Principal Architect, Data Governance & Streaming

Confluent; Des Moines (IA); Remote; USD 285,000 - 342,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus

Job summary

Confluent is seeking a Principal Engineer to shape the long‑term architecture, scalability, and reliability of its schema and metadata governance across the Streaming Platform. You will own company‑level technical domains, drive critical initiatives, and influence engineering practices and product strategy.

You will lead architecture decisions, mentor engineers, and contribute to open‑source projects while ensuring the platform meets real-time and AI‑driven requirements globally.

Qualifications

• Proven track record leading architecture and delivery of large-scale distributed systems.
• Knowledge of fault tolerance, consistency, scalability in cloud environments.
• Experience with streaming architectures and data governance concepts.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive company-level technical strategy for governance systems.
• Architect and evolve metadata management systems with low-latency lookups and strong consistency.
• Design and evolve data protection capabilities across the platform, including encryption and access control.
• Build and maintain highly available, multi-tenant infrastructure for governance services.
• Establish engineering standards and architectural patterns adopted across the org.
• Collaborate with executives, PM, and engineering leaders to align technical vision with business goals.
• Mentor senior engineers and contribute to open-source initiatives.

Skills

Technical leadership

Distributed systems

Streaming architecture

Strategic influence

Leadership presence

Execution

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Confluent is seeking a Principal Engineer to shape the long‑term architecture, scalability, and reliability of its schema and metadata governance across the Streaming Platform. You will own company‑level technical domains, drive critical initiatives, and influence engineering practices and product strategy.

You will lead architecture decisions, mentor engineers, and contribute to open‑source projects while ensuring the platform meets real-time and AI‑driven requirements globally.