Customer Success Engineer, Redpanda Data
$175-206k
AI data infrastructure for the Enterprise
Open for applications
AI data infrastructure for the Enterprise
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$175-206k
101-200 employees
Company mission
To build the best present and future of streaming data.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of prior experience in a customer facing role working hands on with distributed systems technologies similar to Redpanda
- Experience with creating blog content and/or documentation on the production use cases and solutions
- Outstanding consulting skills, able to easily context switch between internal teams and customers, from code to whiteboard, from support to engineering
- Comfortable developing/prototyping solutions in many different languages (e.g., Java, Python, Go, and Javascript)
- Experience working with distributed systems such as Kafka, Spark, Hadoop, Cassandra, etc
- Good understanding of security technology (TLS, SASL, Kerberos, OAuth, OIDC etc.)
- Knowledge of different cloud vendors ( AWS, GCP and Azure)
- An Understanding of the fundamentals of high availability and disaster recovery and are able to design HA/DR solutions to meet customer needs and constraints
- Passion for working on complex technical problems and have a strong understanding of modern data infrastructures and streaming technologies
- Strong ability to build relationships with our partners, customers, and open-source users
- Collaborative spirit and enjoy making sure each team gets customer feedback to provide great customer experience
- Flexibility to travel to meet customers, attend events or conferences (up to 25%)
- Experience with Kubernetes or Ansible a plus
What the job involves
- Come and join our rapidly growing Customer Success Engineering team
- As a Solutions Architect, you will help us ensure the success of Redpanda customers
- This could range from running workshops with customers to getting them up and running on Redpanda products, and/or helping to architect a full end-to-end data streaming system with Redpanda as the core solution
- Spend time working with our products to build new partner or technology integrations, use cases, and automation capabilities with our customers
- Be prolific in sharing content and best practices both internally and externally
- Work alongside the Customer Success team to onboard new customers and work with existing customers to drive their success and excellence
- Design and implement production-ready streaming architectures that solve customer business problems and meet their performance, reliability, and scalability requirements
- Partner with Redpanda product management, engineering, and support teams to solve customer challenges and improve customer experience
- Identify and resolve technical barriers to production readiness, performance optimization, and expanded use cases
- Build tooling, automation and other technical assets that can be re-used by multiple customers to improve their Redpanda experience
Our take
When dealing with real-time data streaming workloads, the simpler the infrastructure the better. Redpanda was developed as an alternative to the complex industry standard, Apache Kafka (which needed to be used in tandem with ZooKeeper). Redpanda’s Kafka-compatible platform increases businesses’ operational efficiency by allowing them to switch to a single platform.
With its platform running on hundreds of thousands of machines, Redpanda supports users to run the software that they’ve already invested in while addressing and eliminating past pain points. Building on its success with data streaming, the company is now pioneering the "Agentic Data Plane", a new AI infrastructure feature that enables enterprises to connect AI agents with their data and systems.
With this new direction, Redpanda ensures it remains a key player in the industry - as it supports the new endeavours of its established customer base. Having raised strong funding in the past, the company has continued to expand marketing and R&D efforts to increase its reach and support its growth plans moving forward.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Apr 2025
$100m
SERIES D
Jun 2023
$100m
SERIES C
Total funding: $265.5m
Company benefits
- Remote first: We’re a remote-first company that puts humans first. We advocate for working wherever you're most productive
- Comprehensive healthcare: We’ve got you covered with a mix of plans ranging from fully-paid medical, dental and vision, to premium coverage
- 401(k) matching: Our 401(k) plans let you save for your future. And for our US and UK employees — we match
- Unlimited PTO: Take time to relax and recharge. Option to select region-specific holidays. Our vacation policy puts you in control
- Home office & education reimbursement: $1,000 to gear-up your home office, $50 towards each wifi bill, $500 to invest in your learning and development annually
- Redpanda swag: Hands down the coolest swag in our industry! Your family will steal it. Guaranteed
Company HQ
Inner Richmond, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Alexander Gallego
(Founder & CEO)Founder & previous CTO of Concord Systems, Inc. Previous Principal Software Engineer at Akamai Technologies, and was a Software Engineer at both YeildMo and FactSet Research Systems. Also worked as a REU - Student Researcher for the Polytechnic Institute of New York Univeristy.
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