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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
#379
Valuation
Not available
Company type
Public (acquired by IBM)
Related entities

Confluent is a Data streaming (Apache Kafka) company with 47 job openings. 3,000 people work at Confluent. The company was founded in 2014.

Jobs

Open jobs
47
Top Job Categories
Jobs
1.
Engineering (Software)
32
(68%)
2.
Product Management
10
(21%)
3.
IT & Business Systems
2
(4%)
4.
Marketing & Growth
2
(4%)
5.
Artificial Intelligence
1
(2%)
Top Job Locations
Jobs
1.
๐ŸŒŽ Remote
43
(91%)
2.
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
21
(45%)
3.
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ India
13
(28%)
4.
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Canada
5
(11%)
5.
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง United Kingdom
4
(9%)
Top Tech/Tools Mentioned
Jobs
1.
React
47
(100%)
2.
Kafka
29
(62%)
3.
AWS
26
(55%)
4.
Azure
26
(55%)
5.
Google Cloud
26
(55%)

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
Neha Narkhede
2026
#155
Fortune Future 50 logo
Fortune Future 50
2025
#49
Deloitte Technology Fast 500 logo
Deloitte Technology Fast 500
2024
Wall Street Journal Best-Managed Companies logo
Wall Street Journal Best-Managed Companies
2023
#621
Deloitte Technology Fast 500 logo
Deloitte Technology Fast 500
2023
#420
Confluent logoMore rankings

Layoffs

Employee reported layoffs
Mar 2026 ยท 3 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
91% (43 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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Valuation
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Trajectory Score
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