[Hiring] AI Agent Engineer @Redpanda Data

Role Description

Redpanda is looking for an AI Agent Engineer to join our team in Poland. Ideal candidates are engineers who take initiative, balance speed with quality, and are comfortable working on open-ended problems.

Redpanda is building the Agentic Data Plane, a platform designed to let enterprises safely deploy AI agents across their entire data infrastructure. We’re deploying AI agents across our company to automate how we work and make our internal operations as cutting-edge as our external products. This position reports into Engineering. In this role, you’ll partner with stakeholders in our G&A teams (HR, Finance, Legal) to identify opportunities to increase productivity and then build the AI agents to address these needs. This involves:

• Designing agentic workflows
• Connecting data sources
• Ensuring observability and governance
• Pushing the boundaries of what ADP can do

You’ll also work closely with other engineers to provide input on ADP functionality and improve the product for our customers.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of software engineering best practices (Git, testing, clean code)
• Understanding of agentic workflows and connectivity to data sources
• Awareness of security and data access concerns, including understanding of application permission models and audit logging
• Professional English fluency

Requirements

• Work with internal stakeholders in Finance, HR, and Legal to deeply understand their workflows and identify high-impact opportunities for AI automation
• Work cross-functionally to bridge the gap between technical possibility and business need
• Design, develop, and maintain AI agents and agentic workflows using LLMs to automate complex tasks
• Move from "idea" to "prototype" in days, not months, iterating quickly based on direct feedback from your users
• Ensure the AI tools you build are reliable, measurable, and seamlessly integrated into our existing ecosystem of tools
• Approach every internal request with empathy and kindness
• Use Redpanda’s Agentic Data Plane and other industry Agentic tools

Benefits

• Be part of a fast-moving, diverse, people-first organization
• Work with team members around the globe
• Culture based on trust, transparency, communication, and kindness

Nice to Have

• Experience working with AI tools for software development (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot)
• A portfolio of AI projects, either personal or professional, including—AI bots, agents, or automations
• Experience with Redpanda, Apache Kafka, or similar event streaming platforms
• Familiarity with G&A tooling (e.g., Greenhouse, Netsuite, Ironclad, or Slack API)
• Previous experience in a startup or a "forward-deployed" capacity