[Remote] Senior Engineering Manager, Flink Control Plane

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

Company Overview

Confluent offers a streaming platform based on Apache Kafka that enables companies to easily access data as real-time streams. It was founded in 2014, and is headquartered in Mountain View, California, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is https://confluent.io.

Company H1B Sponsorship

Confluent has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 13 in 2026, 142 in 2025, 107 in 2024, 91 in 2023, 155 in 2022, 119 in 2021, 50 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.