Software Engineer, Core Performance

About the Role:

The Core Engineering team’s mission is to create the best data streaming platform. The team consists of 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. We work 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 a performance and scalability expert who will help with the Core Engineering team’s mandate to push Redpanda’s scale and performance up to the limit of what the underlying hardware is capable of. Low latency is a core tenet of our product philosophy and the team’s blog on Memory Profiler a good example of what we do.  

You will:

• Play a key role in making Redpanda faster while we continue to build more features and capabilities
• Employ your expertise in debugging deep Linux system level issues via tools such as perf or eBPF
• Contribute to understanding bottlenecks and hotspots in high throughput complex distributed systems
• Optimize software, all the way from specific subsystems to large inter-system interactions employing varied tools and techniques
• Build tooling and test harnesses (in Python) to ensure Redpanda’s performance continues to be a first class citizen
• Work with engineering team members who deeply care about our craft and take pride in what we deliver
• Help shape Redpanda’s future while learning and growing professionally

You have:

• A strong understanding and experience in C++, preferably modern standards such as C++17 or C++20
• Substantial relevant experience of at least 7 years in a professional role
• Penchant and curiosity for debugging and figuring out performance issue deep into the innards of Linux based systems
• Prior experience in working on deeply technical projects in the realm of performance optimization, performance testing, scalability, concurrency and parallelism, replication protocols, and correctness
• Passion for making complex distributed system run faster and more efficiently through various Performance engineering techniques and analysis
• Desire to further develop your skills in building scalable and high-performing systems
• Pride in writing robust, well-abstracted code and care as much about deleting dead code as writing new code
• Experience or desire to work with a 100% distributed engineering team, collaborating in the open on GitHub, and internally in JIRA
• Excellent written communication skills

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
• A generalist who is excited to contribute to a team that owns the performance and scalability charter, which includes testing performance of new features, hardware and product configurations.

U.S. base salary range for this role is $186,000 - $218,000 (CA, NY, WA) and  $177,000 - $208,000 (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.