About the job
The Red Hat Engineering team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our global Red Hat OpenShift Networking team. In this role, you will work as part of a global software development team to design, architect, and implement future networking solutions for Red Hat OpenShift. Your main responsibilities will be related to Red Hat OpenShift and networking solutions. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will work as part of a distributed team on your own and in close collaboration across Red Hat's platform engineering teams.
What you will do

• Design, develop, and implement networking solutions for Red Hat's next-generation platforms, including Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift
• Become responsible for the quality of our offerings, participate in peer code reviews, continuous integration (CI), and continuous delivery (CD), and respond to security threats
• Participate in, lead, and create upstream networking project communities, including contributing new development work and existing features and fixes for projects like Kubernetes and Open Virtual Networking (OVN)
• Use your deep networking expertise to help customers solve complex business problems with creative solutions

What you will bring

• Significant development experience with Kubernetes and container networking technologies
• Knowledge of network switching and routing protocols
• Experience with network functions virtualization (NFV) and software-defined networking (SDN)
• Experienced Go developer, or solid background in any other language and willingness to learn Go
• Motivated with a proactive attitude, willingness to tackle new problems, and an ability to develop new architectures and identify good ones
• Ability to work well as part of a team in a highly collaborative, distributed, environment with a diverse team
• Understanding of how open source and free software communities work
• Good language skills in English

The following are considered a plus:

• Experience with Red Hat OpenShift
• Experience with Linux networking technologies
• Experience with development for public cloud services, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Compute Engine (GCE), or Microsoft Azure
• Ability to present to customers and stakeholders
• Previous contributions to open source projects or being an open source maintainer

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.