Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Redpanda Data is pioneering the Agentic Data Plane (ADP) - a new category in AI infrastructure that simplifies secure connections between AI agents and enterprise data. They are seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a Cloud engineering team, ensuring operational excellence and delivery of high-quality services while coaching engineers and collaborating with product 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
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
Company Overview
Redpanda is pioneering the agentic data plane — AI infrastructure to connect agents with enterprise data and systems simply and securely. It was founded in 2019, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is https://redpanda.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
Redpanda Data has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2025, 2 in 2023, 2 in 2022. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.