Principal Software Engineer, OpenShift Container Platform

Red Hat

full-time

Posted on: 9/26/2025

Origin: • 🇮🇹 Italy

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About the role

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.
Implement customer requirements and ensure evolving needs of Red Hat OpenShift’s customer base are met.
Work with engineering teams, product management, and stakeholders to identify and prioritize features for releases.
Work proactively with the open source Kubernetes community and lead implementation of improvements into the product.
Develop architectural and design principles to improve performance, capacity, and scalability of the product.
Communicate architectural decisions effectively to stakeholders and technical staff.
Define high-level structure of software systems, components, interfaces, and external interactions.
Provide architecture viewpoint on customer solution architecture & design in context of the product.
Develop features and bug fixes in Kubernetes and OpenShift, participate in peer code reviews, CI/CD, and respond to security threats.
Act as a point of escalation for implementation of critical customer driven features and bug resolution.

An engineering degree or higher, or equivalent in computer science or a related field
Architectural mindset and expertise in architecting and designing new systems
Product Architecture experience
8+ years of experience writing code in programming languages such as Golang
Experience with containers and kubernetes
Problem solving and troubleshooting skills with Root Cause Analysis experience
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Experience of working with customers and helping them in their transformation journey as product advocate would be advantageous
Familiarity with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CoreOS, Fedora or Red Hat OpenShift.
Understanding of open source development models
Prior participation in open source community software development or leadership
Familiarity with enterprise application development