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Red hat Software Maintance Engineer - RHEL Sustaining 
Czechia, Southeast, Brno 
87105425

17.04.2025

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.

What will you do?

  • Contribute to the vision and innovation of new Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) product maintenance offerings, aiming to make Red Hat a global leader in long-term product experience

  • Perform daily activities of product maintenance engineering teams, serving as a regional and global expert on pressing Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) product issues

  • Resolve and proactively address critical issues that have an impact on long-term regional or global business success of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

  • Work within the complete Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) solutions portfolio and be responsible for the delivery of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) updates to the maintenance streams

  • Collaborate with development and QE counterparts, product and project manager, and release engineering teams across the globe to ensure the development and delivery of fixes meet the schedule requirements and high quality standards expected and required by Red Hat customers

  • Diagnose the root cause of failures

  • Backport CVE and bug fixes to stable release streams

  • Develop, maintain, and monitor tests and onboard automated tests into a continuous integration workflow as much as possible

What will you bring?

  • Outstanding debugging, troubleshooting, and analytical skills

  • 2+ years of experience in software engineering and/or quality engineering

  • Advanced level C coding skills

  • Experience handling revisions and conflicts on Git (familiar with backporting patches and git concepts such as the merge request workflow, etc.)

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

  • Familiar with userspace low-level internals

  • Experience with building code from source and debug compilation failures, mainly with C language code

  • Knowledgeable with low-level debugging tools like GDB and strace:

  • Familiar with automated testing environments - Jenkins jobs, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions.

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

  • Experience with scripting languages like Python and/or Bash is a plus

  • Open Source contributions to upstream linux projects or interaction with the open source community is a plus

  • Understanding of any kernel subsystems such as networking, device drivers, etc. is a plus