Principal Software Engineer

Job Summary

The Red Hat Engineering team is looking for a Senior / Principal Software Engineer to join us in EMEA. In this role, you will contribute to the engineering of features related to the deployment and life cycle management of Migration Toolkit for Virtualization (MTV). You'll play a specific part in enhancing our offering, through upstream development, to delivery.

What You Will Do

• Play an active role in container and virtualization-related projects and communities like Forklift, Red Hat OpenShift, and KubeVirt
• Create and guide new feature development; contribute to open source projects in Golang, Ansible and Python
• Coordinate with team leads, architects, and other engineers on the design and architecture of our work
• Become responsible for the quality of our offerings, participate in peer code reviews and continuous integration (CI), and respond to security threats
• Work with Red Hat's Global Customer Support team and partner support teams on resolving customer issues
• Work with the Quality Engineering (QE) team to ensure that projects are tested correctly
• Publicize the team's work through blogs, web postings, or conference talks
  
  

What You Will Bring

• Advanced experience working in a Linux environment, GitHub with at least one language like Golang, Python or C/C++
• Experience with a container ecosystem like Docker, Kubernetes, or Red Hat OpenShift.
• Experience with microservices architectures and concepts including scale, APIs, versioning, monitoring, etc.
• Knowledge of Virtualization technologies such as KVM and virt-v2v.
• User-level familiarity with vSphere, RHV, or OpenStack
• Ability to examine various technological areas deeply and deliver solutions
• Debugging skills
• Proficient written and verbal communication skills in English
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent working experience
  
  

The Following Are Considered a Plus

• Experience with cloud development
• Admin-level familiarity with vSphere, RHV or OpenStack
• Familiarity with operator framework, networking, or storage
• Experience with Ansible
• Experience with Kubernetes build system (Bazel)
• Experience with open source development
  
  

About Red Hat

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