Red hat Senior Software Engineer - Performance 

United States, North Carolina, Durham 

232471575

About the Job

In this role, you will work in an environment where diverse perspectives are invited, the best ideas are valued, and people feel empowered to contribute. Freedom and courage are two of our core values, which is why you’ll need to be comfortable taking risks and exploring the unknown. But being a Red Hatter isn't just about being brave, it's also about demonstrating commitment and sticking to it.

What you will do

• Define and Document: Lead the creation and refinement of the overarching Konflux Performance Strategy, ensuring alignment with user expectations for stability, throughput, and speed.

• Analyze & Identify Gaps: Deeply analyze Konflux user performance requirements and identify gaps in the current performance testing approach (covering areas like smoke, load, stress, scalability, endurance, resilience, network, cross-architecture, and component-level testing).

• Evaluate & Recommend: Assess the importance and ROI of different performance testing strategies and tools (e.g., k6, Locust, chaos engineering frameworks) for the Konflux ecosystem.

• Define Standards: Drive the definition of performance baselines, Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) for Konflux, collaborating with stakeholders to ensure they meet business needs.

• Collaborate & Influence: Work closely with Konflux engineering, QE, SRE, and product management teams to embed performance considerations throughout the development lifecycle and gain buy-in for strategic initiatives.

• Monitoring & Observability Strategy: Define requirements for effective performance monitoring, observability (metrics, tracing, logging using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, etc.), and automated alerting to detect regressions and anomalies.

• Bottleneck Analysis: Proactively analyze potential performance bottlenecks across the Konflux stack (including dependencies like etcd, networking, storage) and recommend optimization strategies.

• Prioritize & Plan: Translate strategic goals and identified gaps into actionable tasks (e.g., Jira epics/stories) and work with teams on prioritization for capacity planning, cost optimization, and testing implementation.

• Communicate Effectively: Clearly articulate performance findings, strategy documents, and recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

What you will bring

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or equivalent experience.

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, performance engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).

• Proven experience designing, implementing, and documenting performance testing strategies and frameworks for complex, distributed systems.

• Solid understanding of Linux/UNIX operating systems.

• Significant experience with container orchestration software (Kubernetes, OpenShift).

• Strong analytical skills with experience in test data visualization, analysis, and identifying performance bottlenecks.

• Proficiency in programming/scripting languages (e.g., Python, Go) for automation, tooling, and data analysis.

• Experience with performance testing tools (e.g., k6, Locust, JMeter) and methodologies (load, stress, endurance, etc.).

• Familiarity with observability stacks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, OpenTelemetry, ELK, Splunk).

• Understanding of cloud-native architectures, microservices, CI/CD pipelines, and related challenges.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across globally distributed teams.

• Demonstrated ability to take initiative, work independently, and drive projects to completion.

The following are considered a plus

• Knowledge of Red Hat Konflux, Tekton, or similar CI/CD / build systems.

• Experience with chaos engineering principles and tools

• Understanding of database performance tuning (e.g., PostgreSQL) and caching mechanisms (e.g., Redis).

• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible).

• Familiarity with cloud provider environments (AWS, Azure, GCP, IBM Cloud).

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