Software Engineer

Summary

Join Redpanda, a fast-growing, 100% remote company building a streaming data platform, as a Software Engineer. You will contribute to expanding Redpanda's enterprise features, focusing on next-generation streaming, security, performance, and scalability. The role involves building and maintaining customer-facing interfaces, ensuring parity with the Kafka API, enhancing user experience, and developing supporting infrastructure. You'll work with a team of experts in foundational technologies and directly impact key business metrics. Redpanda offers a collaborative and supportive environment with a commitment to lifelong learning. The company is used by a wide range of clients, from Fortune 1000 enterprises to individual developers.

Requirements

• 3+ 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

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain the customer-facing interfaces provided by Redpanda
• Analyze and drive for parity with the Kafka API
• Work to enhance both user experience and overall system performance
• Develop supporting infrastructure to enable other core teams to deliver features effectively
• Implement security and access control functions
• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• 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

Benefits

• U.S. base salary range for this role is $185,000 - $218,000 (CA, NY, WA) and $177,000 - $209,000 (other US locations)
• 100% remote organization