[3] After obtaining her Master's degree, Narkhede started her first job at Oracle as a software engineer.

[4][5] While working at LinkedIn in 2011, Narkhede created the Platform Apache Kafka, along with Jun Rao and Jay Kreps.

[5] She was the CTO of Confluent and later also took upon the role of chief product officer until 2020,[7] but remained as a board member.

[8] Companies such as Goldman Sachs, Netflix and Uber use the platform for data driven purposes.

[9] Narkhede and her husband co-founded Oscilar in 2021, which develops a real-time artificial intelligence-based platform to help decrease the risks involved with online transactions.