# Senior Software Engineer, AI Platform

**Company:** [Redpanda Data](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/redpanda-data)
**Location:** Warsaw, Poland
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Go, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, GCP, Infrastructure As Code, Stream Processing, Claude Code, Kubernetes Operators, SaaS, Cloud Architecture, Observability
**Posted:** 2026-08-11

> Senior Software Engineer responsible for architecting, building, and operating Redpanda’s Agentic Data Plane and cloud services across major public clouds. The role emphasizes Go, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, reliability, observability, security, and end-to-end technical leadership.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate the Agentic Data Plane and cloud services across AWS, GCP, and Azure, including control-plane and data-plane components.
- Translate ambiguous product requirements into technical designs and executable workstreams.
- Contribute to architecture discussions spanning the Agentic Data Plane and adjacent Cloud teams.
- Anticipate and mitigate technical risks to support timely, high-quality delivery.
- Ensure reliability, scalability, performance, and security in shipped code and services.
- Participate in the on-call escalation chain and improve operational health.
- Build tools and services for automated infrastructure provisioning, deployment, and self-healing.
- Integrate resilience and observability into enterprise-grade cloud systems.

## Requirements
- Significant experience designing and operating large-scale, reliable systems in public cloud environments.
- Experience leading large technical projects end-to-end, from design and planning through execution and production operations.
- Strong proficiency in Go or a comparable systems language, with willingness to ramp up on Go.
- Experience with AI-assisted software development workflows, including tools such as Claude Code.
- Production experience with Kubernetes, including running and operating workloads.
- Working knowledge of at least one of AWS, Azure, or GCP, including infrastructure as code for system and network infrastructure.
- Familiarity with stream-processing concepts.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including comfort working in a globally distributed, asynchronous environment.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with engineering, product, and customer-facing stakeholders.

## Nice to Have
- Experience building Kubernetes operators for stateful or storage workloads.
- Experience building or operating SaaS platforms.
- Experience with streaming platforms as a user or provider.
- Exposure to production agentic systems and agentic workflows.

## Benefits
- Access to the latest AI tools and budget to use them.
- People-first culture based on trust, transparency, communication, and kindness.

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