Senior Software Engineer – HCP Platform Engineering

Red Hat

. Contribute production-grade software to upstream open source projects including HyperShift and OpenShift, owning features end-to-end from design and implementation through deployment and long-term lifecycle in production .

Posted 5/7/2026full-timeRaleigh • North Carolina • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $118,600 - $195,680 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudDistributed SystemsEC2GoGrafanaKubernetesMicroservicesOpenShiftOpen SourcePrometheus

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Contribute production-grade software to upstream open source projects including HyperShift and OpenShift, owning features end-to-end from design and implementation through deployment and long-term lifecycle in production
Bring a product and systems lens to architecture decisions, ensuring designs account for scalability, operability, and real-world production constraints from the start
Operate as a full-stack systems owner, participating in on-call rotations and taking end-to-end responsibility for diagnosing, fixing, and preventing production issues
Drive improvements that eliminate entire classes of failures by turning operational learning into durable product and platform enhancements
Design and evolve observability (metrics, logs, traces) and SLOs as part of the software lifecycle, ensuring systems are measurable, debuggable, and resilient by design
Raise the technical bar across the team through design docs, code review, pairing, and knowledge transfer during complex engineering work and incidents
Work in a high-autonomy engineering team where you identify the most impactful problems and lead them from concept through implementation and production adoption
Partner as a peer with product and platform engineering teams to influence architecture, challenge assumptions, and ensure systems are built for scale, reliability, and long-term operability
Integrate AI-assisted development tools (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code) into daily workflows for design, implementation, and debugging — using human judgment to maintain high engineering standards while increasing delivery velocity and system quality

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ years of software engineering experience building and shipping production systems in cloud environments, including microservices, platforms, or distributed systems
Strong proficiency in Go — you write production-quality code, review it critically, and ramp quickly on large, unfamiliar codebases
Deep, hands-on Kubernetes experience from a builder's perspective: you've written operators, controllers, and CRDs in real-world, multi-tenant environments — not just operated clusters others built
Solid understanding of AWS fundamentals (EC2, IAM, networking) and how Kubernetes platforms behave and scale on AWS
Proven experience owning production systems under real SLOs, including participating in on-call and leading incident response with a focus on root cause and long-term fixes
You ramp fast on complex, unfamiliar systems — forming a mental model and making meaningful contributions within weeks
Highly self-directed builder mindset: you identify high-impact problems, propose solutions, and drive them end-to-end without waiting for direction
Strong systems thinking — you naturally connect design decisions to their downstream impact on scalability, reliability, and operability in production
Clear and effective communicator, able to collaborate with engineers on design, architecture, and tradeoffs
Nice to have: Experience with HyperShift, OpenShift, or ROSA in production environments
Familiarity with multi-tenant Kubernetes challenges such as noisy neighbors, control plane scaling, and fleet-level lifecycle management
Contributions to open source projects, particularly in the Kubernetes ecosystem
Experience designing and operating observability at scale (Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace, or similar) across large fleets
Experience leveraging AI-assisted development tools (e.g., coding agents, AI-driven code review, spec-driven workflows) to accelerate development and improve quality

Benefits

Comp & perks

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
Flexible Spending Account - healthcare and dependent care
Health Savings Account - high deductible medical plan
Retirement 401(k) with employer match
Paid time off and holidays
Paid parental leave plans for all new parents
Leave benefits including disability, paid family medical leave, and paid military leave
Additional benefits including employee stock purchase plan, family planning reimbursement, tuition reimbursement, transportation expense account, employee assistance program, and more!

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Hard Skills & Tools

GoKubernetesAWSmicroservicesdistributed systemsobservabilitySLOsAI-assisted development toolsPrometheusGrafana

Soft Skills

self-directedsystems thinkingclear communicationcollaborationproblem identificationsolution proposalend-to-end ownershipcritical code reviewknowledge transferdesign documentation