Principal Software Engineer – Agentic Data Plane

Redpanda Data

Principal Software Engineer focusing on architecting Redpanda's Agentic Data Plane. Engaging in strategic customer partnership and research integration for AI infrastructure.

Posted 5/6/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $245,000 - $290,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

ApacheDistributed SystemsGoKafka

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Track emerging research, frameworks, and industry developments in the agentic AI space, and translate the most relevant signals into concrete engineering proposals and product bets
Identify, prototype, and deliver high-leverage emerging capabilities for ADP, in partnership with the broader team
Define architectural patterns for new ADP capabilities, ensuring they integrate cleanly with the existing runtime, policy, and observability layers
Engage directly with strategic customers and the field to stress-test new capabilities against real enterprise deployment scenarios
Serve as a technical ambassador for ADP externally, publishing research, writing engineering blog posts, and speaking at conferences to establish Redpanda's credibility at the frontier of agentic infrastructure
Participate in on-call and help drive down operational toil, improving system observability and self-healing capabilities over time

Requirements

What you’ll need

10+ years of software engineering experience, with a demonstrated track record of leading the design and delivery of complex, large-scale distributed systems
Experience building or contributing to emerging areas of agentic AI infrastructure, e.g. eval frameworks, orchestration layers, context management, AI gateways, or similar
Fluency with AI-assisted development at the level of agentic orchestration, i.e. composing multi-agent coding workflows with subagents to dramatically accelerate research and prototyping
Deep expertise in at least one systems language (Go preferred) and comfort working across the stack
Understanding of streaming data systems, messaging infrastructure, or data plane/control plane architectures, experience with Apache Kafka or Redpanda is a plus
Experience designing and operating systems that enforce access control, policy, and auditability at scale
Self-directed, strong written communicator, comfortable collaborating asynchronously in GitHub, Slack, and Google Docs
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills. Able to lead without authority across engineering teams and engage credibly with technical customers and external audiences.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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Track emerging research, frameworks, and industry developments in the agentic AI space, and translate the most relevant signals into concrete engineering proposals and product bets
Identify, prototype, and deliver high-leverage emerging capabilities for ADP, in partnership with the broader team
Define architectural patterns for new ADP capabilities, ensuring they integrate cleanly with the existing runtime, policy, and observability layers
Engage directly with strategic customers and the field to stress-test new capabilities against real enterprise deployment scenarios
Serve as a technical ambassador for ADP externally, publishing research, writing engineering blog posts, and speaking at conferences to establish Redpanda's credibility at the frontier of agentic infrastructure
Participate in on-call and help drive down operational toil, improving system observability and self-healing capabilities over time 🎯 Requirements
10+ years of software engineering experience, with a demonstrated track record of leading the design and delivery of complex, large-scale distributed systems
Experience building or contributing to emerging areas of agentic AI infrastructure, e.g. eval frameworks, orchestration layers, context management, AI gateways, or similar
Fluency with AI-assisted development at the level of agentic orchestration, i.e. composing multi-agent coding workflows with subagents to dramatically accelerate research and prototyping
Deep expertise in at least one systems language (Go preferred) and comfort working across the stack
Understanding of streaming data systems, messaging infrastructure, or data plane/control plane architectures, experience with Apache Kafka or Redpanda is a plus
Experience designing and operating systems that enforce access control, policy, and auditability at scale
Self-directed, strong written communicator, comfortable collaborating asynchronously in GitHub, Slack, and Google Docs
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Hard Skills & Tools

software engineeringdistributed systemsagentic AI infrastructureAI-assisted developmentsystems languagestreaming data systemsmessaging infrastructureaccess controlpolicy enforcementauditability

Soft Skills

self-directedstrong written communicatorcollaborationinterpersonal skillsleadershipengagement with technical customerspublic speaking