Software Engineer - Ansible Automation Platform

Red River•Raleigh, NC

About The Position

At Red Hat, we connect an innovative community of customers, partners, and contributors to deliver an open source stack of trusted, high-performing solutions. We offer cloud, Linux, middleware, storage, and virtualization technologies, together with award-winning global customer support, consulting, and implementation services. Red Hat is a rapidly growing company supporting more than 90% of Fortune 500 companies. Job Summary The Ansible engineering team is looking for a Software Engineer with a focus on backend web and API development to join our team. In this role, you will work closely with a group of talented engineers helping to improve efficiency and drive results through your contributions. The ideal candidate is friendly, collaborative, and passionate about working with others to achieve success. The job’s focus will be on expanding our enterprise Ansible offering through seamless integration with other configuration management and automation tooling. Through developing and maintaining the suite of projects Ansible offers as part of the Ansible Automation Platform’s content management arm, you will play a key role in helping us develop new features that allow our applications to be used in new ways, as well as helping to deliver these new tools for Ansible content creators and users. You will work closely with engineers across the Ansible organization to deliver features that can be used across our projects.

Requirements

Experience with Python, Django and Django Rest Framework
Experience with Python unit and integration testing with tools such as pytest
Experience with Linux
Experience with SQL and relational databases such as PostgreSQL
Experience with utilizing container management platforms and development environments like Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker/Docker Compose, and Podman
Experience with CI/CD systems like Jenkins and GitHub Actions
Experience working on large-scale projects utilizing version control (we use Git and GitHub/GitLab), open-source experience is a plus
Interest in participating in the software design and architecture process
Good communications skills, and experience working directly with and presenting to stakeholders
An agile mindset, with openness and flexibility to pivot towards the highest priority work items as needed

Responsibilities

Develop and test new backend features for Ansible Automation Platform
Troubleshoot bugs and regressions, working closely with Quality Engineers to deliver working and feature-complete solutions
Participate in product release cycles, deploying code to integration, staging and production environments, integrating with CI/CD tooling
Perform software updates, peer code reviews, testing, and CVE analysis
Learn from other engineers in a highly-collaborative team environment, as well as participate in peer code reviews
Regularly participate in the team’s Agile scrum process, demos and check-ins with Product Management and other stakeholders to align on use-cases and plan new initiatives

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!

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