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Principal Engineer, Tableflow
Location
New York
Posted
117 days ago
Salary
$274.5K - $329.4K / year
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Principal Engineer, Tableflow
Confluent
• Define and drive company-level technical strategy for critical systems, ensuring long-term innovation for Tableflow’s storage and metadata engines. • Architect and evolve a high-performance, metadata management system that supports low latency updates and efficient query planning. • Design and implement innovative strategies for table schematization, materialization, and compaction at a massive scale. • Build and maintain multi-tenant, highly available infrastructure for background computational tasks, ensuring the platform is optimized for scalability, reliability, and resilience. • Establish and evangelize engineering standards, architectural patterns, and technical frameworks adopted across the organization. • Partner with executives, product management, and engineering leaders to align technical vision with business objectives. • Mentor senior and staff-level engineers, growing future technical leaders and shaping a culture of engineering excellence and open-source contribution. • Lead contributions to relevant open-source projects like Apache Iceberg and represent Confluent externally through technical talks and thought leadership.
Job Requirements
- A proven track record of leading the architecture and delivery of large-scale distributed storage systems with company-level impact.
- Comprehensive knowledge of fault tolerance, consistency, scalability, and cloud-native platforms.
- Ability to navigate extreme ambiguity, reduce systemic complexity, and anticipate industry trends to design systems for the next 3–5 years.
- Strong ability to influence executives and stakeholders while fostering a collaborative environment across multiple teams.
- Demonstrated ability to move from high-level vision to detailed technical implementation and delivery.
Benefits
- Offers Equity
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