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Principal Engineer, Engineering AI Productivity
Confluent
Remote · United StatesSalary not disclosedfull-timeConfluent Careers
We’re seeking a strategic and hands-on technical leader to define and drive Confluent’s internal agentic AI capabilities, and adoption of smart, automated decisioning systems for R&D productivity. In this role, you will partner across Engineering, Security, and IT to scale AI usage across our platform to accelerate value for customers and the business.
Responsibilities
- Strategy & Vision
- 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.
- Cross-Functional Leadership
- 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
- Continuously raise the bar for code/architectural quality across engineering
- Execution & Delivery
Languages
- Work format
- Remote
- Seniority
- Lead
- Posted
- 13 May 2026
- Last verified
- 10 Oct 2026
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