About the job
The Red Hat OpenShift team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join us. In this role, you will help guide the continued progress of the Red Hat OpenShift offering. As part of the OpenShift team, you'll need to have passion for technology and development, balanced with the responsibility of running a hosted service. You'll offer a service that will change how development is done, using the benefits of Red Hat's technologies and services hosted in the cloud. As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll need to be inquisitive and motivated, but also able to collaborate with others and more than willing to help make them successful. You'll also need to be well spoken and have excellent written language skills in English, which you will use to communicate with other Red Hat OpenShift engineers across the globe. Successful applicants must reside in a state where Red Hat is registered to do business.
What you will do

• Serve as a senior-level engineering contributor to the Red Hat OpenShift Routing and DNS subsystems
• Make updates to key components within the Red Hat OpenShift networking infrastructure
• Contribute design, changes, revisions, updates, and maintenance to this infrastructure, as well as other core parts of the Red Hat OpenShift infrastructure which manage the routing and DNS characteristics of the offering

What you will bring

• Solid Linux experience, including administration of a single machine and creation and use of containers
• Experience with networking and internet technologies, including TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP and associated protocols, L4 and L7 load balancing solutions, or HAProxy; familiarity with other high-level protocols is a plus
• Experience with Go
• Solid experience with programming in a UNIX environment
• 5+ years of programming experience
• Experience working on a large, complex, deployed software offering
• Software design and architectural experience
• Ability to write specifications
• Ability to divide specifications into subtasks
• Ability to lead others with technical implementation
• Solid written and verbal communication skills
• Experience working with agile methodologies
• Experience working with source control and bug tracking; Git, Jira, or Bugzilla are a plus

The following are considered a plus:

• Experience with at least one major cloud provider, ideally Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Experience with a container orchestration technology, ideally Kubernetes
• Experience working with Kubernetes upstream
• Contributions to open source projects in HTTP (server, proxy, or client), IP failover, container, or DNS (server or client) space
• General open source contribution history
• Master's degree in computer science

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.