Senior Software Engineer - Ansible Automation Platform

About the Job

The Ansible engineering team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer with a focus on backend web and API development to join our team. In this role, you will work closely with a group of talented engineers helping to improve efficiency and drive results through your contributions. The ideal candidate is friendly, collaborative, and passionate about working with others to achieve success

The job’s focus will be on expanding our enterprise Ansible offering through seamless integration with other configuration management and automation tooling.  Through developing and maintaining the suite of projects Ansible offers as part of the Ansible Automation Platform’s content management arm, you will play a key role in helping us develop new features that allow our applications to be used in new ways, as well as helping to deliver these new tools for Ansible content creators and users.  You will work closely with engineers across the Ansible organization to deliver features that can be used across our projects

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

What you will do

• Design, develop and test new backend features for Ansible Automation Platform

• Troubleshoot bugs and regressions, working closely with Quality Engineers to deliver working and feature-complete solutions

• Participate in product release cycles, deploying code to integration, staging and production environments, integrating with CI/CD tooling

• Perform software updates, peer code reviews, testing, and CVE analysis

• Help mentor and learn from other engineers in a highly-collaborative team environment, as well as participate in peer code reviews

• Regularly participate in the team’s Agile scrum process, demos and check-ins with Product Management and other stakeholders to align on use-cases and plan new initiatives

What you will bring

• Significant experience with Python, Django and Django Rest Framework

• Experience with Python unit and integration testing with tools such as pytest

• Experience with Linux

• Experience with SQL and relational databases such as PostgreSQL

• Experience with utilizing container management platforms and development environments like Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker/Docker Compose, and Podman

• Experience with CI/CD systems like Jenkins and GitHub Actions

• Experience working on large-scale projects utilizing version control (we use Git and GitHub/GitLab), open-source experience is a plus

• Demonstrated ability to quickly and accurately troubleshoot system and performance issues

• Interest in participating in the software design and architecture process

• Good communications skills, and experience working directly with and presenting to stakeholders

• An aptitude for jumping in to help unblock, mentor and learn from others

• An agile mindset, with openness and flexibility to pivot towards the highest priority work items as needed

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The salary range for this position is $116,270.00 - $191,840.00. Actual offer will be based on your qualifications.

Pay Transparency

Red Hat determines compensation based on several factors including but not limited to job location, experience, applicable skills and training, external market value, and internal pay equity. Annual salary is one component of Red Hat’s compensation package. This position may also be eligible for bonus, commission, and/or equity. For positions with Remote-US locations, the actual salary range for the position may differ based on location but will be commensurate with job duties and relevant work experience. 

About Red Hat

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