About the job
The Red Hat Software Engineering team is looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our Application Site Reliability Engineering (AppSRE) team. In this role, you will help architect, modify, improve, and support the platform running all user-facing Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offerings on top of Red Hat OpenShift. Using your expertise in SRE principles of automation and continuous improvement, you will help create an environment where availability, reliability, and security are threaded through the entire application life cycle, not treated as an afterthought. As a Principal Site Reliability Engineer, you will write new software as required to automate the building, testing, deployment, promotion, monitoring, alerting, and maintenance of Red Hat's growing suite of cloud-native applications.
What you will do

• Establish and enforce SRE best practices through platform constraints and high-fidelity system modeling
• Develop secure service architecture using cloud-native technologies coupled with traditional security approaches
• Develop systems, primarily in Python and Golang, to prevent outages through automatic scanning and remediation
• Participate in an on-call rotation

What you will bring

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, engineering, math, or an equivalent degree or experience
• Proficiency with applied cryptography for modern web technologies
• Understanding of distributed systems and common distributed system failure domains
• Background writing reliable software and automation
• Ability to effectively work in a globally distributed team

Experience with the following experience is considered a plus:

• Ensuring software systems comply with government and industry standards for security
• Managing a production service with Red Hat OpenShift or Kubernetes
• Designing and carrying out security incident response procedures
• Developing a Kubernetes controller, operator, or platform component
• Contributing to the design or codebase for a cloud-native service mesh solution
• Operations with a production user-facing application
• Designing and deploying public key infrastructure (PKI) software at scale

About Red Hat
Red Hat is the world's leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver reliable and high-performing Linux, hybrid cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Red Hat helps customers integrate new and existing IT applications, develop cloud-native applications, standardize on our industry-leading operating system, and automate, secure, and manage complex environments. Award-winning support, training, and consulting services make Red Hat a trusted adviser to the Fortune 500. As a strategic partner to cloud providers, system integrators, application vendors, customers, and open source communities, Red Hat can help organizations prepare for the digital future.
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!

Note: These benefits are only applicable to full time, permanent associates at Red Hat located in the United States.