Confluent, the data-streaming software company founded around Apache Kafka, employs roughly 2,800 people worldwide. The company recorded about 460 new hires against 277 departures, resulting in net workforce expansion. Steady growth underpins Confluent’s strategy to scale its streaming platform and broaden customer adoption across industries. The headcount mix shows meaningful investment in both product development and customer-facing functions.
Engineering is the largest function at Confluent with just over 1,090 employees, reflecting the technical depth required to build and maintain its streaming data platform. Sales and Support follows at around 740 professionals who focus on revenue generation and customer success. Mid-sized groups in Marketing & Product, Business Management, and Human Resources collectively drive market positioning and internal operations, while Finance, IT, Legal, Operations, and other specialist teams round out the staff. This distribution indicates balanced attention to innovation, go-to-market execution, and corporate governance.
Confluent’s biggest employee hub is the San Francisco Bay Area, home to nearly 390 staff members. Additional large concentrations of talent are located in Bengaluru, Austin, Seattle, London, and New York, each hosting between 70 and 200 employees. Smaller yet strategic teams operate from Boston, Singapore, Barcelona, and a sizeable remote or "Other" cohort that totals more than 1,600 people. The global footprint blends engineering centers with customer-facing offices in major technology and financial markets.