# Jobs at Confluent Open engineering roles at Confluent. - [Senior Manager, Detection & Response (Security Engineering)](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/confluent/senior-manager-detection-response-security-engineering) - Senior Manager leading Confluent's Detection & Response organization within Infrastructure Security, responsible for defining strategic vision, technical roadmap, and operational execution for detecting, investigating, and responding to security threats across multi-cloud environments. Lead a distributed, high-performing engineering team across North America and India, building real-time security automation using Kafka, Kubernetes, and AI-assisted workflows with 12+ years of experience and proven team leadership capabilities. - [Staff Software Engineer](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/confluent/staff-software-engineer-80a47c3e) - Staff Software Engineer at Confluent will design and build backend services (Go, Java, Python) for real-time AI inference on streaming data within Confluent Cloud. This role requires 10+ years of distributed systems experience and demands end-to-end ownership of complex, cross-team technical initiatives spanning model lifecycle management, inference routing, and agent execution on production infrastructure. - [Distributed Systems Software Engineer - WarpSteam](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/confluent/distributed-systems-software-engineer-warpsteam) - This Distributed Systems Software Engineer role at Confluent focuses on building WarpStream, an Apache Kafka-compatible data streaming platform running on object storage with zero local disks. As a Senior Engineer on a small, fully remote team, you'll architect and develop mission-critical backend services solving complex distributed systems problems across AWS, GCP, and Azure, with full-stack ownership spanning storage engines, multi-tenant control planes, and developer experiences. - [Senior Software Engineer - Streaming AI (Remote - Ontario / British Columbia)](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/confluent/senior-software-engineer-streaming-ai-remote-ontario-british-columbia) - As a Senior Software Engineer on Confluent's AI streaming team, you will architect and operate large-scale, high-performance infrastructure enabling AI inference directly on real-time data streams. This role focuses on building distributed systems that eliminate the need for external ML stacks, requiring expertise in cloud infrastructure, systems reliability, and scalable serving layers across AWS, Azure, and GCP. You'll tackle complex challenges in networking, compute optimization, and security while collaborating with core platform teams to deliver production-grade AI capabilities at scale. - [Staff Software Engineer I](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/confluent/staff-software-engineer-i-bef7f6a5) - Staff Software Engineer I at Confluent will design and implement innovative strategies for table materialization, compaction, and multi-tenant infrastructure as part of the Tableflow project, advancing Kora's multi-modal storage engine. This role requires deep expertise in distributed systems, storage engines, and platform engineering to handle streaming data at massive scale across Confluent Cloud. The ideal candidate brings a strong computer science foundation, open-source contributions (Kafka, Iceberg, Flink), and proven ability to influence stakeholders while architecting highly available, scalable infrastructure. - [Senior Software Engineer - Infrastructure](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/confluent/senior-software-engineer-infrastructure) - Confluent is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build and enhance their cloud-native Kora storage engine, focusing on developing highly available, performant, and scalable distributed systems infrastructure across multi-cloud environments. The ideal candidate will drive complex technical solutions end-to-end, working collaboratively to solve challenging distributed systems problems. - [Senior Software Engineer](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/confluent/senior-software-engineer-905efbaa) - Confluent is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to work on the Tableflow project, focusing on developing next-generation storage solutions for their Kora platform. The role involves designing innovative storage engine strategies, building multi-tenant infrastructure, and collaborating across teams to advance data streaming technology. - [Principal Engineer, Engineering AI Productivity](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/confluent/principal-engineer-engineering-ai-productivity) - Confluent is seeking a strategic Principal Engineer to drive internal AI productivity and automation across engineering teams. The ideal candidate will define and implement agentic AI capabilities, focusing on streamlining development workflows, enhancing R&D productivity, and scaling AI adoption responsibly within the organization. - [Senior Software Engineer II, Kora Compute](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/confluent/senior-software-engineer-ii-kora-compute-a24f234c) - Confluent is seeking a Senior Software Engineer II for their Kora Compute team, focusing on building a highly available, scalable, and secure cloud-native event streaming platform. The ideal candidate will be a passionate engineer with strong distributed systems expertise, capable of solving complex infrastructure challenges and driving technical solutions end-to-end. - [Senior Software Engineer II](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/confluent/senior-software-engineer-ii-0b65c19f) - A Senior Software Engineer II role at Confluent focused on developing and architecting cloud-native Stream Governance platforms for data streaming. The position involves leading critical backend systems, designing highly available distributed services, and driving technical innovation in multi-tenant, cloud-native environments across AWS, GCP, and Azure. - [Senior Software Engineer II](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/confluent/senior-software-engineer-ii-602ed76b) - Confluent is seeking a Senior Software Engineer II to build mission-critical backend services for their data streaming platform. This role focuses on developing cloud-native, multi-tenant compute infrastructure that powers Confluent Cloud, including Kafka Connect, Apache Flink, and Kafka services. The ideal candidate brings 8+ years of backend systems experience and expertise in distributed systems architecture. - [Principal Engineer I, Governance](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/confluent/principal-engineer-i-governance) - Principal Engineer I, Governance at Confluent is a strategic technical leadership role focused on architecting and evolving the company's schema and metadata governance systems that power the data streaming platform. This position requires deep expertise in distributed systems, streaming architectures, and governance infrastructure to design highly available, multi-tenant systems that ensure data reliability, compliance, and performance at scale. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record leading large-scale infrastructure projects, strong executive influence, and the ability to balance technical excellence with business impact across complex organizational boundaries. - [Staff Software Engineer I - SRE](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/confluent/staff-software-engineer-i-sre) - Confluent is seeking a Staff Software Engineer I - SRE to drive proactive reliability improvements across their multi-cloud streaming platform that processes millions of events per second. The role combines 75% hands-on engineering work (building automation, tooling, and reliability systems) with 25% incident management program leadership and cross-team coaching. This position requires 10+ years of SRE experience with deep expertise in distributed systems, cloud platforms, and incident management tooling.