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[Remote] Director Engineering, Traffic & Networking

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Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Confluent is a company focused on transforming how data is managed and utilized. The Engineering Director for Traffic & Networking will lead a globally distributed team responsible for the orchestration of a multi-cloud network, ensuring high-performance data movement and seamless integration with Confluent Cloud.

Responsibilities

  • Manage a globally distributed team that is responsible for the programmable interface of our networking fabric
  • Act as a technical lead for the team driving vision, roadmap, and execution on various projects
  • Mentor managers as well as ICs, helping them become domain experts in various technologies and products that build our networking fabric as well as enable our customer’s data streaming use-cases
  • Drive cross-team projects, across various product pillars, that have company wide impact in delivering innovative capabilities on our platform and that build differentiation and bring value to our real time streaming customers

Skills

  • 10+ years of experience leading relatively large (12 or greater) highly technical teams
  • Deep technical understanding of cloud infrastructure. Especially Kubernetes, cloud networking
  • A background in developing and leading teams that specialize in building high scalable distributed cloud native applications
  • Experience building SaaS products and platforms
  • Understanding cloud networking, especially as a user of cloud infrastructure across the three hyper scalers
  • Experience running cloud hosted services, especially enterprise applications
  • A background in real time streaming infrastructure and data processing infrastructure
  • A Masters/PhD in Computer Science or a related field

Company Overview

  • Confluent offers a streaming platform based on Apache Kafka that enables companies to easily access data as real-time streams. It was founded in 2014, and is headquartered in Mountain View, California, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is https://confluent.io.
  • Company H1B Sponsorship

  • Confluent has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 13 in 2026, 142 in 2025, 107 in 2024, 91 in 2023, 155 in 2022, 119 in 2021, 50 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.
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