Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Confluent is a company focused on revolutionizing data movement with their innovative platform. They are seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a team responsible for the Flink Control Plane, overseeing the development of a robust, serverless control plane for their Flink offering and ensuring architectural excellence and team growth.

Responsibilities

• Own the overall roadmap and execution for the Flink Control Plane
• Define the strategy for job orchestration (submission, scaling, recovery) and serverless resource management
• 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
• Work with engineering teams and product management on critical aspects of product definition, architectural design, and delivery
• Drive the control plane's evolution to support 10x growth in compute pools, statements, and tenants per region
• Manage and coach a diverse team
• Work closely with engineering leadership and key stakeholders across Confluent Cloud to drive cross-team efforts to solve complex distributed system challenges at scale
• Lead the team in maintaining high code quality, comprehensive test coverage, and a robust on-call rotation

Skills

• 10+ years in software development with at least 5+ years in engineering management, specifically leading teams focused on cloud-native infrastructure or managed services
• 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
• A proven track record of hiring while ensuring a high bar, keeping engineers motivated through complex technical transitions, and managing performance effectively
• 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
• Exceptional ability to influence peers and upper management using data-driven, collaborative techniques and clear written/verbal communication

Benefits

• Offers Equity

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