Redpanda Data · 6 hours ago
Senior Software Engineer, Core SQL
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$190K/yr - $260K/yr
5+ years expRedpanda Data is pioneering a new category in AI infrastructure with its Agentic Data Plane, enabling secure connections between AI agents and enterprise data. The role of Senior Software Engineer, Core SQL involves building a distributed SQL engine, optimizing SQL query execution, and ensuring high-performance analytics on massive datasets.
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Responsibilities
Work closely with engineers who care deeply about their craft, take pride in what they deliver, and uphold a strong culture of technical excellence through thoughtful code reviews and collaboration
Design, implement, and optimize high-performance SQL query execution algorithms and distributed SQL engine components using advanced optimization techniques (SIMD, cache-aware data structures, vectorization, structure-of-arrays layouts)
Help ensure Redpanda's core tenets of Operational Simplicity, No Data Loss, and Blazingly Fast performance remains true as we scale analytical data workloads
Measure, profile, and optimize code to achieve industry-leading query performance across diverse hardware architectures
Collaborate cross-functionally with product managers, designers, SREs, support, and customer success to solve challenging distributed systems problems
Drive delivery of an ambitious technical roadmap aligned with business goals for integrating high-performance analytics into Redpanda's data streaming platform
Write comprehensive tests and documentation to ensure code quality, long-term maintainability, and knowledge sharing across the team
Help shape Redpanda’s future while continuing to learn and grow as an engineer
Qualification
Required
At least 5 years of relevant professional experience working on performance-critical systems
Expert-level knowledge of modern C++ (ideally C++17 or C++20), including STL, memory management, and performance-oriented programming patterns
Strong algorithmic foundation with proven ability to design and optimize complex data-processing algorithms
Hands-on experience profiling, benchmarking, and performance tuning of production systems in Linux environments
Deep understanding of parallel computing and concurrent programming, multi-threaded architectures, and synchronization primitives, along with familiarity with CPU architecture (cache hierarchies, memory bandwidth, branch prediction, instruction-level parallelism)
Experience working on deeply technical systems involving scalability, concurrency, parallelism, and correctness
Passion for building scalable, high-performance systems through systematic profiling, benchmarking and iterative optimization
Pride in writing robust, well-abstracted code and a collaborative mindset that values feedback and code reviews
Experience or interest in working with a fully distributed engineering team and contributing in open-source environments
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Preferred
C++ 20 experience
Hands-on SIMD programming experience (e.g., AVX2, AVX-512, NEON, or similar)
Familiarity with Apache Arrow, Parquet, or other columnar data formats
Knowledge of SQL query optimization including cost-based optimization and execution strategies
Experience with distributed database systems, distributed storage, and containerized deployment (Docker/Kubernetes)
Python experience for testing frameworks, benchmarking tooling, or database client integrations
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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