About the Job:
The Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO) Engineering team is looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join us in Pune, focusing on the ARO HCP project. In this role, you will contribute to the engineering of features related to the provisioning and life cycle management of Kubernetes and Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO). You'll play a key role in defining the architecture for Kubernetes deployment infrastructure and in developing our offerings from inception, through upstream development, to delivery.
You'll enjoy a fun and engaging work environment, with the opportunity to collaborate openly with a selection of dynamic and diverse agile teams, working to create value for our customers and partners. This is a great opportunity to craft and hone your skills while working with a wide range of modern languages, frameworks, and technologies including Golang, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Observability, CI/CD, and our extensive portfolio of cloud-native products and services
What will you do?
Be responsible for contributions in a technical environment, from coding to architecture
Work closely with members of our Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Quality Engineering (QE), Documentation, Product Security and Product Management teams
Lead engineers in building implementations of new designs
Design and build scalable, distributed solutions
Create and guide new feature development; contribute to projects in Golang
Be responsible for our product quality, participate in peer code reviews, continuous integration (CI) and delivery (CD), respond to security threats
Coordinate with team leads, architects and other engineers on product design and architecture
Mentor other engineers; lead them in building excellent services
Stay up-to-date on the latest advancements in AI frameworks, and leverage those in your day to day work
Proactively utilize AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code) for code generation, auto-completion, and intelligent suggestions to accelerate development cycles and enhance code quality.
What will you bring?
Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a technology-related discipline
10+ years of software development experience with at least one language like Golang, Java, C or C++
Solid experience with Linux, cloud computing, distributed web technologies, high availability, and build tools
Experience with microservices architecture and concepts including APIs, versioning, monitoring, etc.
Experience with Microsoft Azure
Experience with Automation, DevOps CI/CD tool kits such as Ansible, Jenkins or GitHub Actions
Experience with Observability, such as Prometheus metrics, alerts or Service Level Objectives
Experience with container technologies like Docker and Kubernetes
Good written and verbal communication skills to handle communication in a distributed team
Ability to work in a globally distributed team
Ability to examine various technological areas deeply and deliver solutions
The following are considered as a plus:
Familiarity with DevOps or SRE background
Open source development experience
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