Staff Software Engineer, Cloud

Redpanda Data

Staff Software Engineer designing and building cloud services for the Agentic Data Plane at Redpanda. Collaborating on systems architecture and enhancing operational excellence.

Posted 5/7/2026full-timeWarsaw • 🇵🇱 PolandLeadWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudGoGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetes

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design, build and operate ADP and cloud services across AWS, GCP, and Azure, including control plane and data plane components
Convert ambiguous product requirements into clear technical designs and executable workstreams
Lead the technical direction of large projects within ADP, and contribute to architecture discussions that span ADP and adjacent Cloud teams
Anticipate technical risks and proactively mitigate them to ensure timely, high quality delivery
Set and uphold high standards for reliability, scalability, performance, and security
Identify and champion new features, process improvements, and strategic initiatives that enhance engineering culture and operational excellence
Participate in the on-call escalation chain; helping reduce escalations and improve operational health
Build tools and services for automated infrastructure provisioning, deployment, and self-healing
Make resilience and observability integral to the systems you own, enabling us to run enterprise-grade agentic systems and service in the cloud

Requirements

What you’ll need

Significant experience designing and operating large-scale, reliable systems in public cloud environments
A track record of leading large technical projects end-to-end, from design and planning, to execution and production operations
Strong proficiency in Go (or comparable systems language with willingness to ramp)
Experience with AI-assisted software development workflows including tools like Claude Code
Production experience with Kubernetes, including running and operating workloads
Working knowledge of at least one of AWS / Azure / GCP, including IaC for system and network infrastructure
Familiarity with stream processing concepts
Excellent written and verbal communication skills; comfortable working in a globally distributed, async environment (e.g., GitHub)
Ability to collaborate effectively with engineering, product, and customer-facing stakeholders

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
Paid time off
Flexible work arrangements
Professional development opportunities

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Hard Skills & Tools

GoKubernetesAWSGCPAzureInfrastructure as Code (IaC)AI-assisted software developmentstream processingautomated infrastructure provisioningself-healing systems

Soft Skills

leadershipcommunicationcollaborationproblem-solvingrisk managementprocess improvementoperational excellencetechnical directionproject managementadaptability