Linux Senior Software Engineer

About the job

Red Hat's Ecosystem Engineering team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join us. In this role you will be part of a growing team focused on partner enablement for use in telco, edge, real-time, and industrial applications, providing hardware enablement for ARM platforms.

What you will do

• Bring Telecom High Availability and small footprint concepts to the CNF platform, enabling 5G vRAN deployments

• Play an active role and contribute to multiple open source projects and communities like Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift, Open vSwitch (OVS), and Open Virtual Network (OVN)

• Troubleshoot, analyze bug root causes and provide resolutions

• Review design, enhancement proposals and patches from other members

• System level engineering and design for performance

• Work with the quality engineering team (QE) to ensure effective and complete test coverage

• Define, contribute to and collaborate on new system architectures.

What you will bring

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent working experience

• Good knowledge of Linux Networking and distributed Network components and concepts
• Familiarity with the wider Kubernetes and CNCF project ecosystem

• 3+ years of experience in a Linux environment with at least one of the following languages: Golang, Python.

• Multi-threaded programming and management of shared resources in complex environments
• Good written and verbal communication skills in English

The following are considered a plus:

• Experience with Linux system programming in a distributed telecom environment

• Experience with virtualization technologies (QEMU, KVM, etc)

• Experience with Real Time Linux

• Experience with container related technologies (docker, cri-o, etcd)

• Leading or contributing to open source communities

• Previous code contributions to or participation in open source projects or code samples on GitHub

• You’re willing to wear a lot of red or a red hat

• Latency sensitive workload tuning (IEQ lines, CPU pinning, NUMA affinity, etc)

• System and performance engineering analysis and a proven track record of unlocking performance in constrained environments.

• Linux networking or SDN related development contribution