About the Role:
The Core engineering team’s mission is to create the best data streaming platform. The team consists of known experts in foundational technologies such as Raft/consensus, transactions, WASM and distributed storage, who have come together to build a differentiated highly performant product with compelling traction in the market. The Core engineering team works closely across multiple functions at Redpanda and our work directly drives key business metrics through various SaaS and self-managed offerings.
Redpanda continues to mindfully grow and so are we. We are looking for a software engineer who will help play a big role in expanding Redpanda’s footprint with enterprise-focused features and functionality related to next-generation streaming platform, security, performance and scalability.
You are:
- A general technologist at heart with a “I can figure it out” approach to challenges
- A natural collaborator, ready to bring your own ideas as well as support others’ innovations
- Looking to further develop your skills in building scalable and performant systems
- Autonomous, able to work asynchronously while also communicating effectively with team members
- Committed to lifelong learning
You will:
- Build and maintain the customer-facing interfaces provided by Redpanda
- Analyze and drive for parity with the Kafka API
- Work to enhance both user experience and overall system performance
- Develop supporting infrastructure to enable other core teams to deliver features effectively
- Implement security and access control functions
- Enable new customer-centric capabilities that focus on serving large enterprise customers
- Contribute to the overall success of Redpanda by ensuring our core tenets of Operational Simplicity, No Data Loss and Blazingly Fast remain true as we push the envelope on scalability while expanding our target addressable market through features and integrations
You have:
- 3+ years of substantial and relevant experience in software development
- Strong understanding and experience of C++, Rust or other systems languages (ideally modern C++17 or C++20), including profiling and benchmarking
- Excellent written communication skills
Nice to have:
- Knowledge of and experience integrating auth{n,z} protocols such as: OAuth (OpenID), kerberos, SASL, LDAP, SCRAM, TLS, etc
- Experience with development of high throughput real-time distributed platforms
- Some working knowledge of kubernetes and systems maintenance
- Metrics development including open telemetry, prometheus and Grafana
- Experience developing open source software
- Data streaming application experience
U.S. base salary range for this role is $185,000 - $218,000 (CA, NY, WA) and $177,000 - $209,000 (other US locations). Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. As a remote-first company, we strive to consider each candidate's job-related skills, location, experience, relevant education or training to determine individual base salary. Your talent partner will share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
Redpanda is used by Fortune 1000 enterprises pushing hundreds of terabytes a day, as well as by the solo dev prototyping a React application on her laptop. Think of it as a streaming data API platform that scales with you from the smallest projects to petabytes of data distributed across the globe.
Join Redpanda if you’d enjoy being part of a fast-moving, 100% remote organization with team members around the globe and a culture based on trust, transparency, communication, and kindness.
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