Red hat Principal Software Engineer 

United States, North Carolina, Raleigh 

193521859

Primary job responsibilities

• Coordinating architecture and dependencies with other teams in a broad technical context, and demonstrates an understanding of the consequences of technological choices.

• Holds a leadership position in upstream or across a group of internally focused projects typically a strategic owner, frequently defining direction of the project in matters of architecture, technology decisions, CI setup, etc

• Leads a cross-functional team to consistent and timely execution of plans

• Identifies opportunities spanning multiple technical disciplines, including important emerging technology projects, and leads in analysis of their impact. Conceives and is instrumental in creating new projects or programs

• Enabling large scale customer success by way of producing detailed architectural specifications and/or detailed project/feature proposals.

• Capable of successfully tackling projects and initiatives that can have company-wide scope. Applies technical excellence and leadership across engineering, business units, and the industry

• Proven ability in planning and execution of comprehensive product plans and architecture designs along with coordination of cross-functional teams

• Demonstrate Creative and innovative approach in the technical domain to address customer needs, challenges and priorities into feature requests and bug fixes that conclusively accelerate OpenShift adoption.

• Ability to act as a technology representative at various customer briefings, conferences, forums etc. Demonstrates strong business & technology acumen and collaboratively works with Sales, Field, BU and Engineering teams across various initiatives.

• Experience as a product architect , technical leader to handle aspects such as functionality, performance, resilience, reuse, comprehensibility, scalability, security, technology constraints, and tradeoffs.

• Expertise to define a high-level structure of a software system (architecture), its main components and their interfaces; interactions of these components with each other and with external systems.

• Follow the Kubernetes community and proactively lead the implementation of important improvements from the project in our product

• Experience to act as a trusted advisor for key product customers

• Technical knowledge dissemination through practices like mentoring, tech talks to fellow team members.

Required skills

• Architectural mindset and expertise in architecting and designing new systems keeping in mind the customers and product experience

• Proven ability to have worked with cross team / product teams addressing customer needs and challenges.

• Expertise in at least one or more programming languages such as Go/Python/Java etc.

• Good experience with kubernetes

• Hands-on learning and mid to senior level experience demonstrating implementation ownership of complex features individually and as a collaboration with others.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

The following are considered a plus:

• Experience of working with customers and helping them in their transformation journey as product advocate would be advantageous

• Familiarity with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CoreOS, Fedora or Red Hat OpenShift.

• Understanding of open source development models

• Prior participation in open source community software development or leadership

• Familiarity with enterprise application development

• Familiar with test-based development and agile or scrum methodologies

• Familiar with various observability tools: monitoring, logging, profiling, etc.

• Running applications on OpenShift

• Data-driven Story teller.

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