Redpanda Data · 14 hours ago
Senior Software Engineer, Core Replication
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$195K/yr - $260K/yr
5+ years expRedpanda Data is pioneering the Agentic Data Plane (ADP), a new category in AI infrastructure. The Senior Software Engineer will help build out replication technologies to ensure efficient data handling while collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance the data streaming platform.
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Responsibilities
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
Qualification
Required
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
Preferred
C++ 20 experience
Experience building consensus algorithms
Knowledge of Raft
Experience implementing software running over reactor-driven async systems
Company
Redpanda Data
Redpanda is pioneering the agentic data plane — AI infrastructure to connect agents with enterprise data and systems simply and securely.
51-200 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$265.5MKey Investors
Google VenturesLightspeed Venture Partners
2025-04-03Series D· $100M
2023-06-27Series C· $100M
2022-02-23Series B· $50M
Leadership Team
Alexander Gallego
Founder & CEO
Jennifer Lawrence
Chief Revenue Officer (CRO)
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