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Software Engineer, Core Storage

United States, Canada, United Kingdom
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 Core Engineering team at Redpanda. 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, and distributed storage, who have come together to build a differentiated, highly performant product with compelling traction in the market. 

We are looking for a Software Engineer to contribute to the complex storage layer of Redpanda. We take pride in building industry-leading fault-tolerant storage solution that delivers Enterprise-grade durability and resilience in heterogeneous distributed environments. We also leverage our position as the carrier of massive-scale enterprise data to provide our users with seamless integration of this data into datalakes such as Apache Iceberg.

The ideal candidate will influence both our roadmap and our architecture, and drive significant parts of our new initiatives. Come join us to partner closely with cross functional engineering, customer success, and product teams to build and design the very best present and future of real-time data streaming platform.

You will:

    • Play a key role in expanding Redpanda with extensible open table formats (such as Apache Iceberg) and file formats (such as Apache Parquet)
    • Work among team members who care about craft and take pride in what we deliver
    • Contribute to the overall success of Redpanda 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
    • Collaborate with product managers, designers, SREs, support and customer success teams to deliver solutions to challenging distributed systems problems in storage, consensus, stream processing, WASM, etc.

You have:

    • Substantial relevant experience of at least 5 years in a professional or academic role
    • Passion for working on deeply technical projects in the realm of distributed persistent systems (e.g. scalable filesystems, databases), concurrency and parallelism, replication protocols, and correctness.
    • Experience working on the internals of such systems, whether open source (e.g. Ceph, Kudu, Cassandra) or proprietary (e.g. high-scale cloud backend systems)
    • Strong understanding and experience of C++ (ideally modern C++17 or C++20), including profiling and benchmarking
    • Desire to further develop your skills in building scalable and performant systems
    • Pride in writing robust, well-abstracted code along with the understanding that code is often made better via other's reviews
    • Experience or desire to work with a 100% distributed engineering team, collaborating on GitHub, in the open
    • Excellent written communication skills
    • Desire to roll up your sleeves and do what it takes to deliver objective results in a fast growing start up

Please highlight if applicable to you: 

    • Experience implementing software running over reactor-driven async systems
    • Prior experience in a fully remote working environment

 

U.S. base salary range for this role is $170,000 - $230,000 (CA, NY, WA) and  $165,000 - $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.
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. 

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