Who you are

• Passion for working on deeply technical projects, distributed systems, concurrency & parallelism, and correctness
• Extensive experience designing and operating reliable large-scale systems in public clouds
• Experience in shaping, managing, and deploying workloads in Kubernetes
• Deep understanding of Go
• Expert knowledge of at least one: AWS, Azure, GCP including experience with IAC both system and network infrastructure
• Understanding of stream processing
• Experience and comfortable working with a 100% distributed engineering team, collaborating on GitHub, in the open and a self-starter
• Passion to grow a culture of written tradition
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, capable of engaging with stakeholders at all levels of the organization
• Working knowledge of building Kubernetes operators for storage systems and stateful workloads
• Experience building a SaaS platform
• Operated and used streaming platforms either as a user or provider

What the job involves

• We are looking for an experienced software engineer who is up for the challenge to not only architect and build the systems that deliver Redpanda as a world class cloud service, but also shape the technical culture that creates these systems
• In this role, you will design and develop our Redpanda Cloud services, including our Bring Your Own Cloud, Serverless, and Redpanda Connect products
• You will take a lead in defining system architecture, designing and developing new features, operating the Redpanda Cloud, and helping us meet our 99.99% SLA
• You will help raise the bar across the cloud engineering team
• You will collaborate closely across our Cloud, Core, and Platform engineering teams, as well as pre and post-sales support to build robust and scalable systems, with an emphasis on stability and safe upgrades with zero downtime
• Design, build and maintain our cloud services across AWS, GCP, and Azure, including control plane and data plane aspects
• Guide and evolve our system architecture in collaboration with other engineering leaders
• Identify and champion new features, process changes, and other strategic projects that improve our engineering culture and operational excellence
• 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 the engineering teams on building new services to be deployed across all of our supported clouds
• Build tools & services to allow automated infrastructure provisioning and self-healing, including deployments and upgrades
• Make resilience and observability integral to the system, enabling us to run a managed, cloud-based streaming-as-a-service with >99.9% uptime

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