Senior or Principal Software Engineer Red Hat Linux Virtualization (Brno Office, Czech Republic)
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Job Location:
Brno - Czech Republic
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
Yesterday
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
The Red Hat Linux Virtualization team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer / Principal Software Engineer with a deep passion for system-level engineering and low-level operating system components. The team is responsible for all aspects related to virtualization in Red Hat Enterprise Linux including system firmware and device emulation as well as their counterpart aspects in the guest instance on top of Red Hat or third-party virtualized platforms.
We are seeking a specialist in the validation and automated testing of the low-level virtualization this role you will drive the Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) strategy for our virtualization components ensuring that quality is shifted left into the development process.
In this position you will contribute to industry-leading technologies like Red Hat Enterprise Linux Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization and community distributions such as CentOS Stream and Fedora. As part of a geographically distributed team you will collaborate with multiple Red Hat engineering teams and open-source communities around the globe. This position offers an excellent opportunity to work alongside and learn from some of the brightest engineers in the open-source industry.
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What you will do
- Lead the architecture and implementation of continuous integration pipelines (using tools like Jenkins.
- Design develop and maintain robust test frameworks ensuring these frameworks are scalable reliable and easily consumable by the team.
- Triage complex system failures. Analyze kernel panics core dumps and QEMU logs to identify root causes and distinguish between automation issues and product bugs.
- Develop tooling to track regression in hypervisor latency throughput and boot times across kernel updates.
- Work effectively as part of a distributed agile team with remote members.
What you will bring
- 5 or 8 years of experience in testing virtualization stack and related technologies.
- Strong proficiency with Python and automated testing technologies such as Jenkins or equivalent.
- Experience with software testing concepts and frameworks like the Avocado Testing Framework pytest or similar.
- Working experience in linux testing and debugging.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Computer Engineering or a related field; an advanced degree is a plus.
Considered a plus
- Experience with the core Linux Virtualization stack (KVM QEMU Libvirt).
- Experience with multiple hardware platforms (e.g. x86 ARM64 s390x RISC-V).
- Understanding of open-source development processes and/or a history of active open-source contributions.
- Prior experience of speaking at conferences or publishing technical blogs/articles and patents.
About Red Hat
Red Hat is the worlds leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions using a community-powered approach to deliver high-performing Linux cloud container and Kubernetes technologies. Spread across 40 countries our associates work flexibly across work environments from in-office to office-flex to fully remote depending on the requirements of their role. Red Hatters are encouraged to bring their best ideas no matter their title or tenure. Were a leader in open source because of our open and inclusive environment. We hire creative passionate people ready to contribute their ideas help solve complex problems and make an impact.
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