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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