Job Description:
We’re not just building better tech. We’re rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real-time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them. It takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together. One Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform. About the Metrics Platform Team: The Confluent Metrics Platform team's mission is to provide a best-in-class observability foundation that enables customers to monitor, analyze, and optimize their real-time data streaming infrastructure at cloud scale. Our charter is to deliver Realtime Metrics and Insights through the Confluent Cloud Metrics API, empowering businesses to make data-driven decisions about their streaming workloads. We are a critical component of Confluent's observability systems, serving as the primary interface through which customers understand the health, performance, and behavior of their Kafka clusters, connectors, ksqlDB applications, and Schema Registry deployments. Our technology powers monitoring dashboards, alerting systems, and capacity planning tools for thousands of customers running mission-critical streaming applications. About the Role: As a Senior Manager, Engineering for the Metrics Platform team, you will build, lead, and grow a high-performing engineering organization responsible for one of Confluent's most critical services. This role demands a unique blend of deep technical expertise and strong leadership—you must drive both the strategic vision for a large-scale, real-time analytics platform AND execute flawlessly on operational excellence. Your immediate focus will be on: Scaling for Growth: Leading the technical strategy to scale our metrics infrastructure to handle 10x data volume over the next 2 years; API Evolution: Driving the roadmap for new metrics datasets, query capabilities, and integration patterns; Operational Excellence: Ensuring 99.99%+ availability, sub-second query performance, and seamless incident response; Cross-Team Collaboration: Partnering with multiple teams across Telemetry, Cloud Infrastructure, and Product to deliver end-to-end observability solutions.
