Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Redpanda Data is an innovative company that provides a unified platform for agent-data interaction. They are seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead their Cloud engineering teams, focusing on delivery, quality, and operational excellence while collaborating with various stakeholders.

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

Skills

• 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

Benefits

• As a remote-first company
• Your talent partner will share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process
• Join Redpanda if you’d enjoy being part of a fast-moving, diverse, people-first organization with team members around the globe and a culture based on trust, transparency, communication, and kindness
• You'll dive into a nimble, high-impact team with the latest AI tools — and the budget to actually use them

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