Software Engineer

Job Description

Company Description

At Red Hat, we connect an innovative community of customers, partners, and contributors to deliver an open source stack of trusted, high-performing solutions. We offer cloud, Linux, middleware, storage, and virtualization technologies, together with award-winning global customer support, consulting, and implementation services. Red Hat is a rapidly growing company supporting more than 90% of Fortune 500 companies.

Job summary

The Red Hat Engineering team is looking for a Software Engineer with a solid technical background in virtualization technologies to join us in Ireland. In this role, you will work on open source system-level virtualization projects related to KVM, primarily on the user space portion of the stack. You will use both traditional programming languages like C and others like Rust or Go. You should be willing to experiment with new technologies and programming languages in a rapidly changing field and you should expect to be involved with existing and new projects. You will have an opportunity to work with the latest technologies in virtualization, containers, storage, and networking for several CPU architectures. As a Software Engineer, you will cooperate with engineers both inside and outside of Red Hat in distributed open source projects.

Primary job responsibilities

• Work as part of a distributed team with several remote team members
• Assist in design discussions and proposals for new projects or changes in the KVM virtualization stack
• Design and develop new features and fix bugs in open source KVM virtualization projects like QEMU, libvirt, Kata Containers, container-native virtualization (CNV), and others
• Review patches and provide feedback on the community-oriented enhancements and bug fixes
• Contribute automated tests to continuous integration (CI) systems

Required skills

• Solid skills in C and relevant coding experience
• Good understanding of and experience with Linux system internals and system engineering, with a particular emphasis on virtualization and containers
• Interest in modern programming languages like Rust and Go; proven experience with these languages is a plus
• Understanding of open source development; active open source contributions are a big plus

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