Principal Engineer - Confluent Control Plane

Location: Remote within the United States; locations include Poughkeepsie, Lowell, Rochester, Tucson, Research Triangle Park, Armonk, Durham, Raleigh, Boston, Bellevue, Atlanta, Santa Monica, San Jose, Santa Clara, Dallas, Austin, San Francisco, Seattle, and New York.

Salary: $192,000–$358,000 per year.

Company

hirify.global Software develops AI-powered, cloud-native products and hybrid cloud and data platforms, including Confluent Cloud solutions.

What you will do

• Set and communicate the long-term technical vision for the Confluent Cloud Control Plane.
• Lead large-scale, cross-organizational projects from design through delivery while remaining hands-on with code and systems.
• Improve quality, availability, resilience, scalability, development practices, and operational processes.
• Promote the effective and responsible use of AI throughout the development lifecycle.
• Coach and mentor engineers and technical leaders.
• Partner with engineering and product teams to shape strategy, architecture, and the resource-management roadmap.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree.
• Extensive experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems, including globally distributed, highly available systems.
• Strong fundamentals in distributed systems, including consistency, coordination, performance, and operational characteristics in real-world environments.
• Experience setting technical strategy, partnering across engineering and product teams, and executing roadmaps.
• Strong customer focus and ability to work closely with product teams to shape the overall roadmap.
• Collaborative leadership approach and strong communication skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with multi-cloud systems, cloud control planes, or distributed key-value stores and databases.
• Understanding and practical experience with Kubernetes internals or contributions to the Kubernetes codebase.
• Experience building and operating systems with AI-driven tools and approaches.
• Experience with data streaming systems such as Kafka and Flink.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work arrangement with a regular daytime schedule; some travel may be required based on business demand.
• Full-time regular employment with healthcare, dental, vision, mental health, disability, life insurance, and retirement benefits including 401(k).
• Paid time off includes 12 holidays, at least 56 hours of sick time, 120 hours of vacation, and parental and family leave according to hirify.global policy and applicable law.
• Access to AI-driven learning resources, training, certifications, employee resource groups, volunteer opportunities, and discounts.
• Inclusive workplace focused on innovation, continuous learning, collaboration, and professional growth.