Software Engineer, Core Replication

We are a team of doers, seasoned engineers, hackers and builders, working on the future of streaming data.

Funded by premier investors including GV and Lightspeed, Redpanda is building the streaming data platform for developers. We’re 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 that gives consumers access to both real-time and historical data from a single API.

About the Role:

We are continuing to invest and grow our Core Engineering team at Redpanda. The Core engineering team’s mission is to create the best data streaming platform. The team consists of known experts in foundational technologies such as Raft/consensus, transactions, and distributed storage, who have come together to build a differentiated, highly performant product with compelling traction in the market. We are looking for a Core Software Engineer to help us build out our replication technologies. These technologies allow us to seamlessly and efficiently replicate and rebalance data, taking into consideration network layout, latency, resource utilization, and more. We are a team that excels at consensus algorithms (like Raft), and directly contribute to performance and scalability of Redpanda. The ideal candidate will influence both our roadmap and our architecture, and drive significant parts of our new initiatives. Come join us to partner closely with cross functional engineering, customer success, and product teams to build and design the very best present and future of real-time data streaming platform.

You Will:

Work with engineering team members who deeply care about our craft and take pride in what we deliver

Contribute to the overall success of Redpanda, ensuring our core tenets of Operational simplicity, No Data Loss, and Blazingly Fast remain true as we push the envelope on scalability, while expanding our target addressable market through features and integrations

Collaborate with product managers, designers, SREs, support, and customer success to deliver solutions to challenging distributed systems problems

Work strategically to deliver an ambitious technical roadmap to meet business goals of a fast growing startup

Deliver robust solutions to complex technical challenges as our Product is high-throughput, large-scale and mission-critical, and built with asynchronous programming principles

Help shape Redpanda’s future while learning and growing professionally

You Have:

Substantial relevant experience of at least 5 years in a professional or academic role

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 with knowledge of at least one consensus protocol a must (Paxos, Raft, others).

Strong understanding and experience of C++ (ideally modern C++17 or C++20), including profiling and benchmarking

Desire to further develop your skills in building scalable and performant systems via profiling and benchmarking

Pride in writing robust, well-abstracted code along with the understanding that code is often made better via other’s reviews

Experience or desire to work with a 100% distributed engineering team, collaborating on GitHub, in open source

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Please highlight if applicable to you:

C++ 20 experience

Experience building consensus algorithms

Knowledge of Raft

Experience implementing software running over reactor-driven async systems

U.S. base salary range for this role is $195,000 - $260,000 (CA, NY, WA) and $186,000 - $250,000 (other US locations). Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. As a remote-first company, we strive to consider each candidate's job-related skills, location, experience, relevant education or training to determine individual base salary. Your talent partner will share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Redpanda is used by Fortune 1000 enterprises pushing hundreds of terabytes a day, as well as by the solo dev prototyping a React application on her laptop. Think of it as a streaming data API platform that scales with you from the smallest projects to petabytes of data distributed across the globe.

Join Redpanda if you’d enjoy being part of a fast-moving, 100% remote organization with team members around the globe and a culture based on trust, transparency, communication, and kindness.

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