2025 Technical Program Manager Intern

Description

With Confluent, organizations can harness the full power of continuously flowing data to innovate and win in the modern digital world. We have a purpose that drives us to do better every day – we're creating an entirely new category within data infrastructure - data streaming. This technology will allow every organization to create experiences and use the power of data in ways that profoundly impact the way we all live. This impact is our purpose and drives us to do better every day.

One Confluent. One team. One Data Streaming Platform.

Data Connects Us.

About the Role:

As a Technical Program Manager Intern in the engineering organization you will play a critical role in fulfilling the engineering vision to build, deliver, and operate highly scalable streaming infrastructure and the surrounding product ecosystem.  You should be comfortable and experienced in driving and delivering highly complex projects on time. These projects will span across multiple teams, functions and geographies.

Tech in Texas! Austin is a Confluent early career engineering hub. Your internship will be a hybrid working model that introduces you to Confluent's culture and enables faster learning, onboarding, and coaching.

• At the time of your start date, you will be required to be located in the location on your offer letter.
• You and your fellow interns will have access to office space to collaborate in person for a required two days a week.  
• This internship requires a working, reliable internet connection and a quiet, dedicated workspace. You will be required to work from your Austin-based home location three times per week.
• A $3,500 USD pre-taxed lump sum payment for a housing stipend at the start of your internship.
• A travel reimbursement (if required) for roundtrip airline flights (to and from the location of your internship to your home location) or driving mileage reimbursement.  
• If you receive a return offer at the end of the internship, you will be based in Austin, Texas.

What You Will Do:

• Work with stakeholders to drive cross cutting and/or critical initiatives for the company.
• Drive process and tooling improvements
• Ensure that we are able to deliver projects on time.
• Proactively identify and resolve roadblocks/challenges affecting projects.
• Train and help other leaders to become better in program management.
• Make technical decisions to keep projects running on time.
• Work with Engineering, Product and Security leadership to streamline and drive our projects on a predictable schedule
• Run cross-functional meetings and drive decision making around schedule adjustments, bug triage and internal and external partner/customer delivery.
• Act as a communications liaison between technical and non-technical colleagues
• Lead technical design and architecture discussions across cross-functional teams

What You Will Bring:

• Pursuing a Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, Math, or a related technical field with a graduation date between December 2025- August 2026.
• Smart, humble, and empathetic
• Have a strong sense of teamwork and put team’s and company’s interests first
• Driven and excited about the challenges of a fast-paced, innovative software startup environment and GSD!

Come As You Are

At Confluent, equality is a core tenet of our culture. We are committed to building an inclusive global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences. The more diverse we are, the richer our community and the broader our impact. Employment decisions are made on the basis of job-related criteria without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other classification protected by applicable law.

At Confluent, we are committed to providing competitive pay and benefits that are in line with industry standards. This position has a fixed salary of Bachelors $41/hr, Masters $45/hr, and PhD $50/hr and includes a housing stipend.

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