Software Engineer

The Red Hat Satellite Engineering team is seeking an enthusiastic, highly motivated, and versatile Software Engineer to join our dynamic team in Raleigh, NC. This role is an excellent opportunity for a developing professional to gain experience across both development and quality engineering functions, contributing to the robustness, reliability, and performance of our solutions. The ideal candidate will possess a technical background in Linux environments, proficiency in full-stack software development in languages and frameworks such as Python, Pytest, Ruby on Rails, React (JavaScript), and an understanding of networking and system administration.

This role will involve contributing to a system management solution called Red Hat Satellite which is a powerful systems management platform designed to efficiently deploy, configure, and maintain large-scale Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) infrastructure. It acts as a centralized control plane for content management (patches and security updates), life cycle management (controlled rollout of changes), provisioning, and subscription tracking. 

Red Hat Satellite is fundamentally built upon a robust foundation of open-source projects, primarily Foreman and its plugin Katello. Foreman provides the core capabilities for host provisioning and configuration management, acting as the main interface for system administration. Katello integrates Pulp (for content storage and distribution) and Candlepin (for subscription tracking) to manage all Red Hat content, repositories, and software entitlements and their content life cycle support. Our test automation is written in Python (Robottelo), mostly with Pytest.

Our team is global, and our stack is open-sourced, including technologies like Python, Pytest, Ruby on Rails, React and PostgreSQL, with development and operations primarily focused on RHEL and Fedora environments. Our team proactively and regularly utilizes AI-assisted development tools and experiments with emerging AI technologies to identify and incorporate new AI capabilities into our existing software development workflows and tooling. You'll have the opportunity to work on real-life issues of an on-premise enterprise product with thousands of existing users.

What will you do?

• Contribute to the design and development of features and bug fixes for our software solutions. 

• Define test coverage and responsible for writing and maintaining automated tests for fixed bugs and new features, in collaboration with the rest of the team.

• Collaborate with other team members on analyzing and fixing bugs in the project.

• Incorporate feedback from other team members during PR reviews to drive development tasks to a successful conclusion.

• Collaborate across time zones and geolocations with cross-functional teams, including other engineering teams, product management, UX designers.

• Publicly communicate planned changes with developers and users, gathering their inputs and incorporating them into your work.

• Work on prototypes for new enhancements, experimenting with new tools and projects to further improve the system.

• Demonstrate contributions to stakeholders and the community.

What will you bring?

• The ideal candidate will possess knowledge and is experienced in software development using languages and frameworks such as Python, Ruby on Rails, or React (JavaScript).

• Familiarity with writing tests (e.g., unit, integration and end to end tests) in a relevant language, preferably with exposure to testing frameworks like Pytest.

• Experience working with the Linux operating system environment, command line, and file system navigation. Experience with enterprise distributions (RHEL, CentOS, Fedora) is helpful but not required.

• Basic understanding of relational databases and database interaction concepts, with exposure to a system like PostgreSQL being a plus.