Overview
Founded
12 years ago
Sep 23, 2014
Employees
3,000
TrueUp
Rank
#376
Valuation
Not available
Company type
Public (acquired by IBM)
Related entities
Confluent is a Data streaming (Apache Kafka) company with 50 job openings. 3,000 people work at Confluent. The company was founded in 2014.
Jobs
Open jobs
50
Top Job Categories
Jobs
1.
Engineering (Software)
34
(68%)
2.
Product Management
10
(20%)
3.
IT & Business Systems
3
(6%)
4.
Marketing & Growth
2
(4%)
5.
Artificial Intelligence
1
(2%)
Top Job Locations
Jobs
1.
๐ Remote
45
(90%)
2.
๐บ๐ธ United States
22
(44%)
3.
๐ฎ๐ณ India
13
(26%)
4.
๐จ๐ฆ Canada
7
(14%)
5.
๐ฌ๐ง United Kingdom
4
(8%)
Top Tech/Tools Mentioned
Jobs
1.
React
50
(100%)
2.
Kafka
31
(62%)
3.
AWS
28
(56%)
4.
Azure
27
(54%)
5.
Google Cloud
27
(54%)
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
Employees
3,000
Confluent Org Chart

Rankings and awards
Forbes Top 250 Living Innovators
Neha Narkhede
2026
Fortune Future 50
2025
Deloitte Technology Fast 500
2024
Wall Street Journal Best-Managed Companies
2023
Deloitte Technology Fast 500
2023
Layoffs
Employee reported layoffs
Mar 2026 ยท 3 months ago
800 impacted25%
Open source
Open source atย core
Kafka
Top open source projects
โ
32.7K
kafka
โ
302
ksql
Policies
Remote work policy
Remote work is common
Open jobs that are remote
90% (45 jobs)
H1B sponsorships (2025)
138
TrueUp
Rank
#84
External research
Jun 2021
Index Ventures
Jan 2019
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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