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Confluent is hiring. 272 roles open right now.

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HQMountain View, CA
Posted (30d)8

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[01] HIRING NOW

Live from their career page.

Numbers refresh daily. Every role tracked here was pulled straight from Confluent's ATS, not an aggregator.

Open roles

272

Posted (30d)

8

+0% vs prior

Posted (7d)

3

Posted range

$176K – 215K

Base, from posted ranges

Most-hired roles · last 90 days

Software Engineer
8 roles
Director
4 roles
Software Engineer II
4 roles
Software Engineer - Connect Platform
2 roles
Customer Success Technical Architect
1 role

[02] HIRING PULSE

Confluent's hiring pulse.

We re-scan Confluent's career page every few minutes and keep the full posting history, so these counts come from the board itself, not an aggregator.

Steady3 postings this week vs a baseline of 2.6/week

Posted (7d)

3

Posted (30d)

8

Posted (90d)

33

Scanned every few minutes · newest tracked posting May 21, 2026

[03] COMPENSATION

What Confluent pays.

Solid but rarely exceptional. Senior engineers might see $200K to $350K at successful enterprise companies.

By level · reported by current and former Confluent employees on Levels.fyi

Data Scientist

Source: Levels.fyi
LevelTotalBaseEquityBonusN
L3$190K$190K$0K$0K2
L2$287K$173K$98K$17K2

Product Manager

Source: Levels.fyi
LevelTotalBaseEquityBonusN
L3$239K$183K$48K$9K4
L2$241K$164K$64K$13K2
L4$351K$223K$115K$14K12
L5$449K$244K$195K$10K5

Software Engineer

Source: Levels.fyi
LevelTotalBaseEquityBonusN
L2$187K$141K$39K$6K10
L3$252K$185K$67K$1K10
L4$324K$213K$111K$0K11
L5a$342K$199K$135K$8K19
L5b$517K$246K$256K$14K8
L6a$733K$306K$413K$14K4

Source: Levels.fyi · median across reported samples

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[04] IN THEIR OWN WORDS

How Confluent pitches itself.

Build Faster. Scale Smarter.

New in Confluent Cloud: Making Data & Pipelines Accessible for AI-Ready Streaming | Learn More

Stream, connect, process, and govern your data with a unified Data Streaming Platform built on the heritage of Apache Kafka® and Apache Flink®.

Source: confluent.io

[05] VISA SPONSORSHIP

Hiring international candidates.

Confluent has a documented USCIS H-1B petition history.

Sponsors H1B · USCIS-confirmed petitioner

Source: USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub. Classifications: yes (5+ approvals), conditional (1-4), no (0).

[06] WHERE THEY'RE HIRING

The cities Confluent is hiring in.

Every active role mapped to its posted city. Use this to gauge whether Confluentis actually hiring where you live, or skewed somewhere you'd need to relocate.

Top cities by open roles

Barcelona, Catalonia, ES
6 roles
Sydney, New South Wales, AU
6 roles
Austin, Texas
5 roles
Ontario, California
5 roles
Tokyo, Tokyo, JP
5 roles
Singapore, SG
4 roles
São Paulo, São Paulo, BR
3 roles
Toronto, Ontario, CA
3 roles

Remote: 108 positions

+14 more locations

[07] OFFICES

Where Confluent works.

Confluent office locations

© Mapbox © OpenStreetMap

Headquartered at 899 W Evelyn Ave, Mountain View, CA 94041-1225. So you know where you'd report before you apply.

Office data © OpenStreetMap contributors

[08] LAYOFF HISTORY

What past rounds looked like.

Confluent has had 1 reported layoff round on public record since 2020. We list these because candidates routinely tell us they wish they had known before applying. Context, not a verdict.

Reported rounds

1

Headcount cut

221

Most recent

Jan 26, 2023

221 roles (~8% of staff)

Source

Source: Layoffs.fyi, public record

[09] POSTING PATTERNS

How Confluent actually posts.

We re-scan Confluent's career page every few minutes and keep the full history. That lets us spot reposts and timing patterns most candidates never see.

Monday is hiring day at Confluent (59% of new postings).

[10] KEY FACTS

Listed on

CFLT

Nasdaq

Data: Wikidata (CC0) · Q94758727

[11] ABOUT

What Confluent does, and who fits.

We put data in motion with our real-time streaming platform.

Confluent provides a cloud-native data streaming platform that enables organizations to react faster and build smarter by streaming data in near real-time. Our services support mission-critical workloads and enhance data governance, ensuring that data is always available and reliable.

Founded

HQ

Mountain View

Founder

Neha Narkhede

Employees

Source: Wikidata · QID Q94758727

[12] RESEARCH OUTPUT

What Confluent publishes.

Peer-reviewed papers, preprints, and citations attributed to Confluent on OpenAlex, the open scholarly-graph index. The volume and citation count of recent work is a strong prestige signal for research-heavy roles.

2papers in the last 2 years
40 all-time3 avg citations
Most-cited papers, last 2 years
Most prolific authors, last 2 years
Nagwa Khattab · 1 paper
Luis H. Olivas-Alanis · 1 paper
Agnieszka Chmielewska-Wysocka · 1 paper

See Confluent on OpenAlex

[13] AT CONFLUENT

The honest take.

A collaborative environment where diverse perspectives are valued and everyone is encouraged to lead and grow.

WORK-LIFE

Work-life balance

Often better than startups or big tech. Enterprise companies tend to have more predictable schedules.

WHO THRIVES

Who thrives here

People who want meaningful work without startup chaos or big tech bureaucracy.

WATCH OUT

Things to watch

Some enterprise companies have slow-moving cultures and legacy codebases.

[14] CAREER GROWTH

Where Confluent takes you next.

Good learning environment for building production systems at scale.

[15] INTERVIEW PREP

Going through their loop?

We collect real questions reported by candidates plus likely questions inferred from Confluent's open roles. Skim the process, prep the questions, save the timing for actually applying.

[16] HOW TO APPLY

Your resume lands in Ashby.

Confluent uses Ashby as their applicant tracking system. When you apply, your resume drops directly into their Ashby pipeline where recruiters review candidates in arrival order.

Scoutify watches Confluent's career page continuously. New openings show up here within minutes of posting. Early applicants get more attention because most recruiters review applications in the order they arrive.

Auto-apply currently covers Greenhouse, Workday, and SmartRecruiters. For Ashby boards like Confluent's, Scoutify sends the posting to you in real time so you can be one of the first applications in.

ATS identified from the application URLs on Confluent's recent postings

[19] FAQ

Questions people ask about Confluent.

Not covered here? Email support@scoutify.com.

Does Confluent sponsor H1B visas?

Yes, Confluent does sponsor H1B visas for international candidates. This allows qualified individuals from outside the United States to apply for roles within the company, which is headquartered in Mountain View. If you are considering applying and require sponsorship, be sure to mention this in your application process.

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