Red hat Senior Software Maintenance Engineer 

United States, Massachusetts, Boston 

697067869

To succeed in this role, you’ll need to have the ability to think creatively and adapt to rapid change, as well as an eagerness to learn new things, and to innovate for process and quality efficiency.

Requirements

• Expert level C coding skills

• Extensive experience handling revisions and conflicts on Git.

• Familiar with backporting patches, including straight cherry picks, functionally equivalent backports, dependency resolution, etc.

• Familiar with git concepts such as the merge request workflow, etc.

• Familiar with kernel internals, including but not limited to:

• Maintainership workflow

• Device drivers

• Boot process

• Experience with userspace low-level internals, including but not limited to:

• Processes

• Interprocess communication mechanisms

• Kernel interface (syscalls, ioctl, etc.)

• Experience with building code from source and debug compilation failures

• Experience with tools like Make and autotools.

• Experience with debugging and testing low-level code:

• Experience with tools such as crash, ftrace, and gdb.

• Experience debugging test failures and filing issues.

• Familiar with automated testing environments:

• Jenkins jobs, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions.

• Excellent interpersonal, problem solving, critical thinking, and communication skills

• Demonstrated experience of collaborative problem solving

Desirable

• Open Source contributions to upstream linux projects or interaction with the open source community.

• Experience developing for kernel subsystems (such as networking, device drivers, etc).

• Experience with other debugging tools like perf, eBPF and system tap.

• Experience with unit and integration testing.

• Experience with scripting languages like Python and/or Bash.

• Experience with container-driven solutions.

The salary range for this position is $111,000.00 - $177,480.00. 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