Principal Engineer - Cloud at Redpanda Data in San Francisco, CA

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: We are continuing to invest and grow our Redpanda Cloud engineering team. We are looking for an experienced software engineer who is up for the challenge to not only architect and build the systems that deliver Redpanda as a world class cloud service, but also shape the technical culture that creates these systems. In this role, you will design and develop our Redpanda Cloud services, including our Bring Your Own Cloud, Serverless, and Redpanda Connect products. You will take a lead in defining system architecture, designing and developing new features, operating the Redpanda Cloud, and helping us meet our 99.99% SLA. You will help raise the bar across the cloud engineering team. You will collaborate closely across our Cloud, Core, and Platform engineering teams, as well as pre and post-sales support to build robust and scalable systems, with an emphasis on stability and safe upgrades with zero downtime. This is a hybrid role in our San Francisco office. You Will: Design, build and maintain our cloud services across AWS, GCP, and Azure, including control plane and data plane aspects Guide and evolve our system architecture in collaboration with other engineering leaders Identify and champion new features, process changes, and other strategic projects that improve our engineering culture and operational excellence Participate in an on-call escalation chain, help drive down problems that lead to on-call escalations, and help drive improving on-call quality of life Work with all the engineering teams on building new services to be deployed across all of our supported clouds Build tools & services to allow automated infrastructure provisioning and self-healing, including deployments and upgrades Make resilience and observability integral to the system, enabling us to run a managed, cloud-based streaming-as-a-service with >99.9% uptime You Have: Passion for working on deeply technical projects, distributed systems, concurrency & parallelism, and correctness Extensive experience designing and operating reliable large-scale systems in public clouds Experience in shaping, managing, and deploying workloads in Kubernetes Deep understanding of Go Expert knowledge of at least one: AWS, Azure, GCP including experience with IAC both system and network infrastructure Understanding of stream processing Experience and comfortable working with a 100% distributed engineering team, collaborating on GitHub, in the open and a self-starter Passion to grow a culture of written tradition Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, capable of engaging with stakeholders at all levels of the organization Nice to Have: Working knowledge of building Kubernetes operators for storage systems and stateful workloads Experience building a SaaS platform Operated and used streaming platforms either as a user or provider U.S. base salary range for this role is $244,000 - $287,000. 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. Join Redpanda if you’d enjoy being part of a fast-moving, diverse, people-first organization with team members around the globe and a culture based on trust, transparency, communication, and kindness. #LI-Remote