Senior Software Engineer - OpenShift

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 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. You will be part of the core team responsible for the next evolution of the "must-gather" tool a critical utility used for collecting cluster data for support, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis. In this role, youll work in an agile development environment and contribute to the next phase of must-gather, with a focus on adding AI-driven debugging capabilities. 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?

• Lead the design, development, and implementation of improvements to the OpenShift container platform.
• Assist in developing architectural and design principles to improve performance, capacity, and scalability of product or customer built solution on software product
• Integrate AI/ML models and techniques to automate data analysis, identify potential issues proactively, and improve the accuracy of troubleshooting.
• 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.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest advancements in software engineering, AI, and cloud technologies.

What will you bring?

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Strong proficiency in programming languages relevant to OpenShift development (e.g., Go, Java).
• 5+ years of experience in software development, with a focus on cloud-native technologies and distributed systems.
• Experience with containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Solid understanding of diagnostic and troubleshooting tools and techniques in a cluster environment.
• Proven experience in designing, training, and deploying AI/ML models.
• Familiarity with AI frameworks and libraries (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch).
• Experience with data processing and analysis pipelines.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

The following are considered a plus:

• 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.