Director II, Engineering - Head of Control Plane
Company: Confluent
Location: Elkins Park
Posted on: June 24, 2025
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Job Description:
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 –
were 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. About the Role: The cloud
platform enables low-latency, high throughput and critical
workflows that power Confluent Cloud. This platform enables end to
end management, monitoring, elasticity, security and orchestration
of the entire cloud ecosystem. We are looking for a senior leader
to build the global and regional control plane for all of
Confluent. This is a critical piece of the architecture which helps
manage the product metadata, orchestration, and inter-product
workflows. The team builds high scale resource management and data
management services. In this role, we are excited for you to drive
the vision, lay the roadmap, and build out a high-performing
engineering organization. What You Will Do: • Build global and
regional control planes to help scale Confluent Cloud into the new
era of streaming data services. • Uplevel and overhaul operational
posture and excellence of the cloud infrastructure to support 10x
scale. • Build data management and orchestration technology that
can operate and scale across top three cloud providers - AWS,
Azure, GCP. • Design automations, platforms, best practices and
tools to enable disaster recovery of data stores, stateful systems
and stateless systems • Partner with senior leadership in R&D
to drive cultural, technical, people and process improvements in a
growing organization. What You Will Bring: • 10 years of
engineering management experience leading productive,
collaborative, high-functioning teams in a cloud environment. • 5
years developing cloud native infrastructure software at global
scale. • Experience building, managing and running large scale
distributed databases and data systems in the cloud. • Demonstrated
experience in effectively influencing and working with the exec
team using effective communication and collaborative
techniques.
Keywords: Confluent, Jersey City , Director II, Engineering - Head of Control Plane, IT / Software / Systems , Elkins Park, New Jersey
