The Red Hat OpenStack engineering team is looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join us. In this role, you will play a key role in the Red Hat OpenShift on OpenStack product (“Shift On Stack”). You'll contribute to feature development, defect fixing, sprint planning and process improvement as part of a highly effective and dynamic team that offers Red Hat’s customers a solution to provision Red Hat OpenShift clusters on top of a Red Hat OpenStack Platform deployment.
As a Principal Software Engineer, you will participate as a member of a geographically distributed team, using multiple communication tools for close collaboration. You'll need to have passion for modern open source development methods, an interest in containerisation/virtualisation technologies, and a desire to apply broad software engineering skills to product development. You understand the LLM technology and can identify tasks that benefit from AI-assisted workflows.
What you will doBecome a leading contributor to the various components of Shift On Stack (which range from platform support pieces inside the Red Hat OpenShift installer, to Operators for provisioning resources in Red Hat OpenStack Platform)
Contribute to the regular delivery cadence of Shift On Stack
Work with Red Hat OpenShift teams to shepherd code changes through their processes
Contribute to the testing of enhancements to Shift On Stack
Exceptional developing skills in Golang
Deep understanding of cloud computing and container management; OpenShift/Kubernetes is a must
Experience using, developing, or administering Red Hat OpenStack Platform and/or Red Hat OpenShift environments is a big plus
Good grasp of the fundamentals of LLM
Passion for open source software development
Ability to work in a distributed team environment
Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
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