Principal Engineer I – Governance

🕒 August 12

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $285k - $342k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

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Confluent

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2014

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

☁️ SaaS

💰 Secondary Market on 2021-06

Artificial Intelligence • SaaS • Cloud Computing

Confluent is a company that specializes in data streaming platforms which turn real-time data events into actionable outcomes. Their solutions enable the development of intelligent, real-time applications, empowering teams and systems to respond to data instantly. Confluent builds a new data category that impacts the real world by providing the infrastructure for real-time data streaming, which is recognized and partnered with major tech companies like Google Cloud and Microsoft. The company maintains a remote-first culture, hiring talent from over 25 countries, and values diversity and inclusivity in their workplace.

📋 Description

• Define and drive company-level technical strategy for governance systems • Architect and evolve high-performance metadata management systems with low-latency lookups and strong consistency • Design and evolve data protection capabilities, including encryption, access control, and schema validation • Build and maintain highly available, multi-tenant governance infrastructure optimized for scalability, reliability, and resilience • Establish and evangelize engineering standards, architectural patterns, and technical frameworks • Partner with executives, product management, and engineering leaders to align technical vision with business objectives • Build consensus across teams on shared architecture decisions • Mentor senior and staff-level engineers and shape engineering excellence and open-source contribution culture • Contribute to relevant open-source projects • Represent Confluent externally through technical talks and thought leadership

🎯 Requirements

• Proven track record leading architecture and delivery of large-scale distributed systems with company-level impact • Comprehensive knowledge of fault tolerance, consistency, scalability, and cloud-native platforms • Working depth with streaming or event-driven architectures • Familiarity with schema management, data catalogs, or metadata/governance systems • Ability to navigate ambiguity, reduce systemic complexity, and anticipate industry trends for the next 3–5 years • Ability to influence executives and stakeholders while fostering collaboration across multiple teams • Demonstrated ability to move from high-level vision to detailed technical implementation and delivery • Experience with open-source contributions or driving initiatives from the ground up • Experience with data catalog, metadata, or governance ecosystems, or large-scale data infrastructure supporting mission-critical workloads • Deep experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP and resource management and multi-tenancy in complex cloud environments • Experience building infrastructure for AI or agentic workloads, particularly around metadata, context quality, or governance

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity • Bonus • Competitive pay and benefits • Equal opportunity workplace • Opportunities to contribute to open-source projects and represent Confluent externally