Principal Software Engineer - Openshift Service Mesh Istio jobs at Red Hat

What You Will Do

• Design, build, maintain, and test core backend services and APIs for the the Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security (RHACS) platform

• Work across our product, focusing on efficient data collection, event processing and ingestion, storage and persistence, as well as APIs and presentation

• Collaborate with other engineers, product managers, and product designers to shape, build, and improve new and existing features

• Own core areas of the product, lead their design, and be responsible for their quality and health

• Assist our Customer Support team in troubleshooting and resolving customer issues

• Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes

• Have the opportunity to build a personal brand and strengthen the company brand through technical blog posts and open-source contributions

What You Will Bring

• Experience writing high-quality, maintainable software

• Openness to learning new technologies, programming languages, and concepts

• Experience with Go or similar programming language

• Experience delivering high-quality software through a principled, “design document-first” approach

• Experience with building extensible and maintainable APIs

• Experience with scalable distributed systems

• Knowledge of OpenShift or Kubernetes; experience with policies, Helm charts and admission controllers

• Experience working in a collaborative environment with different stakeholders and subject matter experts

The salary range for this position is $148,540.00 - $245,050.00. Actual offer will be based on your qualifications.

Pay Transparency

● Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage

● Flexible Spending Account - healthcare and dependent care

● Health Savings Account - high deductible medical plan

● Retirement 401(k) with employer match

● Paid time off and holidays

● Paid parental leave plans for all new parents

● Leave benefits including disability, paid family medical leave, and paid military leave

Job Summary

The Red Hat Ansible Engineering team is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join us. In this role, you will work as part of a team focused on maintaining, developing, and improving the components of the Ansible Automation Product ecosystem. From capturing requirements, to refining those, aligning with our architects teams on implementation, to deliver on them, you will be on the critical path to delivering impactful new features to our customer base.

What you will do:

• Design, implement and maintain production grade software deployed at scale

• Contribute to Red Hat strategy’s implementation of mission-critical automation

• Help Red Hat Automation Platform maintain its de-facto industry standard automation platform reference

• Solve complex problems in the network and infrastructure space; including but not limited to authentication, authorization, performance, distributed systems

What you will bring:

• Passion for automation and an excitement to automate all the things

• 3+ years of experience with a modern programming language, such as python or go

• Experience with Containers, Kubernetes, Cloud providers, and REST APIs principles

• Experience with industry-standard authentication and authorization protocols

• Strong knowledge of infrastructure systems and networks; experience with distributed systems

• Strong systems design , analysis and architecture skills

• Proven track record of architecting complex features in a multi-component environment

Experience With The Following Is Considered a Plus

• Demonstrated knowledge of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), including administration and management

• Familiarity with ansible and its ecosystem catalog

• Demonstrated history of open-source projects contributions

• Previous experience leading development of new product functionality from story discovery through to implementation, testing, and deployment.

The salary range for this position is $116,270.00 - $191,840.00. Actual offer will be based on your qualifications.

Pay Transparency

● Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage

● Flexible Spending Account - healthcare and dependent care

● Health Savings Account - high deductible medical plan

● Retirement 401(k) with employer match

● Paid time off and holidays

● Paid parental leave plans for all new parents

● Leave benefits including disability, paid family medical leave, and paid military leave

Job Summary

In this role, you will work closely with technical writers, content strategists, and other stakeholders to ensure a seamless and powerful content authoring and publishing experience for our users.

What you'll do

• Develop and customize AEM Guides components, templates, and workflows to meet specific documentation and publishing requirements.

• Design and implement DITA-OT plugins, specific schematron rules, specific post-processing pipelines in AEM.

• Configure and maintain the AEM publishing pipelines using DITA-OT for various output formats (PDF and HTML5) and optimize content in the Java Content Repository (JCR).

• Implement and manage content standards and a structured authoring environment, focusing on reuse, metadata, and file structure to improve content consistency across teams.

• Integrate AEM Guides with other internal systems and part of the Adobe stack with various APIs and web services.

• Configure and maintain AEM instances, including dispatcher configurations, user permissions, OSGi services, and system maintenance.

• Develop and implement strategic plans for the content platform that align with the larger Red Hat content vision and roadmap.

• Troubleshoot, debug, and optimize AEM performance and resolve technical issues related to content implementation and delivery.

• Document technical specifications, architecture, and development processes for knowledge sharing and future reference.

What you'll bring

• Proven experience as an AEM Developer, including custom component development and integration

• Expertise in AEM architecture and building blocks, including Sling Models, OSGi bundles, custom workflows, templates, and components.

• Familiarity with converting structured, topic-based source (in formats such as DITA/XML or AsciiDoc) to HTML and experience applying content architecture concepts like content reuse, metadata, single sourcing content, applying conditional values, and information architecture in a CMS.

• Knowledge of creating custom DITA-OT plugins and deploying them in the AEM Guides environment is preferred but not required.

• Advanced research and analytical skills for complex problem-solving and troubleshooting cross-functional issues.

• Ability to develop and implement strategic technical plans that fit into a larger content vision and roadmap.

• Experience with development tools such as Maven, Git, JIRA, Slack, and experience in operating in an Agile/Scrum methodology.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to effectively convey technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Experience working in a complex, cross-functional technology organization.

• Ability to manage multiple assignments at once and good project management skills.

The salary range for this position is $116,270.00 - $191,840.00. Actual offer will be based on your qualifications.

Pay Transparency

● Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage

● Flexible Spending Account - healthcare and dependent care

● Health Savings Account - high deductible medical plan

● Retirement 401(k) with employer match

● Paid time off and holidays

● Paid parental leave plans for all new parents

● Leave benefits including disability, paid family medical leave, and paid military leave

What you will do:

• Win the confidence of our customers through the successful delivery of discovery, analysis and design workshops that shape and influence the customer’s architecture design decisions to align with the Red Hat solution.

• Lead consulting teams through successful customer pilot and production deployments, workload onboarding and ongoing lifecycle management

• Work closely with product business units, product engineering, consulting, support, and sales to ensure a world-class customer experience with Red Hat’s products.

• Contribute to the development of repeatable methodologies and tools designed to scale Red Hat’s services capabilities, promote repeatable customer engagements, and lower delivery risk.

What you will bring:

• Prior experience working in a consulting and architecture roles

• Good customer-facing skills; ability to present to customers and lead customer interactions

• Excellent knowledge of modern telco networks and protocols and their implementation in software based solutions at the architecture and hands-on delivery levels

• Experience designing and delivering cloud and automation technology for telco network platforms via distributed cross-functional teams and with telco-wide deployments

• Knowledge of Red Hat’s infrastructure solutions like Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, Red Hat OpenStack Platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

• Excellent written and verbal language skills in French and English

• Willingness to travel across the region

• Red Hat Certifications are considered a plus

What you’ll do:

• Work with the Northeast Enterprise Sales team to plan the emerging technology strategy within a set of defined accounts

• Consult with customers to understand their core business drivers and technical requirements

• Present Red Hat’s technical solutions and manage emerging technology opportunity cycles with customers from qualification through to decision and procurement

• Guide customers from their initial interest in agile transformation through to the adoption of Red Hat’s cloud platform technologies, which will provide the technology foundation for improvement

• Gain the trust of senior IT and business executives within key accounts to create long-term partnerships

• Ensure that Red Hat’s OpenShift Platform solutions become the first choice for our strategic customers

What you’ll bring:

• 8+ years of experience working in a solutions sales, solutions architecture, or agile transformation consulting role

• 5+ years of experience focused on modern application delivery frameworks and platforms like Kubernetes and Docker, Red Hat OpenShift, Apache Kafka, MuleSoft, Jenkins, Apache Spark, MongoDB, etc.

• Background in consultative customer engagement with a consulting or technology company or organization

• Technical experience with enterprise middleware and container technologies

• Understanding of and experience with agile methodologies and organizational and IT transformation

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with ability to present to executives at large companies

• Ability to sell solutions in a multi-product environment

• Proven ability to work with global cross-functional teams and achieve success for customers

• Ability to maintain a balance of strategic and tactical skills

The salary range for this position is $291,510.00 - $481,100.00 (inclusive of base pay + target incentive compensation). Actual offer will be based on your qualifications.

Pay Transparency

● Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage

● Flexible Spending Account - healthcare and dependent care

● Health Savings Account - high deductible medical plan

● Retirement 401(k) with employer match

● Paid time off and holidays

● Paid parental leave plans for all new parents

● Leave benefits including disability, paid family medical leave, and paid military leave

The OpenShift engineering team is looking for a Software Quality Engineer. In this role, you will work on Red Hat’s OpenShift Container Platform, built on container technology and the Kubernetes cluster management system. You'll be responsible for all aspects of quality for Red Hat OpenShift, including designing test plans, extending automation frameworks, and developing new automated tests for both back and front ends. You will make sure our solutions fulfill the highest possible enterprise quality, performance, usability, and supportability. As a Senior Quality Engineer, you will gain a deep technical understanding of a variety of popular technologies, including containers, Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift, etc.

Regardless of your role and designation, you will have the freedom to showcase your leadership skills and ability to bring innovative solutions to complex problems at any level that will help you to get wider visibility in our organization.

What you will do

• Execute manual and automated tests for OpenShift and deliver clear status in a timely manner.

• Conduct failure analysis, explore, identify and document new bugs, advocate for the resolution of bugs and communicate the impact on customers to developers and support;

• Coordinate cross components teams to be responsible for bug verification, regression testing.

• Work with the product release related teams to be responsible for the product delivery related testing;

• Design, develop and maintain automation frameworks, CI and scripts with Golang for OpenShift testing and implementation

• Employ AI-driven testing frameworks to automate test case generation, optimize test execution, identify potential edge cases, and enhance overall test coverage and reliability.

What you will bring:

• An engineering degree or higher, or equivalent in computer science or a related field

• Testing experience working with globally distributed QE team members

• 3+ years of professional experience working in QE or similar roles

• Familiarity with testing methodologies and techniques

• Knowledge of the Linux operating system (any distribution)

• Programming skills in Golang, Python or another programming language

• Knowledge of Linux containers, Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenStack Platform, or Red Hat OpenShift

• Motivated and dedicated to learning and collaboration

• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and learn quickly

• Solid written and verbal communication skills in English

The following are considered a plus:

• Knowledge of Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2, Google Compute Engine (GCE), or Microsoft Azure

• Knowledge of CI/CD and Jenkins

• Knowledge of security testing

• Contributions to open source projects or publicly available code samplesDesign, develop and maintain automation frameworks and scripts with Ruby, Golang and Python for OpenShift testing and implementation

• Participate in the test planning and product planning processes

• Conduct new feature research and design test cases

• Execute manual and automated tests for OpenShift and deliver clear status in a timely manner.

• Explore, identify and document new bugs. Advocate for the resolution of bugs and communicate the impact on customers to developers and support

• Constantly learn new things and maintain an overview of current technologies

• Work in a fast-paced Agile global environment of talented Quality Engineers

• Provide mentoring and leadership to junior Quality Engineers

What you will do:

• Own the resilience testing roadmap for vLLM and llm-d: define resilience indicators, prioritize fault scenarios, and establish go/no-go gates for releases and CI/CD

• Design GPU/accelerator-aware fault experiments that target vLLM and the stack beneath it (drivers, GPU Operator/DevicePlugin, NCCL/collectives, storage/network paths, NUMA/topology)

• Build an automated harness (preferably extending krkn-chaos (https://github.com/krkn-chaos/krkn) ) to run controlled experiments with scoped blast radius, and evidence capture (logs, traces, metrics)

• Integrate fault signals into pipelines (GitHub Actions or otherwise) as resilience gates alongside performance gates

• Develop detection and diagnostics: dashboards and alerts for pre-fault signals (e.g., vLLM queue depth, GPU throttling, P2P downgrades, KV-cache pressure, allocator fragmentation)

• Triage and root-cause resilience regressions from field/customer issues; upstream bugs and fixes to vLLM and llm-d

• Explore and experiment with emerging AI technologies relevant to software development and testing, proactively identifying opportunities to incorporate new AI capabilities into existing workflows and tooling.

• Publish learnings (internal/external): failure patterns, playbooks, SLO templates, experiment libraries, and reference architectures; present at internal/external forums

What you will bring:

• 3+ years in reliability, and/or performance engineering on large-scale distributed systems

• Expertise in systems‑level software design

• Expertise with Kubernetes and modern LLM inference server stack (e.g., vLLM, TensorRT-LLM, TGI)

• Observability & forensics skills with experience with Prometheus/Grafana, OpenTelemetry tracing, eBPF/BPFTrace/perf, Nsight Systems, PyTorch Profiler; adept at converting raw signals into actionable narratives.

• Fluency in Python (data & ML), strong Bash/Linux skills

• Exceptional communication skills - able to translate raw data into customer value and executive narratives

• Commitment to open‑source values and upstream collaboration

The following is considered a plus:

• Master’s or PhD in Computer Science, AI, or a related field

• History of upstream contributions and community leadership, public talks or blogs on resilience, or chaos engineering

• Competitive benchmarking and failure characterization at scale.

The salary range for this position is $127,890.00 - $211,180.00. Actual offer will be based on your qualifications.

Pay Transparency

● Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage

● Flexible Spending Account - healthcare and dependent care

● Health Savings Account - high deductible medical plan

● Retirement 401(k) with employer match

● Paid time off and holidays

● Paid parental leave plans for all new parents

● Leave benefits including disability, paid family medical leave, and paid military leave