Principal Data Governance Architect - Remote

Confluent; Charleston (WV); Remote; USD 285,000 - 342,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus

Job summary

Confluent is seeking a Principal Engineer to lead architecture and ensure scalability of the Data Streaming Platform. You will own governance systems, schema management, and metadata consistency across Confluent Cloud and Confluent Platform, guiding multi-tenant infrastructure at scale.

You will mentor senior engineers, influence architecture decisions, and contribute to open-source initiatives while collaborating with executives and product leadership to align technical vision with business

Qualifications

• Proven track record delivering large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience with streaming or event-driven architectures.
• Ability to influence executives and cross-functional partners.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive company-level technical strategy for governance systems.
• Architect high-performance metadata management for low latency lookups.
• Design data protection capabilities - encryption, access control, schema validation.

Skills

Distributed systems

Streaming architecture

Leadership presence

Architectural decision making

Cloud-native platforms

Technical mentorship

Job description

Confluent is seeking a Principal Engineer to lead architecture and ensure scalability of the Data Streaming Platform. You will own governance systems, schema management, and metadata consistency across Confluent Cloud and Confluent Platform, guiding multi-tenant infrastructure at scale.

You will mentor senior engineers, influence architecture decisions, and contribute to open-source initiatives while collaborating with executives and product leadership to align technical vision with business