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 …