Senior Software Engineer, Redpanda Data

• At least 5 years of relevant professional experience working on performance-critical systems
• Expert-level knowledge of modern C++ (ideally C++17 or C++20), including STL, memory management, and performance-oriented programming patterns
• Strong algorithmic foundation with proven ability to design and optimize complex data- processing algorithms
• Hands-on experience profiling, benchmarking, and performance tuning of production systems in Linux environments
• Deep understanding of parallel computing and concurrent programming, multi-threaded architectures, and synchronization primitives, along with familiarity with CPU architecture (cache hierarchies, memory bandwidth, branch prediction, instruction-level parallelism)
• Experience working on deeply technical systems involving scalability, concurrency, parallelism, and correctness
• Passion for building scalable, high-performance systems through systematic profiling, benchmarking and iterative optimization
• Pride in writing robust, well-abstracted code and a collaborative mindset that values feedback and code reviews
• Experience or interest in working with a fully distributed engineering team and contributing in open-source environments
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Desirable

• We are expanding our Core Engineering team at Redpanda to build Oxla - a distributed SQL engine that enables exceptionally fast analytical operations with significantly lower infrastructure cost compared to existing alternatives.
• Oxla empowers companies to run complex SQL queries directly on massive datasets and streaming data without the complexity of traditional data pipelines. Oxla uniquely combines real-time stream processing with high-performance analytics, allowing organizations to query both historical data and live Redpanda streams through a unified SQL interface
• Work closely with engineers who care deeply about their craft, take pride in what they deliver, and uphold a strong culture of technical excellence through thoughtful code reviews and collaboration
• Design, implement, and optimize high-performance SQL query execution algorithms and distributed SQL engine components using advanced optimization techniques (SIMD, cache-aware data structures, vectorization, structure-of-arrays layouts)
• Help ensure Redpanda's core tenets of Operational Simplicity, No Data Loss, and Blazingly Fast performance remains true as we scale analytical data workloads
• Measure, profile, and optimize code to achieve industry-leading query performance across diverse hardware architectures
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product managers, designers, SREs, support, and customer success to solve challenging distributed systems problems
• Drive delivery of an ambitious technical roadmap aligned with business goals for integrating high-performance analytics into Redpanda's data streaming platform
• Write comprehensive tests and documentation to ensure code quality, long-term maintainability, and knowledge sharing across the team
• Help shape Redpanda’s future while continuing to learn and grow as an engineer