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Redpanda DataRedpanda DataUnited States

Senior Software Engineer, Connectors

Senior engineer building and maintaining Redpanda's Go-based Connector ecosystem for cloud streaming services. Focus on AI solutions, distributed systems, resilience, and zero-downtime deployments across AWS, Azure, and GCP.

164k – 235k
Remote5+ YOEBackend Engineering

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Contribute to our Connect codebases
  • 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

Requirements

  • Passion for working on deeply technical projects and wanting to work on distributed systems, concurrency & parallelism, and correctness
  • Strong understanding and experience of Go
  • Experience with how best to use AI, and a recognition of its limitations
  • 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 working on, using, and extending Kubernetes helm charts
  • Experience building a SaaS platform
  • Experience operating and using streaming platforms either as a user or provider
  • Cloud engineering experience
  • UI experience

Skills

GoAWSAzureGCPKubernetesHelmDistributed SystemsStream ProcessingConcurrencyObservability

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