Principal/Senior Software Engineer - Red Hat’s OpenShift Container Platform

The Red Hat OpenShift Installer team is looking for a Principal/Senior Software Engineer to join us in Ireland, Czech Republic, Portugal or Italy as remote or onsite in our offices. The Red Hat OpenShift Installer team is responsible for the development and maintenance of OpenShift installation tooling used to deploy OpenShift clusters, with specific focus on public clouds such as AWS, Azure and GCP. This includes also provisioning and cleanup of underlying cloud infrastructure resources needed for cluster deployments.

You’ll be a key member of our OpenShift team and focus on building world-class technologies in hybrid cloud, system engineering, and Kubernetes management. In this role, you will contribute to the engineering of features related to the deployment and lifecycle management of Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift. You’ll play a specific part in defining the architecture for our deployment infrastructure and in developing these from inception, through upstream development to delivery in Red Hat products. You’ll also contribute to continuous integration testing and, together with the rest of the team, will be responsible for product quality. You’ll need to be passionate about modern software development and open source and have broad software engineering experience, combined with Linux, networking, containers and cloud platforms management skills.

What you will do 

• Focus on advancing and extending deployment tooling of Red Hat OpenShift to target cloud platforms, especially AWS, Azure and GCP

• Develop and maintain multiple components of Red Hat OpenShift

• Implement and maintain Continuous Integration testing for OpenShift deployment features to support excellent quality, stability and consistency of the platform

• Investigate, communicate, and troubleshoot escalated issues and propose systemic solutions to avoid similar problems happening again

• Keep learning cloud platforms to stay up to date with new and obsoleted features

• Contribute to team wide adoption of AI tooling to improve overall team performance

• Lead and mentor engineers in building implementations of new designs

• Get involved in open source community projects

What you will bring

• 5+ years of software development experience

• Proficiency in Go and Shell programming is required; familiarity with other languages is a plus

• Experience with and understanding of Kubernetes architecture

• Experience with cloud infrastructure provisioning and management on at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP)

• Experience with continuous integration frameworks like Prow or Jenkins

• Experience with and understanding of Linux, networking and containers

• Knowledge of large-scale deployment architectures, ability to debug problems in complex loosely coupled environments

• Focus on test-driven development with good knowledge of unit testing frameworks and methodologies

• Packaging experience with distributions using RPM and with container-based deployment

• Passion for open source software development

• Solid written and verbal communication skills in English

The following are considered a plus

• Good track record of contributions to relevant open source projects

• Passion for leveraging AI tools for personal and team growth

• Understanding of secure development principles

About Red Hat

Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver high-performing Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Spread across 40+ countries, our associates work flexibly across work environments, from in-office, to office-flex, to fully remote, depending on the requirements of their role. Red Hatters are encouraged to bring their best ideas, no matter their title or tenure. We're a leader in open source because of our open and inclusive environment. We hire creative, passionate people ready to contribute their ideas, help solve complex problems,