About the job

The Red Hat Performance and Scale Engineering team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join us. In this role, you will work with a diverse team of highly motivated engineers focused on the performance and scale characterization, and improvement of current and future Red Hat solutions. You'll have the opportunity to collaborate with other engineering teams to optimize the components that make our open source solutions perform at the highest level for Red Hat enterprise customers.

What you will do

• Work on performance and scale characterization and enhancement of the solution based on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform and Kubernetes
• Automate, test, and improve solutions and technologies including scale-out Linux containers with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
• Collaborate with software engineers and test engineers to identify and resolve critical performance issues and help guide solutions
• Test, analyze, and document results via Red Hat performance briefs and reference architectures

What you will bring

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field
• Passion for testing and optimizing software performance
• Background in software performance and scale testing, automation tooling, optimization, and monitoring
• Ability to convert raw data into meaningful graphs, draw conclusions, and present results with recommendations for improvement
• Thorough knowledge of Linux, containers, and Kubernetes
• Experience with scripting languages like Python
• Familiarity with a variety of concepts, practices, and procedures in addressing system performance
• Motivated, with excellent judgment and decision-making skills
• Good written and verbal English language skills
• Experience with cloud technologies is a plus
• Experience with Golang and upstream Kubernetes development is a major plus