18h ago
Principal Engineer, Tableflow
East Coast Region, United States
$274.5k-$329.4k / year
full-timelead Remotesoftware
🛠 Tech Stack
💼 About This Role
You'll define technical strategy for Tableflow's storage and metadata engines, ensuring high availability and scalability across Confluent Cloud. You'll operate autonomously in ambiguous spaces, balancing technical depth with business impact.
🎯 What You'll Do
- Define and drive company-level technical strategy for critical systems
- Architect and evolve a high-performance metadata management system
- Design strategies for table schematization, materialization, and compaction
- Build and maintain multi-tenant, highly available infrastructure
📋 Requirements
- Proven track record leading architecture of large-scale distributed storage systems
- Comprehensive knowledge of fault tolerance, consistency, scalability, cloud-native platforms
- Ability to navigate extreme ambiguity and reduce systemic complexity
- Strong ability to influence executives and stakeholders
✨ Nice to Have
- Open-source contributions to Apache Kafka, Iceberg, or Flink
- Expertise in storage internals, runtime systems, or large-scale data infrastructure
- Deep experience with public clouds (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
🎁 Benefits & Perks
- 💰 Competitive compensation including equity
- 🏖️ Remote work
- 🧑💻 Professional development opportunities
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