Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Redpanda Data is pioneering the Agentic Data Plane (ADP) in AI infrastructure, providing solutions for connecting AI agents with enterprise data. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to develop and maintain their Connector ecosystem, focusing on open source development and collaborating with engineering teams to build robust systems in the cloud.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to our Connect codebases
- 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
Skills
- Passion for working on deeply technical projects and wanting to work on distributed systems, concurrency & parallelism, and correctness
- Strong understanding and experience of Go
- Experience with how best to use AI, and a recognition of its limitations
- 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
- Working knowledge of working on, using, and extending Kubernetes helm charts
- Experience building a SaaS platform
- Experience operating and using streaming platforms either as a user or provider
- Cloud engineering experience
- UI experience
Benefits
- Join Redpanda if you’d enjoy being part of a fast-moving, diverse, people-first organization with team members around the globe and a culture based on trust, transparency, communication, and kindness.
- You'll dive into a nimble, high-impact team with the latest AI tools — and the budget to actually use them.
- #LI-Remote
Company Overview
Redpanda is pioneering the agentic data plane — AI infrastructure to connect agents with enterprise data and systems simply and securely. It was founded in 2019, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is https://redpanda.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
Redpanda Data has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2025, 2 in 2023, 2 in 2022. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.