Senior Software Engineer
Boston, 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 Senior Software Engineer to join us in Europe (France, Poland, Czech Republic, Spain, or Italy). In this role, you will be expected to contribute to the engineering of capabilities around the on premise deployment and life cycle management of Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift. You'll play a specific part in defining the architecture for Kubernetes-native infrastructure (KNI) and in developing these from inception, through upstream development, to delivery in Red Hat's offerings. You'll be heavily involved with upstream community projects and with Red Hat OpenShift. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will become part of a distributed team working on your own, but in close collaboration and regular communication with other team members and upstream developers. You'll need to be passionate about modern software development and open source and have broad software engineering experience and an interest in hardware management.

Primary job responsibilities

* Develop and maintain multiple components of Red Hat OpenShift
* Focus on the integration of Red Hat OpenShift with infrastructure management projects like the Ironic OpenStack project
* Get involved in open source community projects
* Develop new architectures as needed
* Perform test-driven development

Required skills

* 5+ years of significant software development experience
* Experience with programming in Python and Golang
* Experience with and understanding of Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift
* Experience with and understanding of hardware management and operations
* Ability to identify good architecture and develop new architectures
* Deep understanding of cloud computing and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) is a plus
* Focus on test-driven development with good knowledge of unit testing frameworks and methodologies
* Packaging experience with distributions using RPM Package Manager is a plus

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