Sr. Manager, KORA Orchestration Global

Confluent • Palo Alto, CA

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About The Position

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.
This is a role leading our Kora Global team, the group behind Confluent’s multi‑region replication stack for Confluent Cloud. That includes technologies like Cluster Linking and Multi‑Region Clusters, which are the backbone for customers who need disaster recovery, global data sharing, and aggregation across regions, clouds, and continents.
You would own the vision and multi‑year roadmap for Kora Global, deciding how we evolve our replication capabilities, improve reliability and performance, and support new DR and global footprint use cases. You’d lead and grow a team of distributed systems engineers, responsible not just for building features but also for operating a large fleet of mission‑critical clusters across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
Operational excellence is a huge part of the job: you'll be accountable for meeting and exceeding SLAs for some of our most critical services, driving root cause analyses, and implementing long‑term fixes that improve security, reliability, and performance. You’d also work closely with product management and other engineering leaders across Kafka/Kora, networking, and control plane to deliver cross‑team initiatives - everything from improved DR experiences to new multi‑region capabilities for our largest customers.

Requirements

• Experience with large-scale distributed systems, especially Kafka or similar streaming platforms.
• Strong background in cloud infrastructure, automation, and orchestration.
• Proficiency in designing, migrating, and operating control plane APIs and services.
• Familiarity with security best practices (RBAC, mTLS, S2S).
• Track record of driving reliability, operational excellence, and incident response in production environments.
• Ability to collaborate across engineering, product, and operations teams.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees