Senior Performance Engineer

Job Summary
The Red Hat Performance and Scale Engineering team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our global team. In this role, you will play a critical part in ensuring Red Hat OpenShift, the industry's leading enterprise Kubernetes platform, achieves world-class performance for our telecommunications partners. You will focus on optimizing OpenShift for Telco 5G and future edge computing workloads, including AI applications. If you are passionate about making things fast, scaling systems to their limits, and solving complex problems in a collaborative, open-source culture, we encourage you to apply.

What You Will Do

• Understand the complex architecture of distributed Kubernetes systems and deploy lab environments across dozens or hundreds of nodes that are analogous to customer expectations and demands
• Work closely with management, product owners, developers, and quality engineers to understand product requirements and build suitable performance test plans
• Simulate real-world workloads to systematically stress environments through comprehensive end-to-end automation, leveraging custom built and state of the art open source tools and frameworks
• Deep dive into performance issues with the intent of discovering their root cause on complex distributed systems
• Develop and enhance orchestration, benchmarking, monitoring and reporting tools used within and beyond the Performance and Scale teams
• Document your research and results clearly and concisely, communicate findings both internally and externally, and provide continuous feedback to Engineering teams and the leadership

*What you will bring*

• 5+ years of experience in a role like Software Engineering, Performance Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).
• Proven automation experience with scripting and automation, particularly in Python, Go, and/or Ansible.
• Significant hands-on experience deploying and managing container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes or Red Hat OpenShift.
• Solid Linux system administration and engineering skills, with a good understanding of bare metal server operations.
• A solid understanding of performance analysis methodologies and experience with system-level performance tools (e.g., iostat, vmstat, sar, perf)
• Familiarity with observability stacks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, OpenTelemetry, ELK, Splunk).
• Understanding of cloud-native architectures, microservices, CI/CD pipelines, and collaborative software development methodologies, tools and version control (git, gitLab).
• Knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, load balancing, and container networking
• Demonstrated abilities to take initiative, work independently, proactively seek collaboration and drive projects to completion

The Following Are Considered a Plus

• Direct experience with telecommunications workloads (5G Core, RAN) or telco architectures.
• Experience working with public clouds like AWS, Azure, GCP or IBM Cloud
• Experience contributing to open-source projects.
• Knowledge of AI/ML concepts and their application in tooling or network optimization

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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