Senior Software Engineer, Performance and Scale

The Red Hat Performance and Scale Engineering team is looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer, Performance and Scale to join our passionate global and diverse team that fosters innovation and collaboration to achieve world?class performance of Red?Hat OpenShift, the industry?leading enterprise Kubernetes platform. This position calls for a creative, adaptable engineer who is eager to learn new technologies and thrive in a dynamic, open?source?oriented culture.

In this role, you will solve challenging and industry?impacting problems, specifically focusing on optimizing and enhancing the performance of Red?Hat OpenShift Container Platform for our on?prem Telco?5G core network functions and radio access network (RAN) solution offerings. Use cases currently involve Telco?5G control?plane and data?plane workloads deployed in bare?metal environments, evolving toward the future of edge computing for Telco and other enterprise applications with Artificial Intelligence. You should have a keen interest in building large and performant platforms, making things big and fast, a curiosity to explore the details, and cross?discipline skills for developing projects from beginning to end. You will leverage your knowledge of systems, networking and hardware performance to theorize bottlenecks and limitations, devise test plans, execute workloads, measure performance, clearly articulate findings and fix bottlenecks.

You may be located in one of our many offices or work permanently remotely within the United?States.

Job Responsibilities

• Understand the complex architecture of distributed Kubernetes systems and deploy lab environments across dozens or hundreds of nodes that are analogous to customer expectations and demands
• Work closely with management, product owners, developers, and quality engineers to understand product requirements and build suitable performance test plans
• Conduct hardware?level performance tuning and optimization for telco workloads on bare?metal servers
• Simulate real?world workloads to systematically stress environments through comprehensive end?to?end automation, leveraging custom?built and state?of?the?art open source tools and frameworks
• Collect aggregated workload and system metrics from large distributed systems
• Deep?dive into performance issues with the intent of discovering their root cause on complex distributed systems
• Design and contribute to orchestration, benchmarking, monitoring and reporting tools used within and beyond the Performance and Scale teams
• Document research and results clearly and concisely, communicate findings internally and externally, and provide continuous feedback to Engineering teams and leadership
  

Required Skills

• 6+ years of combined education and experience in a role like Software Engineering, Performance Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
• Significant hands?on experience deploying and managing container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes or Red?Hat OpenShift
• Solid Linux system administration and engineering skills, with a good understanding of bare?metal server operations
• Solid scripting skills, particularly in Bash, Python, Golang, or Red?Hat Ansible Automation Platform
• Proven experience in designing, implementing, and documenting performance testing strategies and frameworks for optimizing system performance
• A solid understanding of performance analysis methodologies and experience with system?level performance tools (e.g., iostat, vmstat, sar, perf)
• Familiarity with observability stacks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, OpenTelemetry, ELK, Splunk)
• Understanding of cloud?native architectures, microservices, CI/CD pipelines, and collaborative software development methodologies, tools and version control (git, gitLab)
• Knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, load balancing, and container networking
• Demonstrated abilities to take initiative, work independently, proactively seek collaboration and drive projects to completion
• Excellent communication skills and ability to present technical findings to diverse audiences
• Collaborate with cross?functional teams to identify opportunities for AI integration within the software development lifecycle, driving continuous improvement and innovation in engineering practices; share use cases for successful experiments with stakeholders for broader use
  

The Following Are Considered a Plus

• Direct experience with telecommunications workloads (5G Core, RAN) or telco architectures
• A demonstrated history of contributing to open?source projects
• Experience with using AI for building testing frameworks and automation
• Experience working with public clouds like AWS, Azure, GCP or IBM Cloud
  

Salary range for this position is $116,270.00 $191,840.00. Actual offer will be based on your qualifications.

Pay Transparency

Red?Hat determines compensation based on several factors including but not limited to job location, experience, applicable skills and training, external market value, and internal pay equity. Annual salary is one component of Red?Hats compensation package. This position may also be eligible for bonus, commission, and/or equity. For positions with Remote?US locations, the actual salary range for the position may differ based on location but will be commensurate with job duties and relevant work experience.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Flexible Spending Accounthealthcare and dependent care
• Health Savings Accounthigh?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.

Inclusion at Red?Hat

Red?Hats culture is built on the open source principles of transparency, collaboration, and inclusion, where the best ideas can come from anywhere and anyone. When this is realized, it empowers people from different backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences to come together to share ideas, challenge the status quo, and drive innovation. Our aspiration is that everyone experiences this culture with equal opportunity and access, and that all voices are not only heard but also celebrated. We hope you will join our celebration, and we welcome and encourage applicants from all the beautiful dimensions that compose our global village.

Equal Opportunity Policy (EEO)

Red?Hat is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer. We review applications for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, veteran status, genetic information, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, or any other basis prohibited by law.

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