Redpanda is building the streaming data platform for developers, evolving streaming beyond the Apache Kafka® protocol into a unified “engine of record” that delivers a categorical reduction in complexity, wicked-fast performance, onboard Wasm transforms, and transparent tiered storage.
Requirements
- 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
- Working knowledge of building Kubernetes operators for storage systems and stateful workloads
- Experience building a SaaS platform
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
Other
- Passion for working on deeply technical projects, distributed systems, concurrency & parallelism, and correctness
- 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
- Operated and used streaming platforms either as a user or provider
