__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.

_You Will:

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

_You Have:

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
Cloud engineering experience
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.

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._