Senior Engineering Manager – Experience Foundations

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About the role

  • Senior Engineering Manager leading Experience Foundations team at Confluent, overseeing security, networking, and billing UI domains while shaping engineering practices and infrastructure.

Responsibilities

  • Establish clear, reusable patterns and best practices for UI engineers developing security and networking code
  • Elevate the impact of all UI engineers across multiple product teams (Governance, Flink, Kafka, Connect, Tableflow)
  • Take a depth-first, hands-on approach to understanding systems and unblocking teams
  • Go deep in domain areas—understand the technical intricacies of networking protocols, security models, and billing systems to make sound architectural decisions
  • Drive the evolution of Experience Foundations infrastructure from UI-only to supporting the entire Experience organization, partner with the existing Engineering Manager to shape and execute the foundations roadmap
  • Own PM and Design partnerships for Security, Networking, and Billing domains
  • Ensure smooth execution and delivery of product initiatives across these verticals
  • Bridge technical and product perspectives to drive aligned outcomes
  • Translate domain complexity into clear execution plans
  • Challenge product specs when necessary to ensure technical feasibility
  • Partner with product teams across the portfolio to ensure patterns meet their needs
  • Communicate progress, risks, and trade-offs transparently to senior leadership
  • Collaborate with existing engineering leadership to build cohesive team strategy, including existing manager in the foundations space as your direct report
  • Mentor and develop engineers across multiple disciplines and experience levels
  • Foster a culture of ownership, excellence, and continuous improvement
  • Create leverage by empowering engineers with patterns, tools, and knowledge
  • Build strong connections between Experience Foundations and application teams
  • Champion developer productivity through AI tooling adoption, test automation, and improved engineering processes

Requirements

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience with 4+ years in engineering management
  • Strong hands-on technical background with ability to dive deep into complex systems
  • Deep frontend engineering expertise: Strong understanding of modern web development (React, TypeScript, component design systems)
  • Proven ability to distill complex technical domains into clear patterns and best practices
  • Experience creating reusable patterns/frameworks adopted across multiple teams or products
  • Track record of elevating team capabilities through mentorship and knowledge sharing
  • Demonstrated success partnering with Product and Design to drive execution
  • Experience managing or collaborating closely with other engineering managers
  • Strong communication skills and ability to influence across organizational boundaries
  • Experience managing multiple product areas or technical domains simultaneously.

Benefits

  • Offers Equity

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

CA$271,600 - CA$319,100 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

KafkaReactTypeScriptGo

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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