# Principal Engineer I, Governance at Confluent

- Company: Confluent
- What the company does: Stream, connect, process, and govern your data with a unified Data Streaming Platform built on the heritage of Apache Kafka® and Apache Flink®. Backed by Battery, Index and Sequoia.
- Company website: https://www.confluent.io/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: Remote, United States
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $285K to $342K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-02-18
- Apply by: 2026-10-12
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/confluent/70c593c1-96db-4f99-8e72-39d454ffec6c
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/confluent-principal-engineer-i-governance/

## About the role

Confluent's Data Streaming Platform is only as trustworthy as the schemas, metadata, and policies that govern it. As more of the platform's value shifts toward real-time processing and AI-driven decisioning, the systems that keep data well-formed, reliable, discoverable, and compliant, from the moment it's produced through every downstream consumer, become as critical to correctness as the storage and compute layers themselves.

## What they're looking for

- Belonging isn’t a perk here. It’s the baseline. We work across time zones and backgrounds, knowing the best ideas come from different perspectives. And we make space for everyone to lead, grow, and challenge what’s possible

Tags: Engineering