Director Engineering, Observability

With Confluent, organizations can harness the full power of continuously flowing data to innovate and win in the modern digital world. We have a purpose that drives us to do better every day – we're creating an entirely new category within data infrastructure - data streaming. This technology will allow every organization to create experiences and use the power of data in ways that profoundly impact the way we all live. This impact is our purpose and drives us to do better every day.

One Confluent. One team. One Data Streaming Platform.

Data Connects Us.

About the Role:

We are looking for a senior leader to lead the Confluent Cloud Observability organization. Confluent observability systems serve a wide array of internal and external users, as our engineers, products, and customers depend on our massively scalable data infrastructure. This infrastructure enables low-latency, high-throughput operations to power a number of critical workflows in Confluent Cloud, including providing customers with insights and auditability of their streaming infrastructure.

In this role, you will inspire and engage a global team of engineers to evolve, enhance, and exceed in their efforts to deliver observability systems at scale.

What You Will Do:

1. Drive long-term direction and strategy for internal and external observability systems while maintaining high levels of productivity and execution standards within your organization.
2. Create competitive advantages for the cloud platform by innovating in large-scale and globally distributed infrastructure.
3. Continue a strong growth trajectory by growing and hiring top-tier engineers.
4. Uplevel quality standards, design principles, and operational maturity goals for your team.
5. Partner with peer engineering leaders across multiple disciplines to deliver impactful, complete, and observable products.

What You Will Bring:

1. 8+ years of engineering management experience.
2. Familiarity with the observability domain (metrics, logging, auditing, traces, events, etc) and its associated stakeholders and requirements (SRE, billing, compliance, data engineering, etc).
3. Ability to attract, recruit, and motivate top talent.
4. Experience building, managing, and running large-scale distributed systems in the cloud (databases, workflows, cluster management, data infrastructure).
5. A focus on outcomes that generate real results while giving your team the space needed to deliver results they are proud of.
6. Ability to anticipate product and customer needs.
7. Experience working in a fast-paced, remote-first environment.

Come As You Are

At Confluent, equality is a core tenet of our culture. We are committed to building an inclusive global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences. The more diverse we are, the richer our community and the broader our impact. Employment decisions are made on the basis of job-related criteria without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other classification protected by applicable law.

At Confluent, we are committed to providing competitive pay and benefits that are in line with industry standards. We analyze and carefully consider several factors when determining compensation, including work history, education, professional experience, and location. This position has an annual estimated salary of $237,510 - $261,270, an annual bonus, and a competitive equity package. The actual pay may vary depending on your skills, qualifications, experience, and work location. In addition, Confluent offers a wide range of employee benefits.