Senior Software Engineer Openshift Engineering

About the Job

The Red Hat OpenShift Engineering team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join us in Bangalore this role you will work in an agile team and contribute to the engineering of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform and its supporting components in the core of Kubernetes. As a Senior Software Engineer you will be a key contributor in implementing customer requirements and ensuring the evolving needs of Red Hat OpenShifts rapidly growing customer base are met. Youll need to work with various engineering teams as well as product management and other key stakeholders across the product to identify and prioritize features to existing and upcoming releases. You will work proactively with the open source Kubernetes community and lead the implementation of important improvements from the project in our software product.

What will you do

Develop features and bug fixes in Kubernetes and OpenShift within an agile team and as part of a global development organization.

Become responsible for our product quality participate in peer code reviews continuous integration and delivery respond to security threats

Work with Engineering Product Management and Support stakeholders to prioritize customer facing features during the planning development and delivery.

Act as a point of escalation for implementation of critical customer driven features and bug resolution.

Follow the Kubernetes community and proactively lead the implementation of important improvements from the project in our product

Assist in developing architectural and design principles to improve performance capacity and scalability of product or customer built solution on software product

What will you bring

An engineering degree or higher or equivalent in computer science or a related field.

Candidates must have the legal rights to work in India without the need for visa sponsorship

4 years of experience writing code in programming languages such as Go / Java or Python etc.

Experience with containers and kubernetes

Problem solving and troubleshooting skills with Root Cause Analysis experience

Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent

Hands-on learning and mid to senior level experience demonstrating implementation ownership of complex features individually and as a collaboration with others.

Proven experience integrating automated testing quality gates and observability into CI / CD pipelines to ensure reliable maintainable and production-ready software.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Awareness and leveraging of AI tools (like Claude Cursor) for product development life cycle

The following are considered a plus :

Solid understanding of Kubernetes operators controllers components and architecture

Familiarity with Red Hat OpenShift CoreOS Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) or Fedora

Experience of working with customers and helping them in their transformation journey as product advocate would be advantageous

Understanding of open source development models

Prior participation in open source community software development or leadership

Familiarity with enterprise application development

Familiar with test-based development and agile or scrum methodologies is a big plus

Familiar with various observability tools : monitoring logging profiling etc.

Linux networking and container networking knowledge

Experience with development for public cloud services (mainly AWS and Azure)

About Red Hat

Red Hat is the worlds leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions using a community-powered approach to deliver high-performing Linux cloud container and Kubernetes technologies. Spread across 40 countries our associates work flexibly across work environments from in-office to office-flex to fully remote depending on the requirements of their role. Red Hatters are encouraged to bring their best ideas no matter their title or tenure. Were a leader in open source because of our open and inclusive environment. We hire creative passionate people ready to contribute their ideas help solve complex problems and make an impact.

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.

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Required Experience :

Senior IC

Key Skills

Spring,.NET,C / C++,Go,React,OOP,C#,AWS,Data Structures,Software Development,Java,Distributed Systems

Employment Type : Part-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1