Red hat Principal Software Engineer - Ansible 

United States, Massachusetts, Boston 

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The job’s focus will be on expanding our enterprise Ansible offering through seamless integration with other configuration management and automation tooling. Through developing and maintaining the suite of projects Ansible offers as part of the Ansible Automation Platform’s content management arm, you will play a key role in helping us develop new features that allow our applications to be used in new ways, as well as helping to deliver these new tools for Ansible content creators and users. You will work closely with engineers across the Ansible organization to deliver features that can be used across our projects.

Primary Job Responsibilities

• Design, develop and test new backend features for Ansible Automation Platform

• Troubleshoot bugs and regressions, working closely with Quality Engineers to deliver working and feature-complete solutions

• Participate in product release cycles, deploying code to integration, staging and production environments, integrating with CI/CD tooling

• Perform software updates, peer code reviews, testing, and CVE analysis

• Help mentor and learn from other engineers in a highly-collaborative team environment, as well as participate in peer code reviews

• Regularly participate in the team’s Agile scrum process, demos and check-ins with Product Management and other stakeholders to align on use-cases and plan new initiatives

Required Skills

• Experience with the Ansible Automation Platform and/or experience with other configuration management and infrastructure as code tooling such as Hashicorp Terraform

• Significant experience with Python, Django and Django REST Framework

• Ability to work Hybrid from Raleigh NC, Durham NC, Boston MA or Lowell MA

• Experience with Python unit and integration testing with tools such as pytest

• Experience with Linux

• Experience with SQL and relational databases such as PostgreSQL

• Experience with utilizing container management platforms and development environments like Kubernetes, OpenShift, and Docker/Docker Compose

• Experience with CI/CD systems like Jenkins and GitHub Actions

• Team leadership experience

• Experience working on and even leading large-scale projects (open-source experience is a plus)

• Demonstrated ability to quickly and accurately troubleshoot system and performance issues

• Good communications skills, and experience working directly with and presenting to stakeholders

• An aptitude for jumping in to help unblock, mentor and learn from others

The salary range for this position is $142,140.00 - $234,500.00. 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