Sr. Engineering Manager, Cloud

Redpanda is pioneering the Agentic Data Plane (ADP) - a new category in AI infrastructure that makes it simple and secure to connect AI agents with enterprise data and systems. They are seeking an accomplished Senior Engineering Manager to lead their Cloud engineering teams, ensuring operational excellence and effective team management.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage a team of engineers working on Redpanda Cloud, including Agentic Data Plane efforts
• Own end-to-end delivery for your team's roadmap: scoping, prioritisation, execution, and on-time, high-quality launches
• Maintain a high bar bar for operational excellence, including incident response, on-call health, SLOs, and day-2 operations
• Provide regular career development, coaching, and performance feedback that helps engineers level up
• Hire, onboard, and retain top-tier engineers; participate actively in interview loops and calibrations
• Partner with Product Management to shape the team's roadmap and translate product priorities into clear engineering plans
• Surface risks, dependencies, and trade-offs early
• Be data driven to to identify what's working and where to invest
• Collaborate with the Customer Success and Solutions Engineering to unblock customers and prioritise our roadmap

Requirements:

• 7+ years of experience in software engineering, including building and operating enterprise-grade SaaS platforms
• 3+ years of experience managing highly technical engineering teams, with a track record of delivery
• Expertise in cloud infrastructure and operations, with hands-on experience in public clouds (AWS/GCP/Azure), Kubernetes, and distributed systems
• Familiarity with agentic AI processes, and AI-assisted software development lifecycles
• Experience translating product priorities into team plans and delivering predictably against them
• Eagerness to thrive in a fast growing, dynamic environment and comfortable working remotely with a 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 or recent hands-on technical experience
• 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