Software Engineer | Redpanda Data
Posted 2025-09-08
Remote, USA
Full Time
Immediate Start
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><em><strong class=" font-semibold">We are a team of doers, seasoned engineers, hackers and builders, working on the future of streaming data.</strong></em></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><em>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.</em></p>
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<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold"><em>About the Role:</em></strong></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">The Core Engineering team’s mission is to create the best data streaming platform. The team consists of 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 work closely across multiple functions at Redpanda and our work directly drives key business metrics through various SaaS and self-managed offerings. Redpanda is growing and so are we.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">We are looking for a performance and scalability expert who will help with the Core Engineering team’s mandate to push Redpanda’s scale and performance up to the limit of what the underlying hardware is capable of. Low latency is a core tenet of our product philosophy and the team’s <a href="https://redpanda-data.medium.com/always-on-production-memory-profiling-in-just-5-instructions-seastar-5c1c405578e3" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">blog on Memory Profiler</a> a good example of what we do.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold"><em>You will:</em></strong></p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Play a key role in making Redpanda faster while we continue to build more features and capabilities</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Employ your expertise in debugging deep Linux system level issues via tools such as perf or eBPF</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Contribute to understanding bottlenecks and hotspots in high throughput complex distributed systems</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Optimize software, all the way from specific subsystems to large inter-system interactions employing varied tools and techniques</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Build tooling and test harnesses (in Python) to ensure Redpanda’s performance continues to be a first class citizen</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Work with engineering team members who deeply care about our craft and take pride in what we deliver</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Help shape Redpanda’s future while learning and growing professionally</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold"><em>You have:</em></strong></p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">A strong understanding and experience in C++, preferably modern standards such as C++17 or C++20</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Substantial relevant experience of at least 7 years in a professional role</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Penchant and curiosity for debugging and figuring out performance issue deep into the innards of Linux based systems</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Prior experience in working on deeply technical projects in the realm of performance optimization, performance testing, scalability, concurrency and parallelism, replication protocols, and correctness</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Passion for making complex distributed system run faster and more efficiently through various Performance engineering techniques and analysis</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Desire to further develop your skills in building scalable and high-performing systems</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Pride in writing robust, well-abstracted code and care as much about deleting dead code as writing new code</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Experience or desire to work with a 100% distributed engineering team, collaborating in the open on GitHub, and internally in JIRA</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Excellent written communication skills</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold"><em>You are:</em></strong></p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Passionate about world-class systems software development and the value it provides</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Excited to roll up your sleeves and do what it takes to deliver objective results</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Eager to thrive with the thrill and ethos of a fast growing startup</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Accountable, bring a sense of ownership and are self-driven</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">A generalist who is excited to contribute to a team that owns the performance and scalability charter, which includes testing performance of new features, hardware and product configurations.</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><em>U.S. base salary range for this role is $186,000 – $218,000 (CA, NY, WA) and $177,000 – $208,000 (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.</em></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><em>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.</em><br />
<em>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.</em></p>
<h6><em>#LI-Remote</em></h6>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><em>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.</em></p>
<h6></h6>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold"><em>About the Role:</em></strong></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">The Core Engineering team’s mission is to create the best data streaming platform. The team consists of 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 work closely across multiple functions at Redpanda and our work directly drives key business metrics through various SaaS and self-managed offerings. Redpanda is growing and so are we.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">We are looking for a performance and scalability expert who will help with the Core Engineering team’s mandate to push Redpanda’s scale and performance up to the limit of what the underlying hardware is capable of. Low latency is a core tenet of our product philosophy and the team’s <a href="https://redpanda-data.medium.com/always-on-production-memory-profiling-in-just-5-instructions-seastar-5c1c405578e3" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">blog on Memory Profiler</a> a good example of what we do.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold"><em>You will:</em></strong></p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Play a key role in making Redpanda faster while we continue to build more features and capabilities</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Employ your expertise in debugging deep Linux system level issues via tools such as perf or eBPF</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Contribute to understanding bottlenecks and hotspots in high throughput complex distributed systems</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Optimize software, all the way from specific subsystems to large inter-system interactions employing varied tools and techniques</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Build tooling and test harnesses (in Python) to ensure Redpanda’s performance continues to be a first class citizen</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Work with engineering team members who deeply care about our craft and take pride in what we deliver</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Help shape Redpanda’s future while learning and growing professionally</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold"><em>You have:</em></strong></p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">A strong understanding and experience in C++, preferably modern standards such as C++17 or C++20</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Substantial relevant experience of at least 7 years in a professional role</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Penchant and curiosity for debugging and figuring out performance issue deep into the innards of Linux based systems</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Prior experience in working on deeply technical projects in the realm of performance optimization, performance testing, scalability, concurrency and parallelism, replication protocols, and correctness</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Passion for making complex distributed system run faster and more efficiently through various Performance engineering techniques and analysis</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Desire to further develop your skills in building scalable and high-performing systems</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Pride in writing robust, well-abstracted code and care as much about deleting dead code as writing new code</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Experience or desire to work with a 100% distributed engineering team, collaborating in the open on GitHub, and internally in JIRA</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Excellent written communication skills</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold"><em>You are:</em></strong></p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Passionate about world-class systems software development and the value it provides</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Excited to roll up your sleeves and do what it takes to deliver objective results</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Eager to thrive with the thrill and ethos of a fast growing startup</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Accountable, bring a sense of ownership and are self-driven</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">A generalist who is excited to contribute to a team that owns the performance and scalability charter, which includes testing performance of new features, hardware and product configurations.</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><em>U.S. base salary range for this role is $186,000 – $218,000 (CA, NY, WA) and $177,000 – $208,000 (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.</em></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><em>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.</em><br />
<em>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.</em></p>
<h6><em>#LI-Remote</em></h6>