Senior Software Maintenance Engineer- Openshift
Red Hat.com
Hybrid
Remote Brazil
Full Time
Job Summary:
The Red Hat Experience Engineering (XE) Sustaining Engineering team is looking for a Senior Software Maintenance Engineer to help lead a new team aimed at improving the long-term product experience of our Red Hat OpenShift customers. In this role, you will work closely with Product Engineering to deliver extended product maintenance work, including handling bugs and CVEs in extended life streams of Red Hat OpenShift. You'll be actively driving all aspects of Red Hat OpenShift maintenance for a subset of product components focused on software development that goes beyond the normal maintenance phase of Red Hat OpenShift minor releases. You will co-lead the patch review process, the development and execution of backports and test plans, and the creation of automation tools to improve the efficiency, flexibility, and quality of Red Hat’s patch delivery to customers.
To succeed in this role, you’ll need to have the ability to think creatively and adapt to rapid change, as well as an eagerness to learn new things, and to innovate for process and quality efficiency.
What You Will Do:
- Contribute to the development of Red Hat OpenShift product maintenance offerings, aiming to make Red Hat a global leader in long-term product experience.
- Diagnose the root cause of failures
- Backport CVE and bug fixes to stable release streams
- Develop, maintain, and monitor tests and onboard automated tests into a continuous integration workflow as much as possible
- Work within the Red Hat OpenShift portfolio and contribute to the delivery of maintenance streams
- Collaborate with developer and QE counterparts, product and project manager, and release engineering teams across the globe to ensure the development and delivery of fixes meet the schedule requirements and high-quality standards expected and required by Red Hat customers
- Develop onboarding and training for new team members
- Mentor junior team members
What You Will Bring:
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering OR quality engineering OR support
- Expertise in at least one or more programming languages such as Go / Python / Java / C / C++ etc.
- Knowledge of containers, Kubernetes, or OpenShift
- Outstanding debugging, troubleshooting, and analytical skills
- Experience committing code at scale on complex source control structures
- Ability to collaborate and communicate effectively with a global team
- Multi-tasking skills and ability to work under tight deadlines
- Fluent written and verbal communication skills in English
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related engineering field, or relevant professional experience
About Red Hat
Red Hat is the world’s 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. We're 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.
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