Job description
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.
The engineering Core team’s mission is to create the best data streaming platform. The team consists of known experts in foundational technologies such as Raft/consensus, transactions and distributed storage, who have come together to build a differentiated highly performant product with compelling traction in the market. The engineering Core team works closely across multiple functions at Redpanda and our work directly drives key business metrics through various SaaS and self-managed offerings. Redpanda is growing and so are we!
We are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead a team of distributed systems engineers working on Redpanda.
You are:
- Passionate about world-class systems software development and the value it provides
- Excited to roll up your sleeves and do what it takes to deliver objective results
- Eager to thrive with the thrill and ethos of a fast growing startup
- Accountable, bring a sense of ownership and are self-driven
You have:
- 7+ years of experience in software development and delivery
- 3+ years of experience in managing software developers
- Reasonable and current understanding of C++ or Rust like system languages
- Experience leading or managing highly technical engineering teams
- Experience developing a strategy and roadmap for your teams
- An entrepreneurial spirit - as we expect each team in Redpanda to organize themselves like a startup
- Strong verbal and written communication skills and demonstrated technical leadership
- Comfortable working with a 100% distributed engineering team, collaborating on GitHub, in the open and a self starter
You will:
- Work with and guide a distributed engineering team that is solving highly complex problems around Kafka and next-gen streaming API
- Together with the rest of engineering leadership and product management, craft and execute the company’s technology vision and strategy
- Make sure the team is empowered and can demonstrate a strong sense of ownership and belonging
- Motivate and enable the team to contribute towards organizational success
- Give frequent and actionable feedback to support your team’s personal development
- Create an environment where the team is aligned with company goals, and decision-making is done collaboratively
- Continuously strive to improve how the team works and measure outcomes
- Lead the recruiting and hiring process of the team
- Participate in regular performance reviews
- Mentor team members and collaborate with them on personal and career growth
- Bring up difficult and/or systemic challenges and impediments to the attention of your manager
- Actively discuss strategic topics with peers and Directors to help shape engineering’s environment
- Track progress, assess risks, and actively communicate contingency and mitigation plans for the team
- Provide career development guidance and structure to members of the team
- Drive evaluation and management of team members’ performance
- Manage execution of projects that the team takes on
Nice to Have
- Knowledge of Linux filesystem internals
- Experience working on databases or other storage systems internals, such as RPC, caching, allocators, compressors, Raft, Paxos, etc.
- Previous experience managing managers
U.S. base salary range for this role is $210,000 - $255,000 (CA, NY, WA) and $200,000 - $245,000 (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.
