Software Engineer, Core Storage

Overview

Job Description

Responsibilities

• - Play a key role in expanding Redpanda with extensible open table formats (such as Apache Iceberg) and file formats (such as Apache Parquet)
• - Work among team members who care about 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
• - Collaborate with product managers, designers, SREs, support and customer success teams to deliver solutions to challenging distributed systems problems

Required Skills

• - Substantial relevant experience of at least 5 years in a professional or academic role
• - Passion for working on deeply technical projects in the realm of distributed persistent systems
• - Experience working on the internals of such systems, whether open source or proprietary
• - Strong understanding and experience of C++ overall (ideally modern C++17 or C++20), including profiling and benchmarking
• - Expert-level knowledge of several aspects of C++
• - Desire to further develop your skills in building scalable and performant systems
• - Pride in writing robust, well-abstracted code
• - Experience or desire to work with a 100% distributed engineering team
• - Excellent written communication skills

Benefits

• - Remote-first company
• - Competitive salary
• - Opportunity to work with a team of known experts in foundational technologies
• - Culture based on trust, transparency, communication, and kindness