Principal Engineer, Engineering AI Productivity

Confluent
United States
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 285,000 - 342,000 annuallyFunction: Data Science & Machine LearningExperience: 8+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Leadership","Problem-solving","Cross-functional collaboration"]

Strategic, hands-on technical leader driving Confluent’s internal agentic AI capabilities and automated decisioning systems to boost R&D productivity. Partners across Engineering, Security, and IT to scale AI usage, augment developers, automate routine tasks, and orchestrate AI-driven workflows that unlock new usage patterns and measurable value.

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Principal Engineer, Engineering AI Productivity

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Job Summary

Strategic, hands-on technical leader driving Confluent’s internal agentic AI capabilities and automated decisioning systems to boost R&D productivity. Partners across Engineering, Security, and IT to scale AI usage, augment developers, automate routine tasks, and orchestrate AI-driven workflows that unlock new usage patterns and measurable value.
Location: United States
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Data Science & Machine Learning

Key Responsibilities

  • •Define and evangelize the AI and agentic flows strategy — aligning business metrics, engineering needs, and platform opportunities
  • •Build a roadmap for introducing agentic automation features, smart assistants, and AI-driven workflows across all aspects of engineering
  • •Identify and resolve bottlenecks across the entire product and software development life cycle
  • •Partner with Engineering, Trust and Security to integrate AI capabilities responsibly and at scale
  • •Operationalize AI adoption internally and share use cases externally; drive complex cross-team projects requiring multi-stakeholder alignment; raise the bar for code/architectural quality across engineering
  • •Lead the delivery of core agentic workflows that improves productivity across engineering; balance 60% execution and 40% strategy setting; drive measurable adoption of AI tooling
  • •Define and adopt governance, ethical frameworks, guardrails, and quality metrics for AI behavior and automated flows; define KPIs (AI-driven usage lift, automation ROI)
  • •Participate in external forums and evolve as the technology landscape shifts; write internal playbooks for building and scaling agentic outcomes

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 285,000 - 342,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •8+ years driving strategic productivity initiatives, ideally in SaaS/Cloud platforms or developer tools with some proven experience in AI initiatives
  • •Proven expert in building distributed systems and the infrastructure to support them
  • •Strong leadership: ability to lead cross-functional teams and influence senior stakeholders without direct authority
  • •Hands-on experience with AI/ML platforms, including LLM integration and workflow automation, with governance
  • •Ability to tie technical efforts directly to business KPIs (adoption, retention, revenue impact) and communicate impact clearly
Experience:8+ yearsSaaSCloudDeveloper toolsAILLMDistributed systems
Skills:CommunicationLeadershipProblem-solvingCross-functional collaboration
Languages:English
Tech Stack:LLMAIDistributed systemsWorkflow automation

Company Brief

Confluent
Provides a cloud-native data streaming platform built on Apache Kafka that enables organizations to harness real-time data for event streaming, analytics, and AI applications across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
Industry: Data Infrastructure
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 500M to 1B
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Mountain View, United States
Founded: 2014
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