Overview
Founded
12 years ago
Sep 23, 2014
Employees
3,000
TrueUp
Rank
#260
Valuation
Not available
Company type
Public (acquired by IBM)
Related entities
Confluent is a Data streaming (Apache Kafka) company with 31 job openings. 3,000 people work at Confluent. The company was founded in 2014.
Jobs
Open jobs
31
Top Job Categories
Jobs
1.
Engineering (Software)
18
(58%)
2.
Product Management
9
(29%)
3.
Marketing & Growth
2
(6%)
4.
Artificial Intelligence
1
(3%)
5.
Business Operations & Program Management
1
(3%)
Top Job Locations
Jobs
1.
🌎 Remote
29
(94%)
2.
🇺🇸 United States
19
(61%)
3.
🇨🇦 Canada
4
(13%)
4.
🇮🇳 India
3
(10%)
5.
🇺🇸 New York City
2
(6%)
Top Tech/Tools Mentioned
Jobs
1.
React
31
(100%)
2.
Kafka
20
(65%)
3.
AWS
18
(58%)
4.
Azure
18
(58%)
5.
Google Cloud
18
(58%)
Products
Notable customers
Culture
Employee sentiment
Would recommend company
65%
600+ reviews
Sources: TrueUp, Glassdoor, Blind
Worse than 50% of tech co's
Approve of CEO
Jay Kreps
75%
Sources: TrueUp, Glassdoor, Blind
People
Confluent Org Chart
Rankings and awards
Forbes Top 250 Living Innovators #155
Neha Narkhede
2026
Deloitte Technology Fast 500 #453
2025
Fortune Future 50 #49
2025
Deloitte Technology Fast 500 #456
2024
Wall Street Journal Best-Managed Companies #621
2023
Layoffs
Employee reported layoffs
Mar 2026 · 4 months ago
800 impacted25%
Open source
Open source at core
Kafka
Top open source projects
kafka
32.8 K
ksql
304
Policies
Remote work policy
Remote work is common
Open jobs that are remote
94% (29 jobs)
H1B sponsorships (2025)
138
TrueUp
Rank
#84
External research
Top posts
History
IPO date
Jun 21, 2021
5 years ago
Top owners at IPO
15.3% - Benchmark
13.0% - Index
12.6% - Jay Kreps
10.6% - Jun Rao
9.3% - Sequoia Capital
1.6% - Neha Narkhede
1.5% - Steffan Tomlinson
1.3% - Erica Schultz
Founder ownership at IPO
24.8%
Implied founder equity split
51% - Jay Kreps
43% - Jun Rao
6% - Neha Narkhede
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