Principal Software Engineer- Openshift / Golang

Principal Software Engineer - OpenShift / Golang

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About The Job

Make a difference in the world of Serverless architecture and services based on the Knative project. The Red Hat OpenShift Serverless Engineering team is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to contribute to the development and operation of Serverless and event-driven applications on OpenShift, leveraging Red Hat's components. You will work within the upstream Knative community and on our Serverless product, requiring creative thinking, adaptability, and a willingness to learn. Occasional travel may be necessary to evangelize Red Hat's involvement with Knative and other upstream projects, along with offsite meetings.

Responsibilities include :

• Contributing to upstream projects like Knative, Kubernetes, CloudEvents, BuildPacks, and Red Hat OpenShift, including mentoring team members.
• Expanding the Knative ecosystem through API design, specifications, controllers, and testing.
• Contributing to Red Hat Operators managing Knative.
• Developing design patterns, tooling, and best practices for Knative components.
• Collaborating on tooling, CI / CD processes, and productization.
• Engaging with global open source communities and project teams.
• Working with product management, QA, and documentation teams.
• Evangelizing Knative and Red Hat Serverless via talks, blogs, and articles.

Qualifications :

• 5+ years of software development experience.
• Proficiency in Go programming.
• Experience with containers and Kubernetes platform development.
• Understanding of reliable distributed systems principles.
• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills.
• Passion for open source, positive attitude, and open idea sharing.
• Familiarity with Git, GitHub, JIRA, Linux, CI systems.

Preferred Skills :

• Experience with distributed teams and agile methodologies.
• Knowledge of messaging technologies like Kafka or CloudEvents.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GKE.

About Red Hat

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• Seniority Level : Not Applicable
• Employment Type : Full-time

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