Principal Software Engineer - OpenShift Service Mesh - Istio

Red Hat • Raleigh, NC

1d • Remote

About The Position

The Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh team is looking for a motivated Principal Software Engineer to join and grow with us. As a member of our team, you will help improve and optimize Istio for use within our enterprise Kubernetes platform, Red Hat OpenShift. Using your expertise, you will work with Red Hat and the Istio community to deliver features, enhancements, and bug fixes for the benefit of our customers and the broader community of Istio users. We provide an enjoyable and engaging work environment, with the opportunity for you to collaborate with dynamic and diverse agile teams, working around the world to create value for our customers and partners in an open source way. This is a great opportunity to hone your skills while working with a wide range of languages, frameworks, and technologies. You will become a part of Red Hat’s culture that makes us unique in the industry and you’ll work with communities passionate about open source software.

Requirements

• Highly experienced in software development
• 3+ years of experience programming with Go, with experience implementing controllers and/or operators on Kubernetes
• 3+ years experience working with cloud technologies like Red Hat OpenShift, Kubernetes, Docker, and/or other cloud platforms
• Knowledge of networking fundamentals and protocols such as TCP, TLS, HTTP, HTTPS, etc.
• Ability to proactively identify, address, and resolve issues with minimal supervision
• Written and verbal English communication skills
• Passion for open source software, a positive attitude, and a desire to share ideas openly

Nice To Haves

• Experience contributing to an open source project/community is a plus

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with peers and the Istio community on the design and development of features, enhancements, and bug fixes within Istio
• Mentor and coach junior team members, and work with cross functional teams across Red Hat
• Develop examples demonstrating features of Istio within Red Hat OpenShift
• Engage with our support team to help them resolve customer issues
• Work with our documentation team to improve documentation related to the use of Istio within OpenShift
• Interact with globally distributed open source project teams and communities inside and outside of Red Hat
• Leads the design and development of software solutions for features that cross multiple subsystems or components.
• Establishes, maintains, and monitors testing practices involving multiple components and teams.
• Acts as a key representative and leader within the community, advocating for internal or external customer needs, while aligning products with the community direction
• Across teams, coaches and mentors senior engineers.
• Owns and delivers technical initiatives with visible business impact, enabling the entire team to deliver value to the end user.
• Drives the adoption of new tools within a set of teams.
• Evaluates and introduces new AI-driven methodologies that resolve complex issues and improve Engineering efficiency.
• Leads the definition and implementation of the SDLC for complex multi-component systems, ensuring that the process scales effectively and aligns with the needs of multiple collaborating teams.

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!

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal
• Education Level: No Education Listed