Principal Software Engineer

Container Tools Principal Software Engineer

Red Hat Engineering is looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join the Container Tools  team with a focus on container storage and image management.  In this role, you’ll be part of a distributed team and will coordinate work with other engineers, product managers, product owners, scrum masters, and community members to write new features for a rapidly changing container ecosystem.  The role involves working in an agile environment on feature enhancements, bug fixes, and test automation.  You will help define the architecture of new projects or features, and develop those from inception through to adoption.  Expect to write code, review pull requests, fix bugs, update docs, and work with other teams to design complete solutions.

Since container technology is still evolving, it’s not expected that every candidate will come in with the experience required to start submitting pull requests on day one.  This is a great opportunity to learn how to work in a fast paced environment.  You’ll get to work on many emerging technologies, such as podman, skopeo, sigstore and the efficient and secure distribution of AI models and other artifacts. You will need to work independently because sometimes with these new technologies, documentation isn’t abundant but there are always team members around to help.

Primary Job Responsibilities

• Contribute to adding features requested by stakeholders to containers storage/image libraries to be vendored into products like Podman, Podman Desktop, OpenShift or Kubernetes.

• Participate on a scrum team and complete tasks assigned within sprint boundaries

• Give demos to your peers on work you’ve completed each sprint

• Work with upstream communities like Podman, skopeo, buildah and Kubernetes

• Ensure test plans for the code you create exist and that documentation is correct

• Design and implement automated test cases

• Analyze defects, design solutions, and engineer fixes

• Quickly respond to security threats

Required skills

• Solid knowledge of Linux (using linux as workstation or server to run applications)

• Experience of how Open Source and Free Software communities work

• Experience with at least one of the following: Golang, Rust

• Experience with Linux containers or Kubernetes

• Ability to learn new programming languages

• Good written and verbal English communication skills

• Experience with how to use git

• Experience in making an effective code review

• Experience with Continuous Integration / Delivery

• Experience with at least one public cloud

• Ability to thrive in a rapidly changing environment

The following are considered a plus:

• Knowledgeable about Linux Kernel and kernel modules (GPU support and compilation)

• Knowledge of AI models, container registry services

• Experience with Python

• Experience with Linux system programming

• Ability to present to customers and stakeholders

• RHCSA certification or Red Hat Certified Specialist in Containers

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