Our Engineering team is looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join our global team In this role, you will work as part of a global software development team to design, architect, and implement future virtualization solutions . You will work as part of a distributed team both on your own and in close collaboration across our platform engineering teams.
Our commitment to open source innovation extends beyond our products – its embedded in how we work and grow. We embrace change – especially in our fast-moving technological landscape – and have a strong growth mindset. That's why we encourage our teams to proactively, thoughtfully, and ethically use AI to simplify their workflows, cut complexity, and boost efficiency. This empowers our associates to focus on higher-impact work, creating smart, more innovative solutions that solve our customers' most pressing challenges.
What you will do:
Design, develop, and implement virtualization related solutions for our next-generation platforms, based on OpenShift and thus Kubernetes
Become responsible for the quality of our offerings, participate in peer code reviews and continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD), and respond to security threats (CVEs).
Participate in, lead, and create upstream networking project communities, including contributing new development work and existing features and fixes for projects like Kubernetes, Kubernetes descheduler, KubeVirt, and Forklift
Use your deep virtualization and Kubernetes expertise to help customers solve complex business problems with creative solutions.
Our commitment to open source innovation extends beyond our products – its embedded in how we work and grow. We embrace change – especially in our fast-moving technological landscape – and have a strong growth mindset. That's why we encourage our teams to proactively, thoughtfully, and ethically use AI to simplify their workflows, cut complexity, and boost efficiency. This empowers our associates to focus on higher-impact work, creating smart, more innovative solutions that solve our customers' most pressing challenges.
What you will do:
Design, develop, and implement virtualization related solutions for our next-generation platforms, based on OpenShift and thus Kubernetes
Become responsible for the quality of our offerings, participate in peer code reviews and continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD), and respond to security threats (CVEs).
Participate in, lead, and create upstream networking project communities, including contributing new development work and existing features and fixes for projects like Kubernetes, Kubernetes descheduler, KubeVirt, and Forklift
Use your deep virtualization and Kubernetes expertise to help customers solve complex business problems with creative solutions.
Requirements:
Strong experience with Kubernetes, OpenShift, and container networking technologies
Strong virtualization knowledge including expertise in one or more of scheduling, fencing, storage, network, life-cycle management
Experience with cloud technologies
Experience using programming languages like Go, Python or C, C++
Understanding of how open source and free software communities work
Motivated with a proactive attitude, willingness to tackle new problems, and an ability to develop new architectures and identify good ones
Ability to work well as part of a team in a highly collaborative, distributed environment with a diverse team
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify opportunities for AI integration within the software development lifecycle, driving continuous improvement and innovation in engineering practices; share use cases for successful experiments with stakeholders for broader use.
The following are considered a plus:
Experience with Linux virtualization technologies
Ability to present to customers and stakeholders
Previous contributions to open source projects or being an open source maintainer
Experience with development for public cloud services, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Compute Engine (GCE), and Microsoft Azure.
Strong experience with Kubernetes, OpenShift, and container networking technologies
Strong virtualization knowledge including expertise in one or more of scheduling, fencing, storage, network, life-cycle management
Experience with cloud technologies
Experience using programming languages like Go, Python or C, C++
Understanding of how open source and free software communities work
Motivated with a proactive attitude, willingness to tackle new problems, and an ability to develop new architectures and identify good ones
Ability to work well as part of a team in a highly collaborative, distributed environment with a diverse team
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify opportunities for AI integration within the software development lifecycle, driving continuous improvement and innovation in engineering practices; share use cases for successful experiments with stakeholders for broader use.
The following are considered a plus:
Experience with Linux virtualization technologies
Ability to present to customers and stakeholders
Previous contributions to open source projects or being an open source maintainer
Experience with development for public cloud services, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Compute Engine (GCE), and Microsoft Azure.
This position is open to all candidates.
