Senior Manager, Engineering - KORA

We are seeking a hands-on, distributed systems leader for our Kora Serverless engineering team. This team owns "Self-Balancing Clusters," the critical brain behind Confluent Cloud and Confluent Platform Kafka service. You will be responsible for the end-to-end infrastructure and intelligent algorithms that automatically manage heat and balance load, ensuring seamless scalability, elasticity, highest quality of service and zero downtime for our customers. You will be leading the team that manages a fleet of thousands of clusters across AWS, GCP, and Azure, solving some of the most complex challenges in distributed systems at a massive scale. You will be directly responsible for defining the vision, building the roadmap, and driving critical cross-team efforts to deliver on an ambitious charter.