Director of Engineering, Cloud

Redpanda Data is pioneering the Agentic Data Plane (ADP), a new category in AI infrastructure. They are seeking an accomplished Director of Engineering to lead their Cloud Engineering team, defining and executing the technical vision while collaborating across various departments to ensure the delivery of scalable cloud offerings.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage a team of engineers working on Redpanda Cloud, including Agentic Data Plane efforts
• Attract and hire top-tier engineers and first-line managers, equip and empower them to meet/exceed expectations and deliverables, and delight our customers
• Partner with Product Management and Engineering leadership to define the technical direction and long-term vision for Redpanda Cloud products
• Lead execution across teams by setting priorities, allocating resources, and proactively identifying and mitigating risks to ensure predictable, end-to-end delivery
• Drive operational excellence across Redpanda Cloud, ensuring a reliable, predictable, and scalable enterprise-grade service for our customers
• Define and use meaningful metrics to measure and improve engineering productivity, delivery effectiveness, and team health
• Provide career development guidance, structure, and feedback to team members to nurture, grow and develop highly effective leaders and team members
• Collaborate with our technical field to deliver robust solutions to customer challenges
• Lead by example, reinforcing Redpanda’s culture of customer obsession, empathy, ownership, and winning together as a team

Requirements:

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, building and operating enterprise-grade SaaS platforms
• 5+ years of experience managing highly technical engineering teams, including leading organizations of 20+ engineers and managers
• Deep expertise in cloud infrastructure and operations, with hands-on experience in public cloud platforms, Kubernetes, distributed systems, and event-driven architectures
• Experience defining strategy and roadmaps that align engineering execution with business and product priorities
• Demonstrated ability to deliver results on complex initiatives through cross-team collaboration
• Eagerness to thrive in a fast growing, dynamic environment and comfortable working remotely with a 100% distributed team
• Strong verbal and written communication skills and demonstrated technical leadership
• A strong sense of empathy for both customers and teammates, and a commitment to building high-trust teams
• Golang proficiency preferred
• Expertise in Linux systems used to run and operate production-grade services
• Hands-on experience with data streaming platforms, AI/ML infrastructure, databases, or distributed storage systems at scale
• Experience enabling teams to adopt AI code generation tools in ways that measurably improve velocity while maintaining quality