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.
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