About the job
The Red Hat Software Engineering team is looking for a Software Engineer to join our Managed-Tenants Site Reliability Engineering (MT-SRE) team in Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA). In this role, you will help architect, modify, improve, and support the platform running user-facing Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and managed service offerings on top of Red Hat OpenShift. Using your expertise in SRE principles of automation and continuous improvement, you will help create an environment where availability, reliability, and security are threaded through the entire application lifecycle, not treated as an afterthought. As a Software Engineer, you will write new software as required to automate the building, testing, deployment, promotion, monitoring, alerting, and maintenance of Red Hat's growing suite of cloud-native applications. As part of a rapidly growing team, you will also provide mentorship to colleagues. Successful applicants must reside in a country where Red Hat is registered to do business.
What you will do
Establish and enforce SRE best practices through platform constraints and high-fidelity system modeling
Develop secure service architecture using cloud-native technologies coupled with traditional security approaches
Develop systems, primarily in Python and Golang, to prevent outages through automatic scanning and remediation
Participate in an on-call rotation for rapid incident response
About Red Hat
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What you will bring
Proficiency with building applications and web-services using modern programming languages; Python or Go are a plus
Understanding of distributed systems and common distributed system failure domains
Background writing reliable software and automation
Basic experience of developing and managing a production service with Kubernetes
Ability to effectively work in a globally distributed team
The following experience is considered a plus:
Developing a Kubernetes controller, operator, or platform component
Participation in an on call rotation
Building hosted or managed services on top of Kubernetes or OpenShift
Operations experience with a production user-facing application
Prior experience working on a globally distributed, remote team
