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, India. In 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
• Bachelor's 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 opera tors, 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)