Principal Software Engineer - Virtualization Compute

Title: Principal Software Engineer - OpenShift Virtualization Compute (EMEA)

Hybrid

locations

• Brno - Tech Park Brno - C
• Remote Italy
• Remote Portugal
• Remote Poland
• Rome
• Milan

time type Full time

Job Description:

As a part of a geographically distributed team you will collaborate with multiple Red Hat engineering teams around the globe. In this role, you'll also have the opportunity to engage with open-source communities, contribute to the integration of Red Hat, open-source, and partner technologies into a cohesive platform, and play a critical role in delivering high-quality software to customers and open-source ecosystems.

In this role you will deal with Windows guest VMs on Linux hosts and help debug and develop features for this combination but not limited to.

What you will do:

• Play an active role in Container and Virtualization related projects and communities, that is KubeVirt, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Libvirt and QEMU.

• Develop and enhance existing features for Windows guests.

• Debug Windows VMs and related components on Linux hosts.

• Design, develop and enhance KubeVirt (primarily compute features) and collaborate with the community using Golang.

• Integrate changes in multiple projects and services into a consumable feature.

• Submit patches for bug fixes to the community and review patches from other members.

• Responsible for code maintenance and quality by writing unit and functional tests.

• Work with the Quality Engineering team members to ensure projects are tested correctly.

• Constantly learn and gain a deeper understanding of our offerings and current technologies.

• Publicize the team's work through blogs, web postings, or conference talks.

What you will bring:

• Minimum of 4+ years of relevant work experience

• Experience with at least one high level language, such as Golang, Python, or C/C++.

• Experience with Windows operating systems and their unique characteristics.

• Hands-on experience Windows in kernel programming, knowledge of Kernel concepts (control groups and namespaces) is a big plus

• Good analytical, troubleshooting and debugging skills.

• Self-motivated with the ability to quickly learn new technologies.

• Good written and verbal communication skills in English.

The following are considered a plus:

• Experience with container-orchestration development (Kubernetes / OpenShift).

• Experience with virtualization and Compute technologies (QEMU, KVM, OpenStack, RHV, VMware, LibVirt etc), distributed systems, clusters.

• Familiarity with open source software development methodologies.

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