Senior Software Engineer

Red Hat is seeking a Software Engineer to develop, scale, and operate our OpenShift managed cloud services. OpenShift is Red Hat’s enterprise Kubernetes distribution. As an engineer on the Red Hat managed cloud services team, you will contribute to running OpenShift at scale by enabling customer self-service, making our monitoring and observability systems more sustainable, and eliminating work through automation.

On the team, you will have the opportunity to influence the complex challenges of scale which are unique to Red Hat managed cloud services while using your skills in coding, operations, and large-scale distributed system design.

Red Hat relies on teamwork and openness for its success. We are a global team and strive to cultivate a transparent environment that makes room for different voices. We learn from our failures in a blameless environment to support the continuous improvement of the team. At Red Hat, your contributions have more visibility than most large companies, and visibility means career opportunities and growth.

What you will do

The day-to-day responsibilities of an engineer on the team involve working with live systems and coding automation. You will be expected to:

• Contribute code to increase the scalability and reliability of the service

• Contribute software tests and participate in peer review to increase the quality of our codebase

• Help and develop peers’ capabilities through knowledge sharing, mentoring, and collaboration

• Participate in a regular on-call schedule, including occasional paid weekends and holidays

• Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems

• Resolve customer issues escalated from the Red Hat Global Support team

• Work within a small agile team to develop and improve software, support your peers, plan and self-improve

• Support of critical services such as identity management and role based access control

• Contribute to and support orchestration and cloud based services

• Previous history and/or experience in a FedRAMP environment is a plus

What you will bring

A bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field involving software or systems engineering is required. However, hands-on experience that demonstrates your ability and interest in software engineering and cloud services is valuable to us and may be considered in lieu of degree requirements. You must have some experience programming in at least one of these languages: Python, Golang, Java, C, C++ or another object-oriented language. You must have experience working with public clouds such as AWS, GCP, or Azure. You must also be able to collaboratively troubleshoot and solve problems in a team setting.

As an engineer on the team, you will be most successful if you have some experience troubleshooting an as-a-service offering (SaaS, PaaS, etc.) and some experience working with complex distributed systems. Direct experience with Kubernetes or OpenShift is a plus. We like to see a demonstrated ability to debug, optimize code and automate routine tasks. We are Red Hat, so you need a basic understanding of Unix/Linux operating systems.

A US citizenship and/or fulfilled requirements as required by a FedRAMP environment and/or US Government regulations.

Desired skills

• 5+ years of experience managing Linux servers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS, or Fedora hosted at a cloud provider such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Compute Engine (GCE), or Microsoft Azure

• US Citizenship

• 3+ years of experience with enterprise systems monitoring; knowledge of Prometheus is a plus

• 3+ years of experience with enterprise configuration management software like Ansible by Red Hat, Puppet, or Chef

• 2+ years of experience programming with at least one object-oriented language; Golang, Java, or Python are preferred

• 2+ years of experience delivering a hosted service

• Demonstrated ability to quickly and accurately troubleshoot system issues

• Solid understanding of standard TCP/IP networking and common protocols like DNS and HTTP

• Solid communications skills and experience working directly with and presenting to customers

• 1+ year(s) of experience with Kubernetes is a plus

• 1+ year(s) of experience with docker-based containers is a plus