Senior Software Engineer

## Senior Software EngineerApplyremote type: Hybridlocations: Raleightime type: Full timeposted on: Posted Todayjob requisition id: R-058651\*Telecommuting permitted: work may be performed within normal commuting distance from the Red Hat, LLC office in Raleigh, NC.Design and develop backend features and services for large-scale distributed systems running on Kubernetes and OpenShift. Implement backend components that support automated cluster lifecycle management, provisioning, and configuration workflows.**What You Will Do:*** Develop and integrate features that interact with virtualization and cloud platforms such as VMware vSphere (VCD/VCF), Nutanix Prism Central, and bare-metal hosts.* Build and maintain CI/CD automation, tooling, and pipelines to support continuous delivery and testing.* Troubleshoot and debug issues across Linux systems, Kubernetes controllers, virtualization layers, and hardware nodes.* Design and maintain backend APIs (REST/gRPC), including schema definition, service-to-service communication, and OpenAPI/Swagger specifications.* Improve performance, observability, scalability, and reliability across platform components.* Collaborate with engineering teams on architecture design, code reviews, and engineering best practices.**What You Will Bring:*** Bachelor's degree (U.S. or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Communications Engineering or related field and five (5) years of experience in the job offered or related role.* Must have five (5) years of experience with: programming in Go or Python programming languages; designing and developing distributed or large-scale backend systems; developing features for Kubernetes-based platforms, including controller-runtime patterns, reconciliation loops, CRDs, and OpenShift-specific extensions such as Machine API and cluster operators; cloud-native architectures, microservices, and containerized environments; and designing, developing, and integrating backend APIs (REST or gRPC), including defining API schemas, implementing service-to-service communication, and using OpenAPI/Swagger specifications.* Must have four (4) years of experience with: virtualization or cloud platforms, including VMware vSphere and Nutanix, as well as Prism Central and related management APIs; and working with bare-metal systems, hardware provisioning, or Linux system-level debugging.* Must have three (3) years of experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, specifically Prow and Jenkins.#LI-DNIThe salary range for this position is $157,248 – $195,680/year. 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