Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Red Hat

Senior Software Engineer contributing to upstream open source projects at Red Hat. Building and operating ROSA on AWS with end-to-end responsibility for system reliability.

Posted 6/22/2026full-timeRaleigh • North Carolina • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $118,600 - $195,680 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudDistributed SystemsEC2GoKubernetesMicroservicesOpenShiftOpen Source

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Contribute production-grade software to upstream open source projects including HyperShift and OpenShift
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
Design and evolve observability (metrics, logs, traces) and SLOs as part of the software lifecycle
Raise the technical bar across the team through design docs, code review, pairing, and knowledge transfer
Work in a high-autonomy engineering team where you identify the most impactful problems and lead them from concept through implementation and production adoption

Requirements

What you’ll need

4+ years of software engineering experience building and shipping production systems in cloud environments, including microservices, platforms, or distributed systems
Strong proficiency in Go
Deep, hands-on Kubernetes experience from a builder's perspective
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
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

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 systemsproduction systemsobservabilitySLOscode reviewdesign documentation

Soft Skills

clear communicationcollaborationleadershipproblem identificationknowledge transferdesign architecturetradeoff analysisend-to-end responsibilitydiagnosing issuespreventing failures