Software Engineer, OpenShift
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 Software Engineer to join us in Boston, MA. In this role, you will serve as an OpenShift engineer, joining a team that builds the next generation installation and management technology for the Red Hat OpenShift and CoreOS offerings. You will be a key member of our OpenShift Windows containers team, focusing on building world-class technologies demonstrating Red Hat's thought and market leadership in hybrid cloud, system engineering, and Kubernetes management. You'll need to be able to work in a fast-paced and sometimes chaotic environment, with the goal of making our end users and customers more successful with every release.

Primary job responsibilities

* Work closely with engineers on Red Hat OpenShift to become a contributor to both the upstream and downstream Red Hat OpenShift projects to deliver functionality
* Interact with multiple teams within Red Hat as well as with the open source community
* Communicate with end users through Slack, forums, and email
* Develop critical functionality to enable Windows containers on Red Hat OpenShift

Required skills

* Degree in computer science or equivalent experience
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
* Ability to work with Windows servers and containers, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Fedora, Go programming language and technologies like cgroups, Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux), containers, and Kubernetes on a day-to-day basis

Familiarity with the following is considered a plus:

* Red Hat Ansible
* Red Hat OpenShift
* Cloud providers like Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), or Google Compute Engine (GCE)

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