Director, Engineering - Confluent

HITEC; City of Poughkeepsie (NY); Presencial; USD 180 000 - 240 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

IBM Software is seeking an engineering leader to guide strategic vision, engineering, and operations for core teams building the Kafka-based platform. You will oversee Confluent's cloud brokers, networking, and security, ensuring scale and reliability.

The role demands strong leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and a track record of delivering high-impact features on time in a cloud environment.

Qualificações

• 3+ years of engineering management experience leading productive, high-functioning teams.
• Maintain a high hiring bar while coaching and managing performance.
• Experience with running large stateful data systems in the cloud.
• Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development.
• Track record of shipping features and meeting deadlines.
• Sense of urgency and prioritization skills.

Responsabilidades

• Lead a global team of software engineers and engineering leaders.
• Drive long-term strategy for Confluent and Kafka, partnering with stakeholders.
• Create competitive advantages through technical innovation.
• Prioritize improvements across culture, large initiatives, and quality standards.
• Grow the team by hiring top engineers and maturing operational practices.

Conhecimentos

Engineering management

Distributed systems

Cloud data systems

Hiring & mentoring

Technical leadership

Formação académica

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree

Ferramentas

Confluent Kafka

Cloud platforms

Descrição da oferta de emprego

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Your role and responsibilities

We are building a massively scalable stream processing infrastructure that enables low-latency operations like filters, joins and aggregations on real-time data. This will enable our customers to easily build stateful stream-processing applications that are scalable, elastic, and fully fault-tolerant.

We are looking for an engineering leader to lead the strategic vision, engineering, and operations of core engineering teams that build Confluent's industry-leading Kafka platform. The Confluent Cloud Brokers, Networking and Security will be your primary focus. As a key leader, you will play a significant role in the ongoing transformation of the Kafka platform, driving innovation and outpacing competitors. You will be responsible for operating our cloud platform at scale.

What You Will Do:

• Lead a highly productive, global team of software engineers and engineering leaders
• Drive the long-term direction and strategy of Confluent and Kafka, while partnering with internal stakeholders to drive the team’s mission forward
• Create competitive advantages for Confluent and Kafka by driving technical innovation
• Work closely with peer engineering leaders to prioritize improvements in all these areas - from a culture of continuous improvement to prioritizing large and high-impact initiatives that will fundamentally change Kafka.
• Continue a strong growth trajectory by hiring top tier engineers, and establish quality standards, design principles, and operational maturity for the team

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• 3+ years of second-level engineering management experience leading productive, high-functioning teams.
• Maintain a high hiring bar while recruiting, motivating engineers, coaching/mentoring, and managing performance.
• Experience with running large stateful data systems in the cloud.
• Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development.
• A great track record of shipping features and hitting deadlines consistently.
• Sense of urgency, an aggressive mindset towards achieving results, and excellent prioritization skills.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Able to anticipate future technical needs for the product and craft plans to realize them, guided by our customers.
• Preferred experience running production services in public clouds
• Ability to influence the team, peers, and upper management using effective communication and collaborative techniques. Focus on building and maintaining a culture of collaboration within the team.

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OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

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- Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being

- Financial programs such as 401(k), cash balance pension plan, the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs

- Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law

- Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI-driven learning platform where IBMers can grow skills and obtain industry-recognized certifications to achieve their career goals

- Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences

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This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role.

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