# Director II, Engineering

**Company:** [Confluent](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/confluent)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** Kubernetes, Cloud Native, Distributed Systems, Containers, Virtualization, Jvm, Wasm, Cpython, Firecracker, Gvisor, Networking, Security, Kafka, Flink
**Posted:** 2026-03-16

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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

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