Software Engineer

About the Job:

The Red Hat OpenShift Engineering team is looking for a 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 OpenShift’s rapidly growing customer base are met. You’ll 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. Red Hat offers an inclusive and open environment enriched with Open Management Practices, where you will have the freedom to showcase leadership skills, nurture your DevOps mindset, and bring innovative solutions to complex problems.

What will you do:

• Develop features and bug fixes in Kubernetes(upstream) and OpenShift (downstream) 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

• Leverage AI coding tools (such as Claude Code and Cursor) to automate workflows and streamline the Pull Request process using tools like CodeRabbit. Proactively tackle complex defects by integrating Agentic AI into triaging workflows and rapid legacy codebase analysis. 

What will you bring:

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

• 2+ years of experience writing code in Go Lang.

• Fair knowledge of Containers and Kubernetes

• Problem-solving and troubleshooting skills with Root Cause Analysis experience

• Hands-on experience with using various AI tools and platforms.

• Hands-on learning and experience demonstrating implementation of features individually or as a collaboration with others.

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

The following are considered a plus:

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

• Understanding of open source development models

• Prior participation in open source community software development or leadership

• Familiarity with enterprise platform / 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.

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