Software Engineer, Console

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.