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ConfluentConfluentUnited States

Director II, Engineering

Leads Compute Platform & Unified Deployment team to architect and build secure, multi-tenant cloud-native compute infrastructure for Confluent Cloud. Requires 10+ years in hyper-scale distributed systems, Kubernetes expertise, and technical leadership to ensure reliability and scalability.

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Remote10+ YOEDevOps / SRE

About the role

What You’ll Do

  • Drive technical charter for Compute Platform & Unified Deployment (cloud infrastructure, big data, security & AI)
  • Build roadmap with product and engineering management to enable new business opportunities
  • Deliver high-impact initiatives in security, reliability, multi-tenancy, architecture, component refactor
  • Serve as technical leader and representative for engineering
  • Lead team and product on definition, design, and delivery

What We're Looking For

  • 10+ years delivering scalable software solutions
  • Proven track record leading large-scale, highly available, low latency systems
  • Deep hands-on expertise in hyper-scale distributed systems engineering
  • Deep expertise in multi-cluster/multi-tenant Kubernetes (big plus)
  • Deep expertise in safe deployment of mission-critical workloads (big plus)
  • Expertise in Language Runtimes (JVM, WASM, CPython) (big plus)
  • Expertise in Container & Virtualization/Hypervisor technologies (Firecracker, gVisor, cloud-hypervisor, Kata Containers)
  • Experience in large-scale safe deployment technologies & best practices
  • Experience in Cloud Native technologies including networking & security
  • Experience driving operational excellence for large production services
  • Track record of technical leadership and mentorship
  • Track record of cross-team collaboration

Skills

KubernetesCloud NativeDistributed SystemsContainersVirtualizationJvmWasmCpythonFirecrackerGvisorNetworkingSecurityKafkaFlink

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