Principal Software Engineer - OpenShift

About the Job:

The Red Hat Engineering team is looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join the OpenShift Cluster Manager team. OpenShift Cluster Manager is responsible for provisioning and life cycling Managed OpenShift services on AWS, GCP, and Azure.

You'll enjoy a fun and engaging work environment, with the opportunity to collaborate openly with a selection of dynamic and diverse agile teams, working to create value for our customers and partners. This is a great opportunity to craft and hone your skills while working with a wide range of modern languages, frameworks, and technologies including Golang, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Observability, CI/CD, and our extensive portfolio of cloud-native products and services

What will you do?

• Be responsible for contributions in a technical environment, from coding to architecture

  
  

• Work closely with members of our Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Quality Engineering (QE), Documentation, Product Security and Product Management teams

  
  

• Lead engineers in building implementations of new designs

  
  

• Design and build scalable, distributed solutions

  
  

• Create and guide new feature development; contribute to projects in Golang

  
  

• Be responsible for our product quality, participate in peer code reviews, continuous integration (CI) and delivery (CD), respond to security threats

  
  

• Coordinate with team leads, architects and other engineers on product design and architecture

  
  

• Mentor other engineers; lead them in building excellent services

  
  

What will you bring?

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a technology-related discipline

  
  

• 10+ years of software development experience with at least one language like Golang, Java, C or C++

  
  

• Solid experience with Linux, cloud computing, distributed web technologies, high availability, and build tools

  
  

• Experience with microservices architecture and concepts including APIs, versioning, monitoring, etc.

  
  

• Experience with Microsoft Azure

  
  

• Experience with Automation, DevOps CI/CD tool kits such as Ansible, Jenkins or GitHub Actions

  
  

• Experience with Observability, such as Prometheus metrics, alerts or Service Level Objectives

  
  

• Experience with container technologies like Docker and Kubernetes

  
  

• Good written and verbal communication skills to handle communication in a distributed team

  
  

• Ability to work in a globally distributed team

  
  

• Ability to examine various technological areas deeply and deliver solutions

  
  

The following are considered as a plus:

• Familiarity with DevOps or SRE background

  
  

• Open source development experience

  
  

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