Director of Engineering, Cloud

Overview

Job Description

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.

Required Skills

• - 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.
• - Golang proficiency preferred
• - 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.