Confluent
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How Confluent hires
Truth index
A 95/100
Median time to fill
107 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%
Confluent scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 17 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 107 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
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Overview
Confluent is a data streaming technology company headquartered in Mountain View, California, and founded in 2014. The company provides a cloud-native platform based on Apache Kafka that enables organizations to process, store, and analyze real-time data streams across various environments. Publicly traded on the NASDAQ, the firm serves thousands of global customers across industries such as financial services, retail, and manufacturing through its managed cloud services and self-managed software.
News
Confluent Health Celebrates 65 Physical and Occupational Therapists Earning Prestigious Board Certifications
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Sept. 17, 2026, Sept. 17, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Confluent Health is celebrating 65 physical and occupational therapists ac...
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Confluent cofounder says believing in AI's upside means reckoning with its 'dark side'
Confluent's cofounder, Jay Kreps, says AI's rapid progress makes its risks impossible to dismiss as a marketing ploy.
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Absolutely Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Watermarks in Apache Flink - Part 1: Apache Flink
Deep-dive reference on Apache Flink watermarks: generation, propagation, idle partition detection, alignment, and why lateness is non-deterministic.
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How we cut Flink OOMKills by 91.2%: Zombie block cache, phantom CPUs (and some bonus AI Learnings)
How we traced a native-memory leak in Flink's RocksDB block cache and a jemalloc fragmentation bug, cutting OOMKilled Task Managers by 91.2% - plus what running the investigation with Claude taught us.
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Why enterprise AI keeps stalling - and how data streaming could unlock it
Confluent's new Intelligence and Cloud features aim to fix the data layer that stalls enterprise AI agents with real-time streaming and security controls.
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Latest from Confluent streamlines use of streaming for AI TechTarget
Streaming data specialist Confluent
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Three skills that matter when AI handles the coding
As AI takes on the heavy lifting, developers must master the ability to prompt models, evaluate model output, and above all, retain their coding skills.
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If You Want AI ROI, Give People Time to Play
AI adoption stalls without time to experiment. Leaders must create space for employees to explore tools and unlock real ROI.
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How Apache Kafka flexed to support queues
The latest release of Apache Kafka delivers the queue-like consumption semantics of point-to-point messaging. Here's the how, what, and why.
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AI project failures often cultural, not technical
Here are three practices that address the cultural and organizational barriers that can impede AI success.
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Confluent over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
48
Postings analysed
34
Stack modernity
77/100AI adopter
Languages
Java32%
C++26%
Go24%
Python24%
Frameworks & libraries
Flink32%
Commander.js6%
Databases
Apache Iceberg6%
BigQuery3%
ClickHouse3%
Druid3%
Cloud & platforms
AWS62%
Azure62%
GCP62%
Apache Kafka59%
AI & ML
LLM18%
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Full Confluent tech stack
48 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$238k
Typical range
$120k – $342k
Open positions
16
16
Jobs
Senior
62.5%
Staff
25%
Principal
12.5%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | 10 | $227k | $120k – $271k |
| Staff | 4 | $275k | $272k – $307k |
| Principal | 2 | $342k | $342k |
Highest paying role
Principal Engineer I, Governance
$342k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Confluent
By role, level and city, against the market · 16 jobs with pay
Growth
Hiring Momentum
62/100
Growing
Open positions
17
0 opened / 5 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
102 days
faster than 13% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
10/16/2026
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Backend
75% ▼
Security
25% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added Linux to stack
Sep 2026
Added DNS to stack
Sep 2026
Added Wi-Fi to stack
Sep 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack
Sep 2026
Added BigQuery to stack
Sep 2026
Added Agentic Workflows to stack
Sep 2026
Added Least Privilege to stack
Sep 2026
Added ETL/ELT to stack
Sep 2026
Added GitHub to stack
Aug 2026
Added LLM Guardrails to stack
Aug 2026
New location: Mountain View
Aug 2026
New location: Boston
Aug 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
8
Hiring now
3
Countries
5
Busiest office
Mountain View
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Mountain View
United States
HQ
Mountain View Headquarters
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 100% remote $277k Avg Salary
hires for Backend
899 West Evelyn Ave., Mountain View, CA 94041
Toronto
Canada
Engineering / R&D
2 open roles 100% engineering 50% remote $134k Avg Salary
hires for Backend
Bengaluru
India
Engineering / R&D
1 open roles 100% engineering
hires for DevOps
Singapore
Singapore
Regional office
#16-01, 16th floor, 8 Temasek Boulevard, Suntec Tower Three,Singapore 038988
Barcelona
Spain
Regional office
2nd floor, C/Sardenya 229,
2nd floor, C/Sardenya 229,, 08013 Barcelona, Spain
Park
United States
Regional office
9th Floor, Etamin Block, Wing B, Prestige Tech Park, ORR,Kadubeesanahalli, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560103
London
United States
Regional office
1st floor, 262 High Holborn,
1st floor, 262 High Holborn,, Midtown, London, WC1V 7EE
Reston
United States
Regional office
Regus Center
11921 Freedom Dr, Suite 550, Reston, VA 20190
Jobs
$236k – $277k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • 10+ years exp • Mountain View • New York
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$197k – $271k per year • Remote (United States, France, Canada, Ireland, Spain) • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • New York
Python
Go
JavaScript
C++
Apache Kafka
DevOps
GCP
Azure
AWS
SLI/SLO/SLA
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$102k – $120k per year • Remote (Canada) • Full-Time • 2+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree
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Scala
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$182k – $246k per year • Remote (location not specified) • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree
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$261k – $307k per year • Remote (location not specified) • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree
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Flink
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GCP
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Platform Engineering
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$102k – $120k per year • Remote (Canada) • Full-Time • 2+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Toronto
Java
C++
Scala
Apache Kafka
DevOps
GCP
Azure
AWS
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$232k – $272k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • 8+ years exp
Apache Kafka
AI/ML
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Flink
DevOps
Terraform
GCP
Envoy
Azure
AWS
Kubernetes
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DNS
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$285k – $342k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • 8+ years exp
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LLM
LLM Guardrails
Agentic Workflows
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Platform Engineering
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$127k – $149k per year • In office • Full-Time • 4+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Toronto
Java
C++
Scala
Apache Kafka
DevOps
GCP
Azure
AWS
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$176k – $230k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • 8+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Boston • Chicago • Portland • Dallas
Python
Go
Java
C++
Apache Kafka
AI/ML
Flink
DevOps
GCP
Azure
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
SLI/SLO/SLA
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$232k – $272k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • 8+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Washington
Druid
ClickHouse
Apache Kafka
StarRocks
AI/ML
AI Agents
Flink
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$193k – $227k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • 6+ years exp
Apache Kafka
AI/ML
Flink
DevOps
Terraform
GCP
Envoy
Azure
AWS
Kubernetes
Service Mesh
DNS
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