Principal Software Engineer
Westford, MA

Job Description

Company description

At Red Hat, we connect an innovative community of customers, partners, and contributors to deliver an open source stack of trusted, high-performing solutions. We offer cloud, Linux, middleware, storage, and virtualization technologies, together with award-winning global customer support, consulting, and implementation services. Red Hat is a rapidly growing company supporting more than 90% of Fortune 500 companies.

Job summary

The Red Hat Engineering team is looking for a Principle Software Engineer to join the Kubernetes management team in Westford, MA. In this role, you will design and implement management solutions for containers, virtual machines, storage, and bare metal hardware, contributing to innovative technologies like Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat Ceph Storage, etc. You'll collaborate with multiple Red Hat's engineering teams and open source communities around the world as part of a geographically distributed team. As a Principal Software Engineer, you'll need to be motivated and curious with passion for problem-solving, Linux technologies, and open source.

Primary job responsibilities

* Play an active role in container and virtualization-related projects and communities around KubeVirt, Kubernetes, and Red Hat OpenShift
* Create and guide new feature development; contribute to open source projects in Golang, Python, or JavaScript
* Become responsible for the quality of our offerings, participate in peer code reviews and continuous integration (CI), and respond to security threats
* Lead technical architecture and design discussions with peers from both within and outside of the team
* Coordinate with team leads, architects, and other engineers on the design and architecture of our offerings
* Work with our Red Hat's global customer support team and partner support teams on resolving customer issues
* Work with the Quality Engineering (QE) team to ensure that projects are tested correctly
* Publicize the team's work through blogs, web postings, or conference talks

Required skills

* Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent working experience
* Interest in the container ecosystem (Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift)
* 5+ years of experience in a Linux environment with at least one language like Golang, Python, Ruby, JavaScript, Java, or C or C++
* Thorough knowledge of how client applications communicate over HTTP with services located on different web properties
* Ability to quickly learn new technologies with minimal guidance; willingness to learn and work in languages like Go or React.js
* Proficient written and verbal communication skills in English

The following are considered a plus:

* Familiarity with bare metal provisioning, virtualization, clusters, storage and container-related technologies
* Open source development experience
* Experience with web application development in a microservices architecture
* Operations or site reliability engineering (SRE) background

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