Senior Software Engineer

About the job

Red Hat Software Engineering is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Developer Experience Engineering team in Bangalore, India. In this role, you will help build, modify, improve and support a user-facing Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering on top of Red Hat OpenShift. Using your expertise and principles of software engineering, automation and continuous improvement, you will help create a SaaS product where availability, reliability, and security are threaded through the entire application life cycle, not treated as an afterthought. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will write new software as required to build a new SaaS product and also develop tools to automate software deployments, upgrades, scaling, monitoring, alerting, and testing. Successful applicants must reside in a country where Red Hat is registered to do business.

What you will do

• Develop secure, reliable and scalable distributed systems and services, primarily in Golang, OpenShift and cloud-native technologies,

• Contributing to the design, development and testing of the products or services both upstream and downstream

• Innovate/Create PoC's to solve meaningful business challenges

• Define, review & execute technical best practices

• Work with the SaaS team (and/or peer/OpenShift teams) to prevent outages and mitigate risks.

• Participate in the community by writing blogs, participating in forums, and speaking at user groups and conferences

Develop secure, reliable and scalable distributed systems and services, primarily in Golang, OpenShift and cloud-native technologies,

Contributing to the design, development and testing of the products or services both upstream and downstream

Innovate/Create PoC's to solve meaningful business challenges

Define, review & execute technical best practices

Work with the SaaS team (and/or peer/OpenShift teams) to prevent outages and mitigate risks.

Participate in the community by writing blogs, participating in forums, and speaking at user groups and conferences

What you will bring

• Practical development experience in a language like Go, Java or Python. Expertise in at least one of the programming languages to build enterprise applications and/or backend services/applications.

• Familiarity with frameworks, libraries, or SDKs for your language of choice

• Understanding of distributed systems and common distributed system failure domains

• Background in Linux or UNIX operating systems, CI/CD pipelines

• Experience writing reliable enterprise-grade software

• Familiarity with cloud-based relational databases, object stores, and virtual machines

• Experience working with a globally distributed team and communicating between different teams

Practical development experience in a language like Go, Java or Python. Expertise in at least one of the programming languages to build enterprise applications and/or backend services/applications.

Familiarity with frameworks, libraries, or SDKs for your language of choice

Understanding of distributed systems and common distributed system failure domains

Background in Linux or UNIX operating systems, CI/CD pipelines

Experience writing reliable enterprise-grade software

Familiarity with cloud-based relational databases, object stores, and virtual machines

Experience working with a globally distributed team and communicating between different teams

Knowledge of computer networking, computer security

Managing a production service with Red Hat OpenShift or Kubernetes

Designing and carrying out security incident response procedures

Developing a Kubernetes controller, operator, or platform component

Operations experience with a production user-facing application

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