Software Engineer - Kubernetes/OpenShift Performance and Scale

About the job

The Red Hat Performance and Scale Team is looking for an experienced Software Engineer to join our passionate global team to test, measure, analyze software performance and improve performance and scale of Red Hat OpenShift, the industry leading enterprise Kubernetes platform to help user workloads do more.

This role will focus on the scalability of Red Hat Openshift in our Managed Services (SaaS) offerings across AWS, Azure, GCP and other cloud providers. The Engineer will leverage their knowledge of software engineering and systems performance in the cloud to theorize bottlenecks and limitations, devise test plans, develop test frameworks, execute workloads, collect and analyze data, and communicate findings. This role will require the ability to work cross-functionally with Product Management, Engineering Leadership, Development Teams and Quality Engineers to measure performance, clearly articulate findings and fix bottlenecks. Time will also be spent in collaboration with software engineering teams on bug fixes, code optimization and reduction of resource usage, and in developing open source tools for reliability and repeatability of tests.

Our team is global and diverse, and as such the location for this role is flexible. The Engineer may be located in one of our many global offices or may work permanently remotely.

What you will do

• Work closely with management, product owners, developers, and quality engineers to understand product requirements and build suitable performance test plans to verify OpenShift’s performance and scalability limits

• Develop sophisticated tests that perform user workload simulations through comprehensive end-to-end automation, leveraging custom built and state of the art open source tools and frameworks

• Deep dive into performance issues with the intent of discovering their root cause on complex distributed systems deployed on cloud infrastructure

• Design and develop orchestration, monitoring and reporting tools to do performance and scale tests and analysis

• Document your research and results clearly and concisely, and communicate findings both internally and externally

What you will bring

• experience in performance engineering or systems/software engineering 

• Demonstrable experience or understanding and passion for performance engineering

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

• Strong programming, debugging, and profiling skills

• Familiarity with Linux

• Solid scripting skills, particularly with Bash, Python, or Ansible

• Experience working with public clouds like AWS, Azure, GCP or IBM Cloud

• Experience with collaborative software development methodologies, tools and version control

• Ability to work with independence and to proactively seek collaboration

The following are considered a plus:

• Experience with container technologies like podman or docker and familiarity with building container images

• Working knowledge of Kubernetes or OpenShift

• Experience with system performance engineering and metrics collection tools like iostat, vmstat, sar, perf, and prometheus

• Record of contributing to an open source project

• Presentation skills and public speaking skills for conferences and demonstrations

• Master’s Degree in Computer Science or related field or Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field

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Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver high-performing Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Spread across 40+ countries, our associates work flexibly across work environments, from in-office, to office-flex, to fully remote, depending on the requirements of their role. Red Hatters are encouraged to bring their best ideas, no matter their title or tenure. We're a leader in open source because of our open and inclusive environment. We hire creative, passionate people ready to contribute their ideas, help solve complex problems, and make an impact.

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