Engineering Manager, Redpanda Data
Cloud
$150-210k
CO, TX, CA and NY only
AI data infrastructure for the Enterprise
Job no longer available
AI data infrastructure for the Enterprise
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
$150-210k
CO, TX, CA and NY only
101-200 employees
Company mission
To build the best present and future of streaming data.
Role
Who you are
- Passionate about building world-class cloud native systems
- Excited to roll up your sleeves and do what it takes to deliver objective results
- Eager to thrive with the thrill and ethos of a fast growing startup
- Accountable, bring a sense of ownership and are self-driven
- Experience leading or managing cloud engineering teams
- Experience developing a strategy and roadmap for your teams
- An entrepreneurial spirit - as we expect each team in Redpanda to organize themselves like a startup
- 7+ years of experience in software development and delivery
- 3+ years of experience in managing software developers
- Previous experience growing a team to 15 people
- Reasonably current understanding of Go, and Kubernetes, being able to review pull requests and make small contributions to non-critical areas
- Comfortable working with a 100% distributed engineering team, collaborating on GitHub, in the open and a self starter
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Kindly highlight if applicable to you:
- Knowledge of cloud saas product development and the inherent challenges
- Operational experience running a saas product
- Remote team management
What the job involves
- Work with and guide a distributed engineering team
- Together with the rest of engineering leadership and product management, craft and execute the company’s technology vision and strategy
- Make sure the team is empowered and can demonstrate a strong sense of ownership and belonging
- Motivate and enable the team to contribute towards organizational success
- Give frequent and actionable feedback to support your team’s personal development
- Create an environment where the team is aligned with company goals, and decision-making is done collaboratively
- Continuously strive to improve how the team works and measure outcomes
- Lead the recruiting and hiring process of the team
- Participate in regular performance reviews
- Mentor team members and collaborate with them on personal and career growth
- Bring up difficult and/or systemic challenges and impediments to the attention of your manager
- Actively discuss strategic topics with peers and Directors to help shape engineering’s environment
- Track progress, assess risks, and actively communicate contingency and mitigation plans for the team
- Provide career development guidance and structure to members of the team
- Drive evaluation and management of team members’ performance
- Manage execution of projects that the team takes on
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.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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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