Software Engineer, Core Replication

The job overview for this position is labeled "About the Role" and provides a summary of the Core Software Engineer position at Redpanda. The Core Engineering team's mission is to create the best data streaming platform, and the ideal candidate will help build out replication technologies, influence the roadmap and architecture, and partner with cross-functional teams to design and build the best real-time data streaming platform. The overview also highlights the candidate's responsibilities, including contributing to the overall success of Redpanda, collaborating with various teams, and helping shape the company's future. The ideal candidate should have prior experience in working on deeply technical projects, a passion for working on distributed systems and consensus protocols, and substantial relevant experience of at least 5 years in a professional or academic role. The U.S. base salary range for this role is $150,000 - $180,000 (CO, TX) and $170,000 - $200,000 (CA, NY).

• Work with engineering team members to contribute to the success of Redpanda, ensuring core tenets of operational simplicity, no data loss, and blazingly fast performance remain true
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver solutions to challenging distributed systems problems
• Help shape Redpanda's future while learning and growing professionally
• Have prior experience in working on deeply technical projects in the realm of scalability, concurrency and parallelism, replication protocols, and correctness
• Passionate about working on distributed systems and consensus protocols, knowledge of Raft is a plus
• Strong understanding and experience of C++, Rust or other systems languages, including profiling and benchmarking
• Desire to further develop skills in building scalable and performant systems
• Pride in writing robust, well-abstracted code and care as much about deleting dead code as writing new code
• Substantial relevant experience of at least 5 years in a professional or academic role
• Experience or desire to work with a 100% distributed engineering team, collaborating on GitHub, in open source
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Prior experience in working on deeply technical projects in the realm of scalability, concurrency and parallelism, replication protocols, and correctness
• Passion in working on distributed systems and consensus protocols. Knowledge of Raft is a plus
• Strong understanding and experience of C++, Rust or other systems languages (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 and care as much about deleting dead code as writing new code
• Substantial relevant experience of at least 5 years in a professional or academic role
• Experience or desire to work with a 100% distributed engineering team, collaborating on GitHub, in open source
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• C++ 20 experience (if applicable)
• Experience building consensus algorithms (if applicable)
• Knowledge of Raft (if applicable)