Software Engineer, Connect

Redpanda Data; United States; Remote; USD 186,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

A streaming data technology company is seeking a Software Engineer to develop and maintain its Connector ecosystem. The role involves collaborating closely with engineering teams to build scalable systems focused on open source development and cloud integration. Candidates should have expertise in Go and distributed systems, and be passionate about working on technical projects. The role offers a competitive salary based on location and experience.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding and experience of Go.
• Experience with AI and its limitations.
• Comfortable in a distributed engineering environment.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the Connect open source repo.
• Design new AI solutions for streaming data.
• Collaborate with engineering teams for deployments.

Skills

Go programming

Distributed systems

Concurrency & parallelism

AI integrations

AWS

Azure

GCP

Tools

Kubernetes

GitHub

JIRA

Slack

Confluence

Job description

We are a team of doers, seasoned engineers, hackers and builders, working on the future of streaming data.

Funded by premier investors including GV and Lightspeed, Redpanda is building the streaming data platform for developers. We’re evolving streaming beyond the Apache Kafka protocol into a unified “engine of record” that delivers a categorical reduction in complexity, wicked-fast performance, onboard Wasm transforms, and transparent tiered storage that gives consumers access to both real-time and historical data from a single API.

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.

Responsibilities

• 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

Requirements

• 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

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.

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.

Redpanda is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.