Principal Data Governance Engineer (Remote)

Confluent; Raleigh (NC); Remote; USD 285,000 - 342,000; Full time

Job summary

Confluent is seeking a Principal Engineer to lead the architecture of schema and metadata governance across its Data Streaming Platform. You will shape long-term design, ensure reliability at scale, and guide multi-tenant infrastructure with strong policy enforcement and security.

You will own critical domains, influence product strategy, and mentor senior engineers while collaborating with executives and product leaders to drive architectural decisions across Confluent Cloud and Confluent

Qualifications

• Proven track record leading architecture and delivery of large-scale distributed systems.
• Strong knowledge of fault tolerance, consistency, and cloud-native platforms.
• Experience with streaming architectures and governance systems.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive company-level technical strategy for governance systems.
• Architect and evolve high-performance metadata management with low-latency lookups.
• Design data protection capabilities with encryption and access controls across the platform.
• Build and maintain highly available, multi-tenant governance infrastructure.
• Establish engineering standards and drive cross-team architectural decisions.

Skills

Leadership

Architecture

Distributed Systems

Streaming Architecture

Strategic Influence

Execution

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Confluent is seeking a Principal Engineer to lead the architecture of schema and metadata governance across its Data Streaming Platform. You will shape long-term design, ensure reliability at scale, and guide multi-tenant infrastructure with strong policy enforcement and security.

You will own critical domains, influence product strategy, and mentor senior engineers while collaborating with executives and product leaders to drive architectural decisions across Confluent Cloud and Confluent