Job Summary:
The Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization team is looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join the CNV Compute Team. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams including Quality Engineers and Software Development Engineers to gain a deep understanding of features customer use cases and technical implementations. This position requires a self-motivated individual with passion for problem solving Linux technologies and Open Source who can work effectively in a fast-paced collaborative environment and has a strong passion for delivering our top-notch software products.
As a Principal Software Engineer you will design and implement virtualization solutions using Containers and Virtual Machines contributing to industry-leading technologies such as Kubernetes OpenShift Libvirt and QEMU.
As a part of a geographically distributed team you will collaborate with multiple Red Hat engineering teams around the this role youll also have the opportunity to engage with open-source communities contribute to the integration of Red Hat open-source and partner technologies into a cohesive platform and play a critical role in delivering high-quality software to customers and open-source ecosystems.
In this role you will deal with Windows guest VMs on Linux hosts and help in debugging and developing features for this combination but not limited to.
What you will do:
Play an active role in Container and Virtualization related projects and communities that is KubeVirt Kubernetes OpenShift Libvirt and QEMU.
Develop and enhance existing features for Windows guests.
Debug Windows VMs and related components on Linux hosts.
Design develop enhance KubeVirt (primarily compute features) and collaborate with the community using Golang.
Integrate changes in multiple projects and services into a consumable feature.
Submit patches for bug fixes to the community and review patches from other members.
Responsible for code maintenance and quality by writing unit and functional tests.
Work with the Quality Engineering team members to ensure projects are tested correctly.
Constantly learn and gain a deeper understanding of our offerings and current technologies.
Publicize the teams work through blogs web postings or conference talks.
What you will bring:
Minimum of 4 years of relevant work experience
Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent working experience.
Experience with container-orchestration development (Kubernetes / OpenShift).
Experience in a Linux environment with at least one high level language such as Golang Python or C/C.
Experience with Windows operating systems and their unique characteristics.
Hands-on experience Windows in kernel programming.
Multi-threaded programming and management of shared resources synchronization in complex environments.
Good analytical troubleshooting and debugging skills.
Self-motivated with the ability to quickly learn new technologies.
Good written and verbal communication skills in English.
The following are considered a plus:
Programming skills in Golang.
Experience with Linux Kernel concepts like control groups and namespaces.
Experience with virtualization and Compute technologies (QEMU KVM OpenStack RHV VMware LibVirt etc) distributed systems clusters.
Familiarity with open source software development methodologies.
Open source development experience.
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