Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Redpanda, backed by Lightspeed, is pioneering a new category in AI infrastructure with its Agentic Data Plane. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to develop their Connector ecosystem, focusing on building robust systems in the cloud and enhancing technical culture within the team.
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
Skills
- 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
- 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
Benefits
- Join Redpanda if you’d enjoy being part of a fast-moving, diverse, people-first organization with team members around the globe and a culture based on trust, transparency, communication, and kindness.
- You'll dive into a nimble, high-impact team with the latest AI tools — and the budget to actually use them.
Company Overview
Lightspeed is a global, multi-stage, venture capital firm managing over $40B in assets. It was founded in 2000, and is headquartered in Menlo Park, California, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is http://lsvp.com.