Principal Engineer - Cloud

Redpanda Data•San Francisco, CA

23h•Hybrid

About The Position

Redpanda is pioneering the Agentic Data Plane (ADP) - a new category in AI infrastructure that makes it simple and secure to connect AI agents with enterprise data and systems. Built on a multi-modal data streaming engine, Redpanda empowers agentic applications that reason and act in real-time with speed, autonomy, and precision. Global leaders including Activision Blizzard, Cisco, Moody's, Texas Instruments, Vodafone and 2 of the top 5 banks in the U.S. rely on Redpanda to process hundreds of terabytes of data a day. Backed by premier venture investors Lightspeed, GV and Haystack VC, Redpanda is a diverse, people-first organization with teams distributed around the globe. About the Role: We are continuing to invest and grow our Redpanda Cloud engineering team. We are looking for an experienced software engineer who is up for the challenge to not only architect and build the systems that deliver Redpanda as a world class cloud service, but also shape the technical culture that creates these systems. In this role, you will design and develop our Redpanda Cloud services, including our Bring Your Own Cloud, Serverless, and Redpanda Connect products. You will take a lead in defining system architecture, designing and developing new features, operating the Redpanda Cloud, and helping us meet our 99.99% SLA. You will help raise the bar across the cloud engineering team. You will collaborate closely across our Cloud, Core, and Platform engineering teams, as well as pre and post-sales support to build robust and scalable systems, with an emphasis on stability and safe upgrades with zero downtime. This is a hybrid role in our San Francisco office.

Requirements

Passion for working on deeply technical projects, distributed systems, concurrency & parallelism, and correctness
Extensive experience designing and operating reliable large-scale systems in public clouds
Experience in shaping, managing, and deploying workloads in Kubernetes
Deep understanding of Go
Expert knowledge of at least one: AWS, Azure, GCP including experience with IAC both system and network infrastructure
Understanding of stream processing
Experience and comfortable working with a 100% distributed engineering team, collaborating on GitHub, in the open and a self-starter
Passion to grow a culture of written tradition
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, capable of engaging with stakeholders at all levels of the organization

Nice To Haves

Working knowledge of building Kubernetes operators for storage systems and stateful workloads
Experience building a SaaS platform
Operated and used streaming platforms either as a user or provider

Responsibilities

Design, build and maintain our cloud services across AWS, GCP, and Azure, including control plane and data plane aspects
Guide and evolve our system architecture in collaboration with other engineering leaders
Identify and champion new features, process changes, and other strategic projects that improve our engineering culture and operational excellence
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 the engineering teams on building new services to be deployed across all of our supported clouds
Build tools & services to allow automated infrastructure provisioning and self-healing, including deployments and upgrades
Make resilience and observability integral to the system, enabling us to run a managed, cloud-based streaming-as-a-service with >99.9% uptime

Benefits

U.S. base salary range for this role is $244,000 - $287,000. 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.
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.

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