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Redpanda Data

Remote Senior Software Engineer - Core Enterprise

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Redpanda Data

Poland, US · Full-time · $164,000 – $229,000

About this role

Redpanda pioneers the Agentic Data Plane (ADP), a new AI infrastructure category for securely connecting AI agents with enterprise data and systems. Built on a multi-modal data streaming engine, it empowers real-time agentic applications with speed, autonomy, and precision. Global leaders including Activision Blizzard, Cisco, and Moody's process hundreds of terabytes daily on Redpanda.

The Core engineering team builds the best data streaming platform, leveraging experts in Raft/consensus, transactions, WASM, and distributed storage. This team drives key business metrics through SaaS and self-managed offerings while collaborating across functions. You will expand Redpanda’s enterprise footprint with features for streaming, security, performance, and scalability.

Join a diverse, people-first organization with distributed global teams, backed by Lightspeed, GV, and Haystack VC. Work closely with experts to create a highly performant product with strong market traction. The role focuses on customer-facing interfaces and enterprise capabilities.

Contribute to Redpanda's success by upholding core tenets of Operational Simplicity, No Data Loss, and Blazingly Fast. Push scalability boundaries while expanding the market through features and integrations. As a remote-first company, enjoy flexible location options.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of substantial and relevant experience in software development
  • Strong understanding and experience of C++, Rust or other systems languages (ideally modern C++17 or C++20), including profiling and benchmarking
  • Excellent written communication skills, collaboration skills, and executive function to overcome challenges
  • A lifelong commitment to learning and improving yourself
  • Knowledge of and experience integrating auth{n,z} protocols such as OAuth (OpenID), Kerberos, SASL, LDAP, SCRAM, TLS
  • Experience with development of high throughput real-time distributed platforms
  • Some working knowledge of Kubernetes and systems maintenance

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain the customer-facing interfaces provided by Redpanda
  • Analyze the Kafka API and strive for parity
  • Enhance the user experience and overall system performance
  • Implement security and access control functions critical for enterprise customers
  • Enable new customer-centric capabilities that focus on serving large enterprise customers
  • Contribute to the overall success of Redpanda by ensuring core tenets of Operational Simplicity, No Data Loss, and Blazingly Fast while pushing scalability and expanding market through features and integrations

Benefits

  • Remote-first company with flexible location
  • Distributed global teams
  • Diverse, people-first organization
  • Backed by premier venture investors Lightspeed, GV and Haystack VC