Senior Software Engineer, OpenShift Networking

About the position

The Red Hat Engineering team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our global OpenShift Networking team. In this role, you will work as part of a global software development team to design, architect, and implement future networking solutions for Red Hat OpenShift. Your primary responsibilities will be related to Red Hat OpenShift and networking solutions. You will work as part of a distributed team both on your own and in close collaboration across Red Hat's platform engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and implement networking solutions for Red Hat's next-generation platforms, including Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift
• Become responsible for the quality of our offerings, participate in peer code reviews and continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) and respond to security threats (CVEs)
• Participate in, lead and create upstream networking project communities, including contributing new development work and existing features and fixes for projects like Kubernetes, OVN-Kubernetes and Open Virtual Networking (OVN)
• Use your deep networking expertise to help customers solve complex business problems with creative solutions

Requirements

• Strong networking knowledge, including expertise in one or more of switching and routing protocols
• Experience with cloud technologies, network functions virtualization (NFV) and software-defined networking (SDN)
• Experience using programming languages like Go, Python or C/C++
• Understanding of how open source and free software communities work
• Motivated with a proactive attitude, willingness to tackle new problems and an ability to develop new architectures and identify good ones
• Ability to work well as part of a team in a highly collaborative, distributed environment with a diverse team
• Good communication skills in English

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift and container networking technologies
• Experience with Linux networking technologies
• Experience with development for public cloud services, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Compute Engine (GCE) and Microsoft Azure
• Ability to present to customers and stakeholders
• Previous contributions to open source projects or being an open source maintainer

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Flexible Spending Account - healthcare and dependent care
• Health Savings Account - high deductible medical plan
• Retirement 401(k) with employer match
• Paid time off and holidays
• Paid parental leave plans for all new parents
• Leave benefits including disability, paid family medical leave, and paid military leave
• Additional benefits including employee stock purchase plan, family planning reimbursement, tuition reimbursement, transportation expense account, employee assistance program, and more!