Senior Software Engineer

Red Hat•Raleigh, NC

21d•Hybrid

About The Position

Design and develop backend features and services for large-scale distributed systems running on Kubernetes and OpenShift. Implement backend components that support automated cluster lifecycle management, provisioning, and configuration workflows.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree (U.S. or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Communications Engineering or related field and five (5) years of experience in the job offered or related role.
Five (5) years of experience with: programming in Go or Python programming languages.
Five (5) years of experience with: designing and developing distributed or large-scale backend systems.
Five (5) years of experience with: developing features for Kubernetes-based platforms, including controller-runtime patterns, reconciliation loops, CRDs, and OpenShift-specific extensions such as Machine API and cluster operators.
Five (5) years of experience with: cloud-native architectures, microservices, and containerized environments.
Five (5) years of experience with: designing, developing, and integrating backend APIs (REST or gRPC), including defining API schemas, implementing service-to-service communication, and using OpenAPI/Swagger specifications.
Four (4) years of experience with: virtualization or cloud platforms, including VMware vSphere and Nutanix, as well as Prism Central and related management APIs.
Four (4) years of experience with: working with bare-metal systems, hardware provisioning, or Linux system-level debugging.
Three (3) years of experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, specifically Prow and Jenkins.

Responsibilities

Develop and integrate features that interact with virtualization and cloud platforms such as VMware vSphere (VCD/VCF), Nutanix Prism Central, and bare-metal hosts.
Build and maintain CI/CD automation, tooling, and pipelines to support continuous delivery and testing.
Troubleshoot and debug issues across Linux systems, Kubernetes controllers, virtualization layers, and hardware nodes.
Design and maintain backend APIs (REST/gRPC), including schema definition, service-to-service communication, and OpenAPI/Swagger specifications.
Improve performance, observability, scalability, and reliability across platform components.
Collaborate with engineering teams on architecture design, code reviews, and engineering best practices.