Job Description

Description

With Confluent, organisations 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 everyday – we're creating an entirely new category within data infrastructure - data streaming. This technology will allow every organisation 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:

In this role as a first-line Engineering Manager at Confluent you will drive our charter to build an elastic, scalable, efficient, Observability Platform technology that operates in the Cloud. You will guide the vision, recruit, and enable a high performing engineering team that solves complex distributed data processing challenges at scale.

What You Will Do:

• You will work with a team of engineers and architects to help evolve the Observability systems at Confluent.
• Solve challenging problems that will disrupt the stream processing space.
• Manage a team of high-performing engineers and leads, helping them to continue growing their skill-set through hands-on experience and mentorship.
• Provide timely and productive feedback, encourage a growth mindset, and advise team members in setting and working toward personal development goals.
• Nurture a culture of excellence on the team through a focus on hiring, communication, execution, and work quality.
• Collaborate with others in engineering and product leadership to create the long-term roadmap and quarterly deliverables for your team.
• Effectively communicate the roadmap and strategy within the team and across the organization.
• Create and manage processes that enable team members to do their best work

What You Will Bring:

• Overall 10+ years of experience in software development and engineering space.

• Minimum 3+ years of engineering management experience leading productive, high functioning teams.

• Ability to ensure a high hiring bar, keep engineers motivated, coach/mentor and handle performance management issues.

• Experience running large stateful data systems and production services in the cloud.

• Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development

• A great track record of shipping features and hitting deadlines consistently.

• Ability to move fast, build in increments, and iterate. A sense of urgency, a mindset towards achieving results, and excellent prioritization skills. Ability to anticipate future technical needs for the product and craft plans to realize them.

• 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.

• Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Computer Science

What Gives You an Edge:

• Experience using Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, Apache Spark is a big plus.
• Large Scale Observability Systems.
• Data processing systems in general.
• Storage experience