Engineering Manager, Stream Governance

Salary: $279.9K - $328.9K Location Type: Remote Employment Type: FullTime

Position Overview

Confluent is revolutionizing how data moves and what the world can do with it. Our platform enables data to stream in near real-time, empowering companies to react faster, build smarter, and deliver dynamic experiences. We are seeking an engineering leader to manage a high-performing team responsible for building, maintaining, and scaling Confluent Stream Catalog and Confluent Stream Sharing products. These are critical components of Confluent’s Stream Governance offering, enabling efficient management and governance of streaming data. The team also owns the Stream Catalog GraphQL API, Data Portal, and Stream Lineage products, facilitating data discovery, tracking, and sharing. Governance is a rapidly growing area at Confluent, offering significant opportunities for innovation and technical leadership.

About the Role

As an Engineering Manager, you will guide the team's strategy, ensure high-quality product execution, and foster a collaborative environment focused on technical excellence and business impact. You will be instrumental in shaping the future of our Stream Governance products.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Leadership: Lead the strategic vision, roadmap, and execution for Confluent Stream Catalog, Stream Sharing, and related governance products, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
• Product Collaboration: Collaborate closely with product management, design, and other engineering teams to define product requirements, technical strategy, and architectural direction.
• Development & Scaling: Drive the development of cloud-native, highly scalable, multi-tenant services that meet the demanding needs of Confluent’s customers.
• Best Practices: Establish and enforce best practices in data governance, security, and operational excellence for our core governance products.
• Team Management & Mentorship: Manage and mentor a team of engineers, providing technical leadership, career development, and performance management.
• Engineering Excellence: Champion engineering excellence, fostering a culture of high-quality software development, effective testing, and operational reliability.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Partner with stakeholders across Confluent to drive adoption and growth of governance products by continuously improving their capabilities and usability.
• Operational Performance: Monitor and optimize the stability, performance, and efficiency of governance services operating in AWS, GCP, and Azure.
• Platform Integration: Influence and contribute to broader Confluent engineering initiatives, ensuring governance services integrate seamlessly with the Data Streaming Platform.

Requirements

• Experience: 10+ years of experience in software development, with at least 2 years in an engineering management role.
• Technical Expertise:
  • Expertise in distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, and data governance technologies.
  • Experience in designing, building, and scaling large-scale, real-time data systems.
  • Deep knowledge of metadata management and data lineage concepts.
  • Experience running production services in the cloud, ensuring high availability and reliability.
• Leadership Skills:
  • Proven track record of leading engineering teams in fast-paced, high-growth environments.
  • Ability to influence and collaborate effectively across engineering, product, and business teams.
  • Strong technical vision and execution skills, with a focus on prioritization, efficiency, and results-driven leadership.
  • Ability to hire while ensuring a high hiring bar, motivate engineers, coach/mentor, and manage performance.
  • An excellent track record of timely shipping features, a sense of urgency, an aggressive mindset toward achieving results, and excellent prioritization skills.
• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent.

About Confluent

We’re not just building better tech. We’re rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real-time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them. It takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together. One Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.