Senior Software Engineer - OpenShift Virtualization

Job Summary:

The Red Hat Engineering team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join us in Ra’anana, Israel. In this role, you will contribute to KubeVirt (https://kubevirt.io/) and its adjacent projects, focusing on making it more reliable and efficient. You would be expected to work with and contribute to industry leading technologies such as Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift, Libvirt, and Qemu. You'll play a significant part in enhancing our offering, from upstream development, to customer delivery.

What you will do:

• Play an active role in container and virtualization-related projects and communities like Red Hat OpenShift and KubeVirt

• Create and guide new feature development; contribute to open source projects in Golang and Python 

• Coordinate with team leads, architects, and other engineers on the design and architecture of our work

• Take responsibility 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

• Partner with Quality Engineering (QE) peers to ensure that projects are tested correctly

• Publicize the team's work through blogs, web postings, or conference talks

What you will bring:

• Experience in software design and development.

• Experience working in a Linux environment with at least one language like Go, Python, Java, or C/C++.

• Experience with a container ecosystem like Docker, Kubernetes, or Red Hat OpenShift.

• Experience and care for sound DevOps principles

• Familiarity with virtualization technologies such as KVM

• 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

• Experience with open source development

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