Software Engineer, Connect at Redpanda Data

United States

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Not SpecifiedCompensation

Mid-level (3 to 4 years), Senior (5 to 8 years)Experience Level

Full TimeJob Type

UnknownVisa

Technology, Data StreamingIndustries

Requirements

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

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Key technologies and capabilities for this role

GoKubernetesHelmKafkaWasmOpen SourceCloud InfrastructureObservabilityResilience

Questions & Answers

Common questions about this position

What is the base salary range for this role?

The U.S. base salary range for this role is $195,000 - $2.

Is this a remote position?

This is a 100% distributed engineering role, comfortable working with a fully remote team using tools like GitHub, JIRA, Slack, Confluence, and video meetings.

What skills are required for this Software Engineer role?

Required skills include strong experience with Go, expert knowledge of at least one cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP), understanding of stream processing, passion for distributed systems, concurrency, parallelism, and correctness, plus excellent communication skills.

What is the company culture like at Redpanda?

Redpanda has a culture of doers, seasoned engineers, hackers, and builders focused on streaming data innovation, with a 100% distributed engineering team collaborating openly via GitHub and other tools.

What makes a strong candidate for this position?

A strong candidate is a self-starter passionate about distributed systems with strong Go experience, cloud expertise, stream processing knowledge, and comfort in a fully distributed team environment with excellent communication skills.

Redpanda Data

Cost-effective streaming data platform

About Redpanda Data

Redpanda offers a data streaming platform that simplifies the use of Kafka APIs, making it easier for businesses to process real-time data. It can be accessed as a fully-managed cloud service or through self-hosting, providing flexibility for users. The platform significantly reduces infrastructure costs and improves performance, claiming to lower expenses by six times while enhancing latencies and throughput. Redpanda aims to be a cost-effective and user-friendly alternative to traditional data streaming solutions, with a focus on environmental sustainability and data security.

San Francisco, CaliforniaHeadquarters

2019Year Founded

$161MTotal Funding

SERIES_CCompany Stage

Data & Analytics, Enterprise SoftwareIndustries

51-200Employees

Benefits

Remote Work Options

Flexible Work Hours

Risks

Increased competition from new Kafka-compatible solutions could erode Redpanda's market share.

Integration challenges from the Benthos acquisition may disrupt service delivery.

Reliance on BYOC model exposes Redpanda to risks from varying cloud provider policies.

Differentiation

Redpanda offers a Kafka API-compatible platform with reduced complexity and cost.

The platform supports both fully-managed cloud service and self-hosted deployment options.

Redpanda's environmentally friendly design reduces compute, storage, and bandwidth consumption.

Upsides

Redpanda's acquisition of Benthos enhances its platform with advanced stream processing features.

The partnership with Ockam positions Redpanda as a leader in secure data streaming.

Redpanda Serverless offers a flexible, pay-as-you-go model appealing to startups and small businesses.

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