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Job Description
Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat is seeking a skilled Principal Software Engineer to join their team. This role involves developing, scaling, and operating solutions using Site Reliability Engineering principles.
About the Role
- Manage, deploy, and operate cloud solutions at scale using Site Reliability Engineering principles.
- Participate in the design and development of new features to enable Open Shift 'as-a-service' across multiple public clouds.
- Design and write automation software to provision, upgrade, monitor, and heal a large global fleet of Open Shift clusters deployed across multiple public clouds.
- Identify single points of failure and other high-risk architecture issues; propose and implement more resilient resolutions.
- Interact with multiple teams within Red Hat and with the open source community to contribute to both the upstream and downstream projects to deliver functionality.
- Participate in product release cycles, deploying code to integration, staging, and production environments, integrating with CI/CD tooling, monitoring, and change management.
- Perform software updates, peer code reviews, testing, and CVE analysis; respond to security threats.
- Interact with automated monitoring and healing infrastructure to ensure healthy environments.
- Provide engineering support to Red Hat's global technical support team to resolve customer issues.
- Help and develop peers through knowledge sharing, mentoring, and collaboration.
- Create and maintain standard operating procedures (SOPs) for performing maintenance tasks, applying configuration changes, and remediating problems in our environment.
- Participate in a follow-the-sun on-call rotation.
About the Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience using object-oriented languages; Golang is preferred.
- Extensive experience managing Linux-based systems in a public cloud such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Proficient experience with enterprise systems monitoring; knowledge of Prometheus is preferred.
- Extensive experience with enterprise configuration management such as Ansible, Puppet, or Chef.
- Proficient experience delivering hosted cloud services.
- 1+ year experience with container-related technologies like Docker or Kubernetes.
- Experience with containers on Linux.
- Solid understanding of standard TCP/IP networking and common protocols like DNS and HTTP.
- Good verbal and written communication skills in English.
About Red Hat
Red Hat is the world's leading provider of enterprise software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver high-performing Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies.
Red Hat's culture is built on the open source principles of transparency, collaboration, and inclusion, where the best ideas can come from anywhere and anyone.
Red Hat is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer.