About the job
The Red Hat Ecosystem Engineering team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Telco Solutions and Enablement group in Boston, MA. In this role, you will be responsible for providing technical contributions to strategic 5G and next generation telco service provider offerings and solutions. You will be a member of a geographically distributed team which engages early and works closely with partners in Red Hat's partner ecosystem, peer groups in Ecosystem Engineering, Red Hat product and sales teams, and in open source communities and standards bodies. Project activities include building proof of concepts using Red Hat platforms, working with partners to onboard workloads, designing repeatable solutions, integrating solutions into continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) pipelines, and providing technical guidance for Certification programs. To be successful in this role, you will need to thrive on designing and delivering positive outcomes to technically challenging problems while embracing and amplifying Red Hat's core values of freedom, courage, commitment, and accountability.
What you will do

• Collaborate within and across Red Hat teams to realize telco service provider features and solutions
• Build proof of concepts using Red Hat platforms and partner workloads
• Design and develop software in support of strategic partner next-generation offerings
• Advocate for your work and Red Hat's position in open source communities
• Provide technical leadership within the Telco Solutions and Enablement team
• Mentor junior engineers within your team and across the group
• Contribute to collective success through regular knowledge sharing within the company
• Serve as a voice of Red Hat for partnered development activities

What you will bring

• Industry experience of enterprise software development
• Proficiency in programming, including Go or Python
• Ability to work with a geographically distributed remote working team
• Experience contributing to open source communities
• Proficiency in Linux operation and administration
• Experience with Linux system programming
• Good interpersonal and verbal skills; good written communication skills

The following are considered a plus:

• Experience with Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat CoreOS, other Red Hat products, or industry cloud or virtualization technologies
• Knowledge of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
• Container development, virtualization, cloud computing or cloud-native development, and automation
• Experience in the development of Operators for OpenShift or Kubernetes
• Distributed system design and development experience
• Networking software development experience
• Experience in software testing or CI/CD pipelines
• Experience in production telco or service provider environments, either as a network operator or vendor
• Relevant domain-specific knowledge and experience, including involvement in standards bodies, network functions virtualization (NFV), software-defined networking (SDN), operational support system (OSS) or business support system (BSS), cloud-native applications and architectures, 5G Core, or 5G RAN

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.