Senior Software Engineer
About The Position
This telecommuting role may be performed anywhere in the U.S. The Senior Software Engineer designs and develops features and functionality for Red Hat’s OCI registries, including quay.io and registry.redhat.io. The role takes an AI-first approach to engineering, using tools such as Claude Code and Cursor to develop scalable solutions for quay.io. The engineer maintains the globally distributed virtual infrastructure behind quay.io, which runs on Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS. The role works with Product Management on product and roadmap decisions, collaborates with internal teams to unify the Quay.io experience across the Red Hat portfolio, and provides architectural guidance as the service scales. It also involves mentoring engineers, participating in a weekly on-call rotation, leading post-mortems, improving alerting and recovery, and owning documentation for quay.io and registry.redhat.io. The position requires a relevant bachelor’s degree and specified experience across software development, databases, Kubernetes and OpenShift, AWS-hosted SaaS applications, OCI registries, CI/CD, and agentic coding. The listed annual salary range is $142,370–$234,770; actual compensation depends on qualifications and other factors. The position may also be eligible for bonus, commission, and/or equity.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree, U.S. or foreign equivalent, in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
- Four years of experience in the job offered or a related role.
- Four years of experience with Python, JavaScript, React, Git, and Linux.
- Four years of experience with databases and writing SQL queries, including Postgres, Redis, and ORMs.
- Four years of experience with Kubernetes and OpenShift, including writing, deploying, and managing Operators in Go.
- Four years of experience with SaaS development and on-call support for web applications running on AWS.
- Four years of experience with OCI and container registries, and Docker or Podman.
- Four years of experience with CI/CD and releases.
- One year of experience with agentic coding using Claude Code and/or Cursor.
Responsibilities
- Design and develop new features and functionality for Red Hat OCI registries, including quay.io and registry.redhat.io.
- Use an AI-first engineering approach and tools such as Claude Code and Cursor to develop scalable solutions for quay.io.
- Maintain the globally distributed quay.io infrastructure running on Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS, including EC2, Aurora Postgres, RDS Proxy, Kinesis, Lambda, S3, and CloudFront.
- Use Kubernetes, OpenShift, Linux, Go, Python, JavaScript, React, Git, Redis, SQL, and OCI knowledge to maintain and grow quay.io.
- Work with Product Management on business and roadmap decisions for Quay.io.
- Collaborate with internal teams to unify the quay.io service experience with the rest of the Red Hat portfolio.
- Participate in the weekly on-call rotation.
- Mentor Quay.io engineers and help coordinate overall team efficiency.
- Provide architectural guidance for scaling quay.io to handle future growth.
- Lead post-mortems, define alerts, and reduce time to recovery following service incidents.
- Own documentation for quay.io and registry.redhat.io and provide guidance and support to peers and customers.
Benefits
- The position may be eligible for bonus, commission, and/or equity.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
