Sr. Engineering Manager, Replication and Storage

Redpanda Data is pioneering a new category in AI infrastructure with its Agentic Data Plane, providing a data streaming platform for enterprises. They are seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a distributed team of engineers in solving complex problems related to distributed consensus and storage systems.

Responsibilities:

• Work with and guide a distributed engineering team that is solving highly unique and complex problems in distributed consensus, transactions and our Storage engine
• Together with the rest of engineering leadership and product management, craft and execute the company’s technology vision and strategy
• Make sure the team is empowered and can demonstrate a strong sense of ownership and belonging
• Motivate and enable the team to contribute towards organizational success
• Give frequent and actionable feedback to support your team’s personal development
• Create an environment where the team is aligned with company goals, and decision-making is done collaboratively
• Continuously strive to improve how the team works and measure outcomes
• Lead the recruiting and hiring process of the team
• Participate in regular performance reviews
• Mentor team members and collaborate with them on personal and career growth
• Bring up difficult and/or systemic challenges and impediments to the attention of your manager
• Actively discuss strategic topics with peers and Directors to help shape engineering’s environment
• Track progress, assess risks, and actively communicate contingency and mitigation plans for the team
• Provide career development guidance and structure to members of the team
• Drive evaluation and management of team members’ performance
• Manage execution of projects that the team takes on

Requirements:

• 10+ years of experience in software development and delivery
• 5+ years of experience in managing software developers
• Experience leading or managing highly technical engineering teams
• Experience developing a strategy and roadmap for your teams
• An entrepreneurial spirit - as we expect each team in Redpanda to organize themselves like a startup
• Strong verbal and written communication skills and demonstrated technical leadership
• Previous experience growing a team to 15-20 people
• Reasonably current understanding of C++, C, Rust, or other systems language, including profiling and benchmarking
• Comfortable working with a 100% distributed engineering team, collaborating on GitHub, in the open and a self starter
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Knowledge of Linux filesystem internals
• Experience working on databases or other storage systems internals, such as RPC, caching, allocators, compressors, Raft, Paxos, etc
• Previous experience managing people managers