Software Engineer, Core Enterprise United States, Canada

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: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.Redpanda continues to mindfully grow and so are we. 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 are:A general technologist at heart with a “I can figure it out” approach to challengesA natural collaborator, ready to bring your own ideas as well as support others’ innovationsLooking to further develop your skills in building scalable and performant systemsAutonomous, able to work asynchronously while also communicating effectively with team membersCommitted to lifelong learningYou will:Build and maintain the customer-facing interfaces provided by RedpandaAnalyze and drive for parity with the Kafka APIWork to enhance both user experience and overall system performanceDevelop supporting infrastructure to enable other core teams to deliver features effectivelyImplement security and access control functionsEnable new customer-centric capabilities that focus on serving large enterprise customersContribute 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 integrationsYou have:3+ years of substantial and relevant experience in software developmentStrong understanding and experience of C++, Rust or other systems languages (ideally modern C++17 or C++20), including profiling and benchmarkingNice to have:Knowledge of and experience integrating auth{n,z} protocols such as: OAuth (OpenID), kerberos, SASL, LDAP, SCRAM, TLS, etcExperience with development of high throughput real-time distributed platformsSome working knowledge of kubernetes and systems maintenanceMetrics development including open telemetry, prometheus and GrafanaData streaming application experienceU.S. base salary range for this role is $185,000 - $220,000 (CA, NY, WA) and $177,000 - $210,000 (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. 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. #J-18808-Ljbffr