Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer - OpenShift Workloads

OpenShift Container Platform is Red Hat’s premier container initiative which oversees multiple product lines. It includes Red Hat CoreOS, a Linux based operating system optimized for containers, and OpenShift, an orchestration PaaS framework based on Kubernetes. As an engineer on this effort you will be expected to work in an Agile environment to help keep our products and services competitive with the ever changing container landscape. We’re looking for engineers who are interested in working on OpenShift, Kubernetes, operating systems, job scheduling and queuing for AI/ML workloads

Job Responsibilities

• Develop features and bug fixes in Kubernetes and OpenShift within an agile team, working on Kueue, LeaderWorkSet and JobSet

• Become responsible for our product quality, participate in peer code reviews, continuous integration and delivery, respond to security threats

• Act as a point of escalation for customer and internal teams

• Participate in architectural discussions of system designs, programming interfaces, and inter-dependencies of control plane, operators, CI, etc., both in the Kubernetes upstream communities and the OpenShift project

• Ensure that there are test plans for the code you create and that documentation is correct

• Collaborate with other engineering teams on integrations

• Ability to thrive in a rapidly changing environment

Required Skills

• Good understanding of Linux operating system

• Knowledge of working with Go programming language

• Experience building and deploying container-based applications

• Understanding Kubernetes architecture

• Understanding of how Open Source and Free Software communities work

Preferred skills

• Experience troubleshooting complex issues in distributed systems

• Demonstrable expertise in at least one of Python, C, C++, Rust, Ruby

• Experience with Kubernetes and writing operators

• Experience in developing client tools and controllers using Kubernetes libraries

• Experience with development for public cloud services (AWS, GCE, Azure)

• Ability to present to customers and stakeholders

• Previous contributions to open source projects or being an open source maintainer

• Involvement in a Kubernetes or Kubernetes Special Interest Group

About Red Hat

Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver high-performing Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Spread across 40+ countries, our associates work flexibly across work environments, from in-office, to office-flex, to fully remote, depending on the requirements of their role. Red Hatters are encouraged to bring their best ideas, no matter their title or tenure. We're a leader in open source because of our open and inclusive environment. We hire creative, passionate people ready to contribute their ideas, help solve complex problems, and make an impact.

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