Senior Software Engineer, Core Enterprise

Redpanda is pioneering the Agentic Data Plane (ADP) - a new category in AI infrastructure that makes it simple and secure to connect AI agents with enterprise data and systems. Built on a multi-modal data streaming engine, Redpanda empowers agentic applications that reason and act in real-time with speed, autonomy, and precision. Global leaders including Activision Blizzard, Cisco, Moody's, Texas Instruments, Vodafone, and 2 of the top 5 banks in the U.S. rely on Redpanda to process hundreds of terabytes of data a day. Backed by premier venture investors Lightspeed, GV, and Haystack VC, Redpanda is a diverse, people-first organization with teams distributed around the globe. ### About the Role: The Core engineering team’s mission is to create the best data streaming platform. We are looking for a software engineer who will help expand Redpanda’s footprint with enterprise-focused features and functionality related to next-generation streaming platform, security, performance, and scalability. ### Responsibilities: - Build and maintain the customer-facing interfaces provided by Redpanda. - Analyze the Kafka API and strive for parity. - Enhance the user experience and overall system performance. - Implement security and access control functions critical for enterprise customers. - Enable new customer-centric capabilities that focus on serving large enterprise customers. - Contribute to the overall success of Redpanda by ensuring our core tenets of Operational Simplicity, No Data Loss, and Blazingly Fast remain true as we push the envelope on scalability. ### Requirements: - 5+ years of substantial and relevant experience in software development. - Strong understanding and experience of C++, Rust, or other systems languages (ideally modern C++17 or C++20), including profiling and benchmarking. - Excellent written communication skills and collaboration skills. - A lifelong commitment to learning and improving yourself. ### Nice to Have: - Knowledge of and experience integrating auth{n,z} protocols such as OAuth (OpenID), kerberos, SASL, LDAP, SCRAM, TLS, etc. - Experience with development of high throughput real-time distributed platforms. - Some working knowledge of Kubernetes and systems maintenance. - Metrics development including open telemetry, Prometheus, and Grafana. - Experience developing open source software and data streaming applications.