Senior Technical Program Manager - Confluent (Remote)

Role Overview

As a Senior Technical Program Manager (TPM), you will lead high-priority, “cannot-fail” engineering programs at Confluent. You’ll drive cross-functional alignment across Engineering, Product, Finance, and Security to deliver foundational platform initiatives with predictable outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Drive complex initiatives: Lead end-to-end delivery for large-scale technical programs (e.g., FedRAMP, compliance readiness, or platform-wide architecture shifts).
• Technical liaison: Translate business goals into technical requirements and communicate architecture trade-offs to VP/C-suite stakeholders.
• Operational excellence: Set program management standards including milestones, KPIs, risk mitigation, and regular status reporting.
• Strategic alignment: Coordinate with engineering and product leadership on roadmaps, cross-team dependencies, and resource allocation.
• Stakeholder management: Facilitate decisions across global/distributed teams and manage internal/external partner relationships.

Requirements

• 5+ years in a technical program management role in cloud-native or high-scale software environments.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with Confluent Platform or Apache Kafka.
• Experience building dashboards/reports using JQL, SQL, BigQuery, or Data Studio.
• Background working with SRE, platform engineering, or infrastructure teams.