engineering
Posted May 13Senior Engineering Manager, Flink Control Plane
at Confluent
Remote
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Responsibilities
- Define the strategy for job orchestration (submission, scaling, recovery) and serverless resource management. - Architectural Leadership: 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.
- Influence the overall domain health and operational hygiene for the platform. - Scale & Performance: Drive the control plane's evolution to support 10x growth in compute pools, statements, and tenants per region.
- Lead initiatives that eliminate hotspots in the metadata and orchestration layers so customer-facing operations remain fast and predictable under load. - People Development: Manage and coach a diverse team.
Requirements
- You will own the customer-facing Flink REST API and Gateway, the Kubernetes operators that orchestrate Flink job lifecycles (submission, scaling, recovery), and the declarative API server that backs them – the stack every Flink customer interaction flows through.
- Experience: 10+ years in software development with at least 5+ years in engineering management, specifically leading teams focused on cloud-native infrastructure or managed services. - Technical Depth: 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. Direct Flink
Benefits
- WHAT YOU WILL DO: - Vision & Execution: Own the overall roadmap and execution for the Flink Control Plane.
Additional details
- We’re rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it.
- 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.
- Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together. One Confluent. One Team.
- ABOUT THE ROLE: The Flink Platform team is at the forefront of building a robust, serverless control plane for Confluent’s fully managed Flink offering.
- As the Senior Engineering Manager, you will lead a high-impact team of approximately 10 engineers—including two Staff-level individual contributors—responsible for the "brain" of our streaming service.
- Your team is responsible for multi-tenant isolation, end-to-end reliability, and the integration points between Confluent's global control plane and the regional Flink data plane.
- This is a critical leadership role where you will balance deep technical strategy–driving architectural excellence and reliability–with a strong focus on people leadership, specifically growing a talented group of senior engineers into the next generation of Staff-level leaders.
- You will "see around corners" – making the right bets on architecture today so the platform stays resilient as Flink usage grows by orders of magnitude. - Engineering Excellence: Work with engineering teams and product management on critical aspects of product definition, architectural design, and delivery.