Senior Software Engineer, Console
Overview
Redpanda is building the streaming data platform for developers, evolving streaming beyond the Apache Kafka protocol into a unified engine of record.
Job Description
Redpanda is 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.
Responsibilities
- - 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!
Required Skills
- - 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
Benefits
- - Remote-first company
- - Work with a fast-moving product
- - Join a culture based on trust, transparency, communication, and kindness
About the company
The Kafka-compatible streaming data platform built for data-intensive applications. Connect anything with 260 connectors, process in real time with built-in transformations, and optimize costs with tiered storage.
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