Software Engineer, Redpanda Data
Console
$177-250k
Salary dependent on candidates location
Open-source data streaming platform
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Open-source data streaming platform
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$177-250k
Salary dependent on candidates location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To build the best present and future of streaming data.
Role
Who you are
- Strong understanding and experience with Go
- Strong understanding of at least one of AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Experience working in an enterprise startup
- Strong sympathy for user experience and pain points: if one user vocalizes negative feedback, odds are ten are silently thinking the same thing
- Experience diving into large, unknown domains and being able to incrementally drive projects to success
- Excellent written communication skills
- Familiarity working with a 100% distributed engineering team, collaborating on GitHub, Slack, and Zoom
Desirable
- Existing knowledge of Kafka or the Kafka protocol
- Experience with Figma or other tools for creating mockups to communicate ideas
- Experience with Frontend work (React, Vue, Angular or similar)
- Experience writing and working with E2E test frameworks
- Experience with creating and maintaining build pipelines (GitHub Actions, Buildkite)
What the job involves
- As a Senior Software Engineer on the Redpanda Console team, you'll build intuitive, high-impact tools used by thousands of developers to simplify and streamline their interaction with Redpanda and Kafka.
- In this role, you’ll help shape a critical tool that empowers developers around the world.
- You'll own meaningful technical challenges, collaborate closely with customers and cross-functional teams, and dive deep into complex systems—all while crafting elegant, user-focused solutions.
- If you’re obsessed with developer experience, and excited to work on a fast-moving product in a remote-first environment, this role is made for you.
- If you're driven by solving real-world problems, enjoy working across disciplines, and care deeply about the people using your work, we’d love to have you help us raise the bar
- Lead and contribute to the success of Redpanda Console - a user interface and backend that is used by thousands, striving to eliminate pain points users run into when working with Redpanda and Kafka
- Work with customers, our community, as well as product, engineering and customer success teams to determine the best set of features and best ways to support key stakeholders
- Write clear documentation that allows users to learn everything they need to know to integrate Redpanda Console with their environment
- Review contributions from developers indirectly involved in the project, providing thoughtful feedback to incorporate solid code everybody is happy with
- Deeply learn the Kafka protocol and the features Redpanda provides
- Make the lives of our users easier and simpler!
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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