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title: 'Senior Principal Software Engineer, Feature Store at Redis'
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# Senior Principal Software Engineer, Feature Store at Redis

- **Company:** [Redis](https://feeny.ai/companies/redis)
- **Location:** Canada
- **Compensation:** $250k–$300k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-08-27
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-06
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Redis/d8092b32-0985-4fa7-9f55-6563f7f93475/application

**Skills:** Python, Go, Rust, AWS, GCP, Azure, Kafka, Flink, Redis, Spark, ML Infrastructure, Distributed Systems, Data Platforms, Feast, Tecton, Hopsworks, Real-time Feature Serving, Open-source ML Infrastructure, Data Science, Model Deployment

> Own and drive the technical vision for Redis' Feature Store product, leading architecture, implementation, and roadmap. Serve as the primary technical advisor to strategic enterprise customers in financial services, ensuring high reliability, low latency, and compliance while mentoring engineering teams.

## Job description

## Who we are

We're Redis. We built the product that runs the fast apps our world runs on. (If you checked the weather, used your credit card, or looked at your flight status online today, you’re welcome.) At Redis, you’ll work with the fastest, simplest technology in the business—whether you’re building it, telling its story, or selling it to our 10,000+ worldwide customers. We’re creating a faster world with simpler experiences. You in?

## WHO WE ARE

We’re Redis. We built the product that runs the fast apps our world runs on. (If you checked the weather, used your credit card, or looked at your flight status online today, you’re welcome.) Our feature store enables organizations to manage, serve, and monitor features at scale—delivering the foundation that banks, financial services firms, and enterprise customers depend on to power mission-critical machine learning workloads.

We’re looking for a Senior Principal Software Engineer to own and drive our feature store product. This is a unique opportunity to shape the technical direction of a product that serves some of the world’s most demanding customers, while building a world-class engineering team.

## THE ROLE

As Senior Principal Software Engineer for our Feature Store product, you will be the driving force behind our platform. You’ll own the technical vision, lead execution, and serve as the primary technical voice with our most strategic customers—including major banks and enterprise organizations with demanding requirements around performance, reliability, and compliance.

This role blends deep technical leadership with customer-facing responsibilities. You’ll spend time architecting systems, guiding the roadmap, setting engineering standards, and engaging directly with customers to understand their needs and translate them into product capabilities.

## WHAT YOU’LL DO

- Own Technical Excellence: Define and drive the architecture, design patterns, and engineering standards for the feature store platform. Set a high bar for code quality, system reliability, and performance.
- Lead V2 Implementation: Architect and execute the next generation of our feature store—building for scale, low-latency serving, and enterprise-grade reliability.
- Guide Product Roadmap: Partner with Product and leadership to shape the technical roadmap. Translate customer requirements and market trends into actionable engineering priorities.
- Engage with Strategic Customers: Serve as a trusted technical advisor to banks, financial institutions, and enterprise customers. Lead technical discussions, understand their ML infrastructure challenges, and ensure our platform meets their needs.
- Build & Mentor the Team: Recruit, coach, and develop engineers. Foster a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and continuous improvement.
- Stay Hands-On: Actively participate in design reviews, code reviews, and critical implementation work. Lead by example in technical decision-making.
- Drive Adoption of Modern Practices: Champion the use of AI-assisted development tools, observability best practices, and infrastructure automation to accelerate delivery.

## WHAT YOU’LL NEED

- 8+ years of experience in backend/infrastructure engineering, with demonstrated expertise in building large-scale distributed systems
- 3+ years in a technical leadership role—leading teams, driving architecture decisions, and mentoring engineers
- Deep experience with ML infrastructure, data platforms, or feature engineering systems at scale
- Expertise in Python, Go, and Rust
- Strong knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and modern data infrastructure (Kafka, Flink, Redis, Spark, or similar)
- Experience working with enterprise customers, particularly in regulated industries like financial services
- Excellent communication skills—able to translate complex technical concepts for both engineering teams and business stakeholders

## NICE TO HAVE

- Direct experience building or operating feature stores (Feast, Tecton, Hopsworks, or custom implementations)
- Experience with real-time feature serving at sub-millisecond latencies
- Background in financial services, banking technology, or compliance-heavy environments
- Contributions to open-source ML infrastructure projects
- Hands-on experience as a data scientist or ML practitioner—training and deploying models in production

## WHY JOIN US

- High-Impact Role: Own a critical product line and directly influence how the world’s leading organizations build ML systems
- Enterprise Customers: Work with banks, financial institutions, and Fortune 500 companies solving real, complex problems
- Technical Depth: Tackle challenges in distributed systems, low-latency serving, and ML infrastructure at scale
- Competitive Compensation: Salary, equity, and comprehensive benefits
- Flexible Work: Remote-friendly culture with flexibility to do your best work

Redis is committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome candidates of all backgrounds.

#LI-BL1 #Remote

As a global company, we value a culture of curiosity, diversity of thought, and innovation from our employees, customers, and partners. Redis is committed to a diverse and inclusive work environment where all employees’ differences are celebrated and supported, and everyone feels safe to bring their authentic selves to work. Redis is dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national orientation, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity, gender expression, Veteran status, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law. We strive to create a workplace where every voice is heard, and every idea is respected.

Redis is committed to working with and providing access and reasonable accommodation to applicants with mental and/or physical disabilities. If you think you may require accommodations for any part of the recruitment process, please send a request to recruiting@redis.com. All requests for accommodations are treated discreetly and confidentially, as practical and permitted by law.

Any offer of employment at Redis is contingent upon the successful completion of a background check, consistent with applicable laws.

Redis reserves the right to retain data longer than stated in the privacy policy https://redis.com/legal/privacy-policy/ in order to evaluate candidates.

## About Redis

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Redis provides the world’s fastest in-memory data platform, offering cloud and on-premises databases for caching, vector search, and real-time data processing.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series Unknown, backed by major growth equity)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2011
- **Founders**: Ofer Bengal (Co-Founder & Chairman), Yiftach Shoolman (Co-Founder & President)

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: Database & Data Infrastructure, Cloud Software
- **Target Customers**: B2B, serving over 10,000 customers including enterprises, digital-native companies, and developers across all industries (financial services, gaming, healthcare, e-commerce, etc.)
- **Mission Statement**: To help digital businesses set a new standard for speed by building, scaling, and deploying the fast apps our world runs on.

## Products & Services
- **Redis Cloud (DBaaS)**: Fully managed, multi-cloud database service on AWS, Azure, and GCP. Includes tiered RAM + flash storage for TB-scale at up to 80% less cost.
- **Redis Software**: On-premises/hybrid cloud deployment for enterprises needing self-managed infrastructure.
- **Redis Open Source (Redis 8.8)**: The core in-memory data structure store (strings, hashes, lists, sets, streams, etc.) with built-in replication, Lua scripting, and persistence.
- **Redis Iris**: A new product for real-time context retrieval for AI agents and applications.
- **Redis LangCache**: Tool to save on tokens for common LLM queries.
- **Redis Context Retriever**: Leverages context from anywhere for AI workloads.
- **Redis Agent Memory**: Provides agentic memory for consistent AI agent experiences.
- **Redis Data Integration**: Change Data Capture (CDC) across structured data sources.
- **Redis Flex**: Tiered storage offering more data at speed with lower cost.
- **Redis Stack**: Bundles Redis with modules for search, JSON, time series, and graph capabilities.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (private company).
- **Key Metric**: Total funding raised is estimated at over $350M from top-tier investors. The company serves **over 10,000 customers**.
- **Notable Investors**: Bain Capital Ventures, Francisco Partners, Goldman Sachs Growth (GS Growth), TCV, Dell Technologies Capital.
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Aggressive expansion into AI/ML infrastructure with products like Redis Iris and Agent Memory.
  - Strong open-source community (largest in caching, #1 cited brand for caching solutions).
  - Multi-cloud and hybrid deployment strategy.
  - Global presence with offices in San Francisco, London, San Jose (CA), Austin, Tel-Aviv, Sofia, and Singapore.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Performance Leadership**: Redis is widely recognized as the world’s fastest in-memory database, with sub-millisecond read/write speeds.
- **Massive Ecosystem & Community**: The largest open-source community in caching, with extensive client libraries (Python, Node, Java, Go, .Net, etc.) and SDKs.
- **Developer Trust**: Redis is the #1 cited brand for caching solutions, deeply embedded in modern app architectures.
- **Unified Platform**: Combines caching, vector search, streaming, session management, and AI context retrieval in one platform, reducing the need to stitch together multiple tools.
- **Multi-Cloud & On-Prem Flexibility**: Deploy anywhere (AWS, Azure, GCP, or self-managed) with active-active geo-replication for zero-downtime failover.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI-Native Data Platform**: Major push into AI infrastructure with products like Redis Iris, Agent Memory, and Context Retriever to serve the agentic AI and LLM market.
- **Reducing Total Cost of Ownership**: Introducing tiered storage (RAM + flash) to handle TB-scale workloads at up to 80% lower cost than pure in-memory.
- **Simplifying Developer Experience**: Focus on seamless integration with popular LLM coding tools and frameworks.
- **Enterprise Scale & Compliance**: Continuing to build out enterprise features for security, compliance, and high availability (Active-Active, multi-region replication).

## Why Work Here
- **Engineering Culture**: Redis is an engineering-led company with a strong open-source heritage. The core database is written in ANSI C, and the team values performance, simplicity, and speed.
- **Core Values**: The company emphasizes "Be Real" (truth-tellers), "Be Unreasonable" (push boundaries), "Simplicity is Everything," and "Speed is our Superpower."
- **Global & Distributed**: Offices in 7 locations across the US, Europe, and Israel. The culture supports hybrid/remote flexibility depending on role and location.
- **Impact**: Engineers work on technology that powers the world’s fastest apps and is used by thousands of enterprises globally. Direct contribution to the open-source community.
- **Leadership**: Led by CEO Rowan Trollope (former Cisco/Synaptics executive) with a strong technical leadership team including CTO Benjamin Renaud.
- **Growth Trajectory**: As a private company with strong investor backing and a clear AI strategy, there is significant opportunity for career growth as the company scales.

## Sources
1. [redis.io](https://redis.io/company/)
2. [redis.io](https://redis.io/about/)
3. [redis.io](https://redis.io/company/careers/)
4. [redis.io](https://redis.io/company/careers/current-job-openings/)

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