructure that enables low-latency operations like filters, joins, aggregations, and other more sophisticated computations on real-time data. This will enable our customers to easily build stateful stream-processing applications that are scalable, elastic, and fully fault-tolerant. You can see some of our recent innovations here.

We are looking for a senior leader to lead this organization. In this role, we are excited for you to drive the vision, recruit and build out the engineering team and create a high-performing engineering team that solves complex stream processing challenges at scale.

What You Will Do:

• Lead a highly productive, global team of software engineers and engineering leaders

• Drive long-term direction and strategy, while maintaining high levels of productivity and execution standards within your organization

• Create competitive advantages for Confluent by driving technical innovation

• Continue a strong growth trajectory by hiring top-tier engineers, and establish quality standards, design principles, and operational maturity for your team

• Work closely with peer engineering leaders to prioritize improvements in all these areas - from a culture of continuous improvement to prioritizing large and high-impact initiatives that will fundamentally change Kafka

• Drive the definition, design and delivery of cutting-edge data infrastructure features for Kafka

What You Will Bring:

• 5-10+ years of engineering management experience leading productive, high-functioning teams.

• Ability to hire while ensuring a high hiring bar, keep engineers motivated, coach/mentor, and handle performance management.

• Experience with running large stateful data systems in the cloud.

• Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development.

• A strong track record of shipping features and hitting deadlines consistently. Should be able to move fast, build in increments, and iterate. Have a sense of urgency, an aggressive mindset towards achieving results, and excellent prioritization skills.

• Able to anticipate future technical needs for the product and craft plans to realize them, guided by our customers.

• Preferred experience running production services in public clouds

• Ability to influence the team, peers, and upper management using effective communication and collaborative techniques. Focus on building and maintaining a culture of collaboration within the team.

• An advanced degree in Computer Science or similar field or equivalent industry experience.

Come As You Are

At Confluent, equality is a core tenet of our culture. We are committed to building an inclusive global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences. The more diverse we are, the richer our community and the broader our impact. Employment decisions are made on the basis of 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 applicable law.

At Confluent, we are committed to providing competitive pay and benefits that are in line with industry standards. We analyze and carefully consider several factors when determining compensation, including work history, education, professional experience, and location. This position has an annual estimated salary of $272,970 - $327,555, an annual bonus, and a competitive equity package. The actual pay may vary depending on your skills, qualifications, experience, and work location. In addition, Confluent offers a wide range of employee benefits. To learn more about our benefits click HERE (https://confluentbenefits.com/) .

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