Senior Software Engineer, Connectors

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