Redpanda Data · 5 days ago
Sr. Engineering Manager, Replication and Storage
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$221K/yr - $275K/yr
10+ years expRedpanda Data is pioneering the Agentic Data Plane (ADP) in AI infrastructure, creating a data streaming platform for enterprise applications. The Senior Engineering Manager will lead a distributed team of engineers to solve complex problems in distributed consensus and storage systems while driving the company's technology vision and strategy.
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Responsibilities
Work with and guide a distributed engineering team that is solving highly unique and complex problems in distributed consensus, transactions and our Storage engine
Together with the rest of engineering leadership and product management, craft and execute the company’s technology vision and strategy
Make sure the team is empowered and can demonstrate a strong sense of ownership and belonging
Motivate and enable the team to contribute towards organizational success
Give frequent and actionable feedback to support your team’s personal development
Create an environment where the team is aligned with company goals, and decision-making is done collaboratively
Continuously strive to improve how the team works and measure outcomes
Lead the recruiting and hiring process of the team
Participate in regular performance reviews
Mentor team members and collaborate with them on personal and career growth
Bring up difficult and/or systemic challenges and impediments to the attention of your manager
Actively discuss strategic topics with peers and Directors to help shape engineering’s environment
Track progress, assess risks, and actively communicate contingency and mitigation plans for the team
Provide career development guidance and structure to members of the team
Drive evaluation and management of team members’ performance
Manage execution of projects that the team takes on
Qualification
Required
10+ years of experience in software development and delivery
5+ years of experience in managing software developers
Experience leading or managing highly technical engineering teams
Experience developing a strategy and roadmap for your teams
An entrepreneurial spirit - as we expect each team in Redpanda to organize themselves like a startup
Strong verbal and written communication skills and demonstrated technical leadership
Previous experience growing a team to 15-20 people
Reasonably current understanding of C++, C, Rust, or other systems language, including profiling and benchmarking
Comfortable working with a 100% distributed engineering team, collaborating on GitHub, in the open and a self starter
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Preferred
Knowledge of Linux filesystem internals
Experience working on databases or other storage systems internals, such as RPC, caching, allocators, compressors, Raft, Paxos, etc
Previous experience managing people managers
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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