Senior Software Engineer - Red Hat OpenShift

About the Job:

The Red Hat OpenShift Engineering team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join us in Bangalore, India. In this role, you will work in an agile team and contribute to the engineering of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform and its supporting components in the core of Kubernetes. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be a key contributor in implementing customer requirements and ensuring the evolving needs of Red Hat OpenShift’s rapidly growing customer base are met. You’ll need to work with various engineering teams as well as product management and other key stakeholders  across the product to identify and prioritize features to existing and upcoming releases. You will work proactively with the open source Kubernetes community and lead the implementation of important improvements from the project in our software product.

What will you do?

• Develop features and bug fixes in Kubernetes and OpenShift within an agile team and as part of a global development organization.

• Become responsible for our product quality, participate in peer code reviews, continuous integration and delivery, respond to security threats

• Work with Engineering, Product Management, and Support stakeholders to prioritize customer facing features during the planning, development, and delivery.

• Act as a point of escalation for implementation of critical customer driven features and bug resolution.

• Follow the Kubernetes community and proactively lead the implementation of important improvements from the project in our product

• Assist in developing architectural and design principles to improve performance, capacity, and scalability of product or customer built solution on software product

What will you bring?

• An engineering degree or higher, or equivalent in computer science or a related field 5+ years of experience writing code in programming languages such as Go and Java.

• Feature design experience (LLD), preferred (HLD and LLD)

• Experience with containers and Kubernetes

• Problem-solving and troubleshooting skills with Root Cause Analysis experience

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

• Hands-on learning and mid to senior level experience, demonstrating implementation ownership of complex features individually and as a collaboration with others.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

The following are considered a plus:

• Familiarity with Red Hat OpenShift, CoreOS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) or Fedora

• Knowledge sharing of best practices in distributed systems

• Experience of working with customers and helping them in their transformation journey as product advocate would be advantageous

• Understanding of open source development models

• Prior participation in open source community software development or leadership

• Familiarity with enterprise application development

• Familiar with test-based development and agile or scrum methodologies is a big plus

• Familiar with various observability tools: monitoring, logging, profiling, etc

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