Software Engineer, Core Replication

Overview

Job Description

Responsibilities

• - Work with engineering team members who deeply care about our craft and take pride in what we deliver
• - Contribute to the overall success of Redpanda, ensuring our core tenets of Operational simplicity, No Data Loss, and Blazingly Fast remain true as we push the envelope on scalability
• - Collaborate with product managers, designers, SREs, support, and customer success to deliver solutions to challenging distributed systems problems
• - Work strategically to deliver an ambitious technical roadmap to meet business goals of a fast growing startup
• - Deliver robust solutions to complex technical challenges as our Product is high-throughput, large-scale and mission-critical, and built with asynchronous programming principles
• - Help shape Redpanda’s future while learning and growing professionally

Required Skills

• - Substantial relevant experience of at least 5 years in a professional or academic role
• - Prior experience in working on deeply technical projects in the realm of scalability, concurrency and parallelism, replication protocols, and correctness
• - Passion in working on distributed systems and consensus protocols with knowledge of at least one consensus protocol a must (Paxos, Raft, others)
• - Strong understanding and experience of C++ (ideally modern C++17 or C++20), including profiling and benchmarking
• - Desire to further develop your skills in building scalable and performant systems via profiling and benchmarking
• - Pride in writing robust, well-abstracted code along with the understanding that code is often made better via other''s reviews
• - Experience or desire to work with a 100% distributed engineering team, collaborating on GitHub, in open source
• - Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Benefits

• - Remote-first company
• - Competitive salary
• - Opportunity to work with a fast-growing startup
• - Culture based on trust, transparency, communication, and kindness