Software Engineer, Kubernetes

About the Role:

We are seeking a talented Go developer with strong expertise in Kubernetes to join our Engineering team. In this role, you will focus on developing and maintaining our Kubernetes operator and related Helm charts. You will collaborate closely with our cloud and core engineering teams to build robust and scalable systems, with an emphasis on stability and safe upgrades with zero downtime.

You Will:

• Contribute to our Kubernetes operator and Helm chart, both internally and at customers and members of our community
• Be an expert at all things Kubernetes, influencing designs and implementations of Redpanda running over both managed and unmanaged Kubernetes
• Contribute meaningfully to the test coverage of operator
• 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

You Have:

• Passion for working on deeply technical projects and wanting to work on distributed systems, concurrency & parallelism, and correctness
• Strong understanding of Go and Kubernetes
• Experience and comfortable working with a 100% distributed engineering team, collaborating on GitHub, in the open and a self-starter
• Passion to grow a culture of written tradition
• Comfort working within a small team and 100% distributed engineering org collaborating on GitHub, JIRA, Slack, and video meetings
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, capable of engaging with stakeholders at all levels of the organization

Please highlight if applicable to you:

• Working knowledge of building Kubernetes operators for storage systems
• Experience building a SaaS platform
• Operated and used streaming platforms either as a user or provider

U.S. base salary range for this role is $185,000 - $218,000 (CA, NY, WA) and $177,000 - $208,000 (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.