Confluent

Senior Engineering Manager, Flink Control Plane

Remote, California · Senior

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 69 days ago

ReactDistributed SystemsSnowflakeDatabricksAWSGCPAzureKubernetesRESTLeadershipCommunicationCollaboration

About the role

Your team is responsible for multi-tenant isolation, end-to-end reliability, and the integration points between Confluent's global control plane and the regional Flink data plane.

Architectural Leadership: Lead the ongoing migration of the control plane onto Confluent's latest platform foundations and drive major component refactors in service of reliability, security, and scale.
Scale & Performance: Drive the control plane's evolution to support 10x growth in compute pools, statements, and tenants per region.
Lead initiatives that eliminate hotspots in the metadata and orchestration layers so customer-facing operations remain fast and predictable under load.
People Development: Manage and coach a diverse team. Your primary mission is to mentor junior and mid-level developers, providing them with the architectural context and leadership skills to reach Staff levels.
Collaboration: Work closely with engineering leadership and key stakeholders across Confluent Cloud to drive cross-team efforts to solve complex distributed system challenges at scale - strong cross-org partnership is core to the role.
Focus on Reliability: A mindset geared toward "Operational Excellence." You understand how to build and maintain resilient, enduring technical foundations that serve as a central component for other teams to build upon.
READY TO BUILD WHAT'S NEXT? LET'S GET IN MOTION.
READY TO BUILD WHAT'S NEXT?
And we make space for everyone to lead, grow, and challenge what's possible.
We're not just building better tech.

Exceptional ability to influence peers and upper management using data-driven, collaborative techniques and clear written/verbal communication.

Deep knowledge of distributed systems orchestration (Kubernetes operators, controller patterns, declarative API servers) and multi-tenant resource isolation.
Experience scaling control planes for managed cloud services (AWS, GCP, Azure, Elastic, Snowflake, Databricks, etc.) is highly preferred.
Direct Flink experience is not required.
Technical Depth: Deep knowledge of distributed systems orchestration (Kubernetes operators, controller patterns, declarative API servers) and multi-tenant resource isolation.

Influence the overall domain health and operational hygiene for the platform.
Vision & Execution: Own the overall roadmap and execution for the Flink Control Plane.
Operational Integrity: Lead the team in maintaining high code quality, comprehensive test coverage, and a robust on-call rotation, ensuring the control plane meets enterprise-grade reliability standards.
Belonging isn't a perk here.

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