Software Engineer, Connect

Redpanda Data; Remote; CAD 256,000 - 317,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading AI infrastructure company is seeking a Software Engineer to enhance their Go-based Connector team. This role involves developing and maintaining a connector ecosystem, contributing to open source projects, and collaborating closely with engineering teams. The ideal candidate has strong Go programming skills, experience with distributed systems, and expertise in cloud platforms like AWS or Azure. This position offers a competitive salary and the opportunity to work in a fully remote environment.

Qualifications

• Passion for deeply technical projects and distributed systems.
• Strong understanding and experience of Go.
• Expert knowledge of one cloud provider: AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Experience in working with distributed engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the Connect open source repo.
• Design new AI solutions for streaming data.
• Make resilience and observability integral to the system.
• Build Redpanda's cloud infrastructure focusing on performance.

Skills

Deeply technical project engagement

Understanding of distributed systems

Strong understanding of Go

Expert knowledge of AWS, Azure, or GCP

Stream processing understanding

Excellent communication skills

Tools

Kubernetes

GitHub

JIRA

Slack

Confluence

Job description

Redpanda is pioneering the Agentic Data Plane (ADP) - a new category in AI infrastructure that makes it simple and secure to connect AI agents with enterprise data and systems. Built on a multi-modal data streaming engine, Redpanda empowers agentic applications that reason and act in real-time with speed, autonomy, and precision.

Global leaders including Activision Blizzard, Cisco, Moody's, Texas Instruments, Vodafone and 2 of the top 5 banks in the U.S. rely on Redpanda to process hundreds of terabytes of data a day.

Backed by premier venture investors Lightspeed, GV and Haystack VC, Redpanda is a diverse, people-first organization with teams distributed around the globe.

About the Role

We are continuing to invest and grow our Go-based Connector team at Redpanda. We are looking for a Software Engineer who is up for the challenge to not only build the systems and to lift Redpanda into the public cloud space, but also shape the technical culture that creates these systems. In this role, you will focus on developing and maintaining our Connector ecosystem, with an emphasis on open source development. You will collaborate closely with our Cloud and Core engineering teams to build robust and scalable systems, with an emphasis on stability and safe upgrades with zero downtime.

You Will

• 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

You Have

• 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

Nice to Have

• Working knowledge of building Kubernetes operators for storage systems
• Experience building a SaaS platform
• Experience operating and using streaming platforms either as a user or provider
• UI experience

Salary

U.S. base salary range for this role is $195,000 - $230,000 (CA, NY, WA) and $186,000 - $220,000 (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.

Company Description

Redpanda is used by Fortune 1000 enterprises pushing hundreds of terabytes a day, as well as by the solo dev prototyping a React application on her laptop. Think of it as a streaming data API platform that scales with you from the smallest projects to petabytes of data distributed across the globe. Join Redpanda if you’d enjoy being part of a fast-moving, 100% remote organization with team members around the globe and a culture based on trust, transparency, communication, and kindness.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

As set forth in Redpanda Data’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.