Rust Jobs for Rustaceans

Key Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain the customer-facing interfaces provided by Redpanda
• Analyze and drive for parity with the Kafka API
• Work to enhance both user experience and overall system performance
• Develop supporting infrastructure to enable other core teams to deliver features effectively
• Implement security and access control functions
• 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 while expanding our target addressable market through features and integrations

You are:

• A general technologist at heart with a “I can figure it out” approach to challenges
• A natural collaborator, ready to bring your own ideas as well as support others’ innovations
• Looking to further develop your skills in building scalable and performant systems
• Autonomous, able to work asynchronously while also communicating effectively with team members
• Committed to lifelong learning

**You have: **

• 3+ 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

**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
• Data streaming application experience