About the Role:

The Core engineering team’s mission is to create the best data streaming platform. The team consists of known experts in foundational technologies such as Raft/consensus, transactions, WASM and distributed storage, who have come together to build a differentiated highly performant product with compelling traction in the market. The Core engineering team works closely across multiple functions at Redpanda and our work directly drives key business metrics through various SaaS and self-managed offerings.

We are looking for a software engineer who will help play a big role in expanding Redpanda’s footprint with enterprise-focused features and functionality related to next-generation streaming platform, security, performance and scalability.

You will:

• 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 our core tenets of Operational Simplicity, No Data Loss, and Blazingly Fast remain true as we push the envelope on scalability while expanding our target addressable market through features and integrations

You have: 

• 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

Nice to have: 

• Knowledge of and experience integrating auth{n,z} protocols such as: OAuth (OpenID), kerberos, SASL, LDAP, SCRAM, TLS, etc
• Experience with development of high throughput real-time distributed platforms 
• Some working knowledge of kubernetes and systems maintenance 
• Metrics development including open telemetry, prometheus and Grafana
• Experience developing open source software 
• Data streaming application experience 

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U.S. base salary range for this role is $171,000 - 239,000 (CA, NY, WA) and  $164,000 - $229,000 (other US locations). Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. As a remote-first company, we strive to consider each candidate's job-related skills, location, experience, relevant education or training to determine individual base salary. Your talent partner will share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that Redpanda uses artificial intelligence (AI) technology to assist in the screening and assessment of applications for this position. However, all final hiring decisions are made by our human hiring team.

Vacancy Status: This job posting is for an existing vacancy.