Senior Engineering Manager, Redpanda Data
Core Enterprise
$190-255k
Salary dependent on location
AI data infrastructure for the Enterprise
Job no longer available
AI data infrastructure for the Enterprise
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
$190-255k
Salary dependent on location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To build the best present and future of streaming data.
Role
Who you are
- Experience leading or managing highly technical 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
- Strong verbal and written communication skills and demonstrated technical leadership
- 7+ years of experience in software development and delivery
- 3+ years of experience in managing software developers
- Previous experience growing a team to 15-20 people
- Reasonably current understanding of C++, C, Rust, or other systems language, including profiling and benchmarking
- Comfortable working with a 100% distributed engineering team, collaborating on GitHub, in the open and a self starter
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Knowledge of Linux filesystem internals
- Experience working on databases or other storage systems internals, such as RPC, caching, allocators, compressors, Raft, Paxos, etc.
- Previous experience managing managers
- Passionate about world-class systems software development and the value it provides
- 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
What the job involves
- Work with and guide a distributed engineering team that is solving highly complex problems around Kafka and next-gen streaming API as well as WASM (WebAssembly)
- 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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