Job Summary

The Red Hat Software Engineering team is looking for a talented Senior Software Engineer to join us. In this role, you will help our engineering teams contribute to open source projects related to infrastructure management and virtualization. You will apply this experience to deliver enterprise-ready offerings like virtual machine migration tools for both ISVs and OEMs. Your contributions to open source projects will require a variety of languages and technologies in support of our important customers and partners.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design, develop, and implement features and work closely with our customers and partners.

What you will do:

• Create and guide development of new features and contribute to the upstream projects in Golang or Python

• Integrate changes in multiple projects and services into a consumable feature

• Submit patches for bug fixes to the community and review patches from other community members

• Work with the Quality Engineering (QE) team to ensure that projects are tested correctly

• Publicize the work the team is doing via blogs, web postings, or conference talks

What you will bring:

• Extensive programming experience with Golang, Python, or Java

• Experience with Kubernetes or Red Hat OpenShift

• Experience with Virtualization (e.g. VmWare or Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization)

• Proven experience with the Linux operating system

• Good written and verbal communication skills in English

• Ability to work equally well as an individual contributor or as a team member

• Experience with Git or GitHub

• Familiarity with continuous integration (CI) flows

The following are considered a plus:

• Agile experience, including scrums, backlog grooming, etc.

• Record of contributing to an open source project or community

• Experience with Terraform

• Experience with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

• Understanding of how CoreOS works

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