Software Engineer, Redpanda Data
Connect
$186-230k
Salary dependent on location. Salary based in the US and may vary in further locations
Open-source data streaming platform
Be an early applicant
Open-source data streaming platform
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$186-230k
Salary dependent on location. Salary based in the US and may vary in further locations
101-200 employees
Company mission
To build the best present and future of streaming data.
Role
Who you are
- Passion for working on deeply technical projects and wanting to work on distributed systems, concurrency & parallelism, and correctness
- Strong understanding and experience of Go
- Knowledge of AI internals, limitations, and how to use AI suggestions programmatically
- Expert knowledge of at least one: AWS, Azure, GCP
- An understanding of stream processing
- Experience and are comfortable working with a 100% distributed engineering team, collaborating on GitHub, in the open and a self-starter
- Comfort working within a small team and 100% distributed engineering org collaborating on GitHub, JIRA, Slack, Confluence and video meetings
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, capable of engaging with stakeholders at all levels of the organization
Desirable
- Working knowledge of building Kubernetes operators for storage systems
- Experience building a SaaS platform
- Experience operating and using streaming platforms either as a user or provider
- Cloud engineering experience
- UI experience
What the job involves
- We are continuing to invest and grow our Go-based Connector team at Redpanda
- We are looking for a Software Engineer who is up for the challenge to not only build the systems and to lift Redpanda into the public cloud space, but also shape the technical culture that creates these systems
- In this role, you will focus on developing and maintaining our Connector ecosystem, with an emphasis on open source development
- You will collaborate closely with our Cloud and Core engineering teams to build robust and scalable systems, with an emphasis on stability and safe upgrades with zero downtime
- Contribute to our Connect open source repo
- Contribute to a Kubernetes helm chart to manage Redpanda Connect in a zero-downtime fashion
- Design new AI solutions to evolve how end-users work with streaming data
- Participate in an on-call escalation chain, help drive down problems that lead to on-call escalations, and help drive improving on-call quality of life
- Work with all engineering teams for deploying services across all of our supported clouds
- Make resilience and observability integral to the system, enabling us to run a managed, cloud-based streaming-as-a-service with >99.9% uptime
- Build & design Redpanda’s connect-in-the-cloud infrastructure with reliability and performance in mind
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.
Formerly known as Vectorized, the company launched the RedPanda in 2021, eventually renaming the company after the product. Its platform is already running on hundreds of thousands of machines, reliably enabling enterprises to continue to run the software that they’ve already invested in while addressing and eliminating past pain points with the status quo of data streaming infrastructures.
With funding under its belt, the company is expanding its marketing, research, and development, increasing its speed, reducing latencies, and adding features such as its RedPanda Cloud service. It is also focusing on limitless data retention, capturing the attention of developers, and resulting in the company’s substantial growth.
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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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