Redpanda DataRD

Software Engineer, Console

Redpanda is a streaming data platform compatible with Kafka® APIs, designed to be simpler, more powerful, and cost-efficient by eliminating Kafka's complexity. It offers a unified engine for both real-time and historical enterprise data.

Redpanda Data

Employee count: 51-200

Salary: 177k-250k USD

CA, GB + 1 more
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:

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Redpanda Console team, you'll build intuitive, high-impact tools used by thousands of developers to simplify and streamline their interaction with Redpanda and Kafka. In this role, you’ll help shape a critical tool that empowers developers around the world. You'll own meaningful technical challenges, collaborate closely with customers and cross-functional teams, and dive deep into complex systems—all while crafting elegant, user-focused solutions. If you’re obsessed with developer experience, and excited to work on a fast-moving product in a remote-first environment, this role is made for you. If you're driven by solving real-world problems, enjoy working across disciplines, and care deeply about the people using your work, we’d love to have you help us raise the bar.

You Will:

  • Lead and contribute to the success of Redpanda Console - a user interface and backend that is used by thousands, striving to eliminate pain points users run into when working with Redpanda and Kafka
  • Work with customers, our community, as well as product, engineering and customer success teams to determine the best set of features and best ways to support key stakeholders
  • Write clear documentation that allows users to learn everything they need to know to integrate Redpanda Console with their environment
  • Review contributions from developers indirectly involved in the project, providing thoughtful feedback to incorporate solid code everybody is happy with
  • Deeply learn the Kafka protocol and the features Redpanda provides
  • Make the lives of our users easier and simpler!

You Have:

  • Strong understanding and experience with Go
  • Strong understanding of at least one of AWS, GCP, or Azure
  • Experience working in an enterprise startup
  • Strong sympathy for user experience and pain points: if one user vocalizes negative feedback, odds are ten are silently thinking the same thing
  • Experience diving into large, unknown domains and being able to incrementally drive projects to success
  • Excellent written communication skills
  • Familiarity working with a 100% distributed engineering team, collaborating on GitHub, Slack, and Zoom

Nice to Have:

  • Existing knowledge of Kafka or the Kafka protocol
  • Experience with Figma or other tools for creating mockups to communicate ideas
  • Experience with Frontend work (React, Vue, Angular or similar)
  • Experience writing and working with E2E test frameworks
  • Experience with creating and maintaining build pipelines (GitHub Actions, Buildkite)

U.S. base salary range for this role is $185,000 - $250,000 (CA, NY, WA) and $177,000 - $240,000 (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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Mid-level

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Salary: 177k-250k USD

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Canada +/- 0 hours, and 2 other timezones

About Redpanda Data

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At Redpanda, the core mission is to empower developers by simplifying the world of streaming data. The company was born out of a desire to create a platform that is not only powerful and fast but also remarkably easy to use, addressing the complexities often associated with traditional streaming technologies like Apache Kafka. Redpanda's culture is deeply rooted in engineering excellence and a relentless pursuit of performance. The team is driven by the challenge of building infrastructure that can handle mission-critical workloads for some of the world's leading companies, from financial services to gaming and telecommunications. This commitment to innovation is reflected in their approach to building a Kafka-compatible platform without the historical baggage of ZooKeeper or the JVM, resulting in a leaner, more efficient, and cost-effective solution.

Redpanda fosters a remote-first, inclusive, and diverse work environment, believing that the best talent can be found anywhere in the world. This philosophy allows them to bring together a team of passionate doers, hackers, and builders who are all dedicated to shaping the future of real-time data. The company values transparency and a 'humans first' approach, ensuring that team members feel connected and valued, regardless of their location. This supportive culture extends to their 'Hack The Planet' scholarship program, aimed at providing opportunities for underrepresented minorities in technology to work on challenging and ambitious projects. Ultimately, Redpanda is driven by the conviction that by providing developers with superior tools, they can unlock new possibilities in how enterprises leverage real-time data, making the transition from batch processing to continuous, real-time operations seamless and efficient.

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Learning and development budget

$500 to invest in your learning and development annually.

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Hands down the coolest swag in our industry! Your family will steal it. Guaranteed.

401(k) matching

Our 401(k) plans let you save for your future. And for our US and UK employees — we match!

Fully remote

We're a fully remote company that puts humans first. We advocate for working wherever you're most productive.

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