Confluent

Confluent

Principal Engineer I, Governance

Remote, United States · Principal

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 240 days ago
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About the role

  • Confluent's Data Streaming Platform is only as trustworthy as the schemas, metadata, and policies that govern it.
  • 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.
  • Solving complex distributed systems challenges at this scale is one of the core dimensions of this role.

Responsibilities

  • Technical Strategy & Leadership: Define and drive company-level technical strategy for critical governance systems, ensuring long-term innovation for schema and metadata infrastructure.
  • Metadata Architecture & 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 & 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.
  • Strategic Influence: Ability to navigate ambiguity, reduce systemic complexity, and anticipate industry trends to design systems for the next 3-5 years.

Requirements

  • 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.

Benefits

  • 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.
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