engineering
Posted May 13Principal Engineer, Engineering AI Productivity
at Confluent
United StatesRemote
Responsibilities
- - Build a roadmap for introducing agentic automation features, smart assistants, and AI-driven workflows across all aspects of engineering.
Requirements
- ABOUT THE ROLE: We’re seeking a strategic and hands-on technical leader to define and drive Confluent’s internal agentic AI capabilities, and adoption of smart, automated decisioning systems for R&D productivity.
- In this role, you will partner across Engineering, Security, and IT to scale AI usage across our platform to accelerate value for customers and the business.
- - Cross-Functional Leadership - Partner with Engineering, Trust and Security to integrate AI capabilities responsibly and at scale.
- - Operationalize AI adoption internally and share use cases externally - Drive complex cross-team projects requiring multi-stakeholder alignment - Continuously raise the bar for code/architectural quality across engineering - Execution & Delivery - Lead the delivery of core agentic workflows that improves productivity across engineering - Balance of hands-on contributions with effective delegation to others.
- - Define success metrics and KPIs (e.g., AI-driven usage lift, automation ROI, reduction in manual workflows).
- WHAT YOU WILL BRING: - Technical and Product Acumen - 8+ years driving strategic productivity initiatives, ideally in SaaS/Cloud platforms or developer tools with some proven experience in AI initiatives.
- - AI/ML & Automation - Hands-on
- experience with AI or adjacent AI/ML platform
- experience with LLM integration and workflow automation, with demonstrated appetite to build toward agentic patterns - Deep understanding of responsible AI practices and governance. - Customer & Business Mindset - Passion for solving real customer problems with elegant, scalable solutions. - Ability to tie technical efforts directly to business KPIs (adoption, retention, revenue impact).
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.
- - Thought Leadership - Participate in external forums — conferences, podcasts, customer briefings on occasion - Evolve as the technology landscape shifts - Write internal playbooks for building and scaling agentic outcomes.
- - Considered an expert in building distributed systems and/or the infrastructure and tools to support it.
- - Strong communicator who can translate complex technical strategies into impact-oriented outcomes.
- - Execution Focus - Demonstrated track record delivering products or features that generated measurable business value.
- - Comfortable defining success criteria, metrics, and ROI for ambiguous, future-facing domains.