Senior 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 Software Engineering team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Application Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team in Westford, MA. In this role, you will help build the platform to run all user-facing Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offerings on top of Red Hat OpenShift using SRE industry best practices. This role will contain more coding than operations activities. Among other skills, you will need to have experience developing software systems for running other software or applications and have an understanding of distributed systems, monitoring, and alerting best practices. As a Senior Software Engineer, you should also have the ability to work in a globally distributed team.

Primary job responsibilities

* Create software delivery pipelines to increase service team velocity and confidence
* Establish and enforce SRE best practices through platform constraints and interface requirements
* Help service teams develop software operators against Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes APIs to manage service life cycle events automatically
* Some 24/7 on-call work may be required

Required skills

* Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, engineering, math, or an equivalent degree or experience
* Experience developing software systems for running other software or applications
* Understanding of distributed systems and common distributed systems failure domains
* Experience testing in a distributed environment
* Understanding of monitoring and alerting best practices
* Ability to work in a globally distributed team

The following experience is considered a plus:

* Previous experience managing a production service with Red Hat OpenShift or Kubernetes
* Previous experience developing a Kubernetes controller, operator, or platform component
* Operations experience with a production user-facing application
* Previous experience writing a continuous delivery (CD) pipeline for highly available applications

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