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Overview

Business
Data streaming (Apache Kafka)
part of
IBM logo
IBM
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 49 job openings. 3,000 people work at Confluent. The company was founded in 2014.

Jobs

Open jobs
49
Top Job Categories
Jobs
1.
Engineering (Software)
26
(53%)
2.
Product Management
9
(18%)
3.
Marketing & Growth
2
(4%)
4.
Artificial Intelligence
1
(2%)
5.
Business Operations & Program Management
1
(2%)
Top Job Locations
Jobs
1.
๐ŸŒŽ Remote
37
(76%)
2.
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
21
(43%)
3.
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ India
8
(16%)
4.
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Canada
5
(10%)
5.
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ New York City
2
(4%)
Top Tech/Tools Mentioned
Jobs
1.
React
39
(80%)
2.
Kafka
25
(51%)
3.
AWS
23
(47%)
4.
Azure
23
(47%)
5.
Google Cloud
23
(47%)

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
Source: Workforce.ai
Employee growth
-2.3%
past 12 months
Source: Workforce.ai
Confluent Org Chart
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Rankings and awards

Forbes Top 250 Living Innovators logo
Forbes Top 250 Living Innovators #155

Neha Narkhede

2026

Deloitte Technology Fast 500 logo
Deloitte Technology Fast 500 #453

2025

Fortune Future 50 logo
Fortune Future 50 #49

2025

Deloitte Technology Fast 500 logo
Deloitte Technology Fast 500 #456

2024

Wall Street Journal Best-Managed Companies logo
Wall Street Journal Best-Managed Companies #621

2023

Layoffs

Employee reported layoffs

Mar 2026 ยท 4 months ago

800 impacted25%

Jan 2023 ยท 3 years ago

221 impacted8%

Open source

Open source atย core
Kafka
Top open source projects
โ˜…
32.8K
kafka
โ˜…
304
ksql

Policies

Remote work policy
Remote work is common
Open jobs that are remote
94% (46 jobs)
H1B sponsorships (2025)
138
TrueUp
Rank
#84

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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Job openings
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Employees
3,000
Founded
12 years ago
Valuation
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Trajectory Score
-
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