The Red Hat OpenShift Engineering team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer with experience in software design, Go and Kubernetes to join our Hosted Control Planes team to deliver this new technology to Red Hat’s Service Delivery (ROSA and ARO) and to our self-managed customers.

What you will do

• Design and develop features and bug fixes in Cluster API, Cluster API providers and HyperShift.

• Work with Quality Engineering on test plans for the code you create and with the Documentation team to ensure good coverage for the features and fixes you work on.

• Participate in peer code reviews.

• Participate in architectural discussions of system designs, programming interfaces, and inter-dependencies of control plane, operators, CI, Managed OpenShift, etc., both in upstream communities and the HyperShift project.

• Collaborate with other engineering teams in Managed OpenShift and Core OpenShift for components that are managed by HyperShift in Hosted Control Planes and with engineering teams that build Hosted Control Planes support for different on premise platforms.

• Troubleshoot, brainstorm, design and deliver Hosted Control Plane issues and fixes to important internal and external customers.

What you will bring

• Understanding of Linux operating system and scripting languages

• Knowledge of at least one of Go, Python, C, C++, Rust

• Knowledge building and deploying container-based applications

• Knowledge of Kubernetes / OpenShift architecture and familiarity with its internals

• Good written and verbal English communication skills

The following are considered a plus

• Understanding Kubernetes / OpenShift architecture and internals

• Experience with development for public cloud services (mainly AWS and Azure)

• Understanding of how Open Source and Free Software communities work

• Experience with OpenShift in Bare Metal and Kubevirt

• Linux networking and container networking knowledge

• OpenShift Pipelines and/or Tekton knowledge.

• Prow CI knowledge

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