Red hat Software/Senior Software Engineer - Performance Scale 

United States, North Carolina, Raleigh 

655717497

What you will do

• Work closely with management, product owners, developers, and quality engineers to understand product requirements and build suitable performance test plans to verify OpenShift’s performance and scalability limits

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

• Deep dive into performance issues with the intent of discovering their root cause on complex distributed systems

• Design and develop monitoring and reporting tools to do performance and scale tests and analysis

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

What you will bring

• Master’s Degree in Computer Science or related field and 5+ years of experience in performance engineering or systems/software engineering or Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field and 5+years of experience in performance engineering or systems/software engineering

• Demonstrable experience or understanding and passion for performance engineering

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

• Strong programming, debugging, and profiling skills

• 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 bare metal systems and public clouds like AWS, Azure, GCP or IBM Cloud

• 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

• Ability to work with independence and to proactively seek collaboration

The following are considered a plus:

• Experience with container technologies like podman or docker and familiarity with building container images

• Working knowledge of Kubertes or OpenShift

• Working knowledge with Container Native Virtualization or OpenShift Virtualization

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

• Familiarity with monitoring and dashboarding tools like Prometheus and Grafana

• Track record of contributing to open source projects

• Presentation and public speaking skills at conferences and demonstrations

The salary range for this position is $111,260.00 - $183,580.00. 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