Senior Software Engineer

About the role

*Telecommuting permitted: work may be performed within normal commuting distance from the Red Hat, LLC office in Raleigh, NC.

Collaborate with developers, quality engineers and architects to test, analyze, find root cause of issues and fix performance issues. Assess customer requirements to design scale tests that mimic customer environments.

What You Will Do

• Evaluate Red Hat OpenShift performance on public cloud and other platforms.
• Devise, execute and report on test plans for Red Hat OpenShift.
• Benchmark and analyze performance and system metrics of Red Hat OpenShift to identify bottlenecks and propose improvements.
• Build and use open source and AI agentic tooling to monitor Red Hat OpenShift Platform behavior under load.
• Actively engage with upstream Kubernetes performance communities to enhance downstream product, Red Hat OpenShift and present in public conferences to build a community around Performance & Scale.
• Collaborate with product managers to identify and prioritize testing needs for software.
• Interact with customers to understand how they use Red Hat OpenShift, model internal test cases, and continuous integration pipelines.
• Setup test environments to help developers find the root cause of software bugs.
• Help establish software performance goals, devise plans to test and validate it, and collect and communicate results to relevant stakeholders.
• Collect data from performance tests, organize and present to internal and external stakeholders.
• Devise methods and tools for comparing performance data across multiple versions of Red Hat OpenShift to identify regressions in performance.

What You Will Bring

• Master's degree (U.S. or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science or related field and three (3) years of experience in the job offered or related role OR Bachelor's degree (U.S. or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science or related field and five (5) years of experience in the job offered or related role.
• Must have three (3) years of experience with: AWS, Azure, GCP, VMware, and OCS; developing and testing software in Python or Golang; performance monitoring and observability tools; the following productivity software and methodologies: Github, Jira, Confluence, Miro, and Agile development sprints; Linux Operating System administration and Bash scripting; data retention, transformation, summarization, and retrieval; large scale distributed systems design and analysis; the following software profiling tools: perf, cProfile, Pyroscope, and Parca; and working with CI/CD frameworks and tools.
• Must have two (2) years of experience utilizing and working with Containerization technologies and Kubernetes.

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Pay and benefits

The salary range for this position is $159,910 - $195,680/year. Actual offer will be based on your qualifications.

Pay Transparency

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Inclusion at Red Hat

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