Red hat Principal Software Engineer - OpenShift/Kubernetes Performance & Scale 

Ireland 

298025310

What You Will Do

• Work closely with management, product owners, developers, and quality engineers to understand product requirements and architect test plans to meet the roadmap requirements of OpenShift, its operators and layered products

• Develop sophisticated tests that simulate user workloads through comprehensive end-to-end automation, leveraging custom-built and state-of-the-art open-source tools and frameworks.

• Collaborate closely with key stakeholders and senior management to ensure alignment of team resources and capacity with the incoming testing requirements, in line with product delivery timelines.

• Deep dive into performance issues with the intent of discovering their root causes in complex distributed systems.

• Design and develop monitoring and reporting tools for performance and scale tests and analysis.

• Document your research and results clearly and concisely, and communicate findings both internally and externally.

• Engage in upstream communities to help test performance and scale early and influence design and development decisions.

• Triage, debug, and root cause customer issues related to OpenShift performance and scale.

• Present your work and findings at internal and external conferences.

What You Will Bring

• Master’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field with 5+ years of relevant experience, or a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field with 7+ years of relevant experience.

• Demonstrable experience, understanding, and passion for performance engineering.

• Working knowledge of Kubernetes or OpenShift.

• Strong programming, debugging, and profiling skills in Python and/or Golang.

• Hands-on experience with performance measurement, analysis, and optimization.

• Experience with distributed systems.

• Very strong Linux system administration and system engineering skills.

• Solid scripting skills, particularly with Bash, Python, or Ansible.

• Experience working with public clouds like AWS, Azure, GCP, or IBM Cloud, as well as bare metal environments.

• Experience analyzing and interpreting large volumes of test results and succinctly communicating findings through easy-to-understand graphs/charts.

• Experience with collaborative software development methodologies, tools, and version control.

• Knowledge of statistical analysis and experimental design techniques.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

• Ability to work independently and proactively seek collaboration.

The Following Are Considered a Plus:

• Experience with container technologies like Podman or Docker, and familiarity with building container images.

• Experience with system performance engineering and metrics collection tools like iostat, vmstat, sar, perf, and Prometheus.

• Experience with monitoring and dashboarding tools like Prometheus and Grafana.

• Experience testing different network adapters and hardware offload technologies.

• A demonstrated history of contributing to open-source projects.

• Presentation skills and public speaking abilities for conferences and demonstrations.