Principal Software Engineer

Red Hat’s Global Engineering organization is looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join the Telco Partner Architecture team in Telco Engineering. You will be part of a team responsible for designing and implementing the container platform for 5G telecommunication networks, contributing to industry-leading technologies in the Kubernetes and Telecom ecosystem with Telco Partners in EMEA or APAC, for example projects, and. As a part of a geographically distributed team, you will work with multiple Red Hat teams and open source communities around the globe. To be successful in this role, you will need to have motivation, curiosity, passion for problem solving, and experience with Linux technologies, Kubernetes and open source development models. We can hire you in any EMEA or APAC country where Red Hat has a legal presence. What you will do Define, contribute to, and collaborate with Telco partners on Blueprints and system architectures pairing Red Hat platforms with Partner technology Establish long-term technical relationships with key Telco partners, gathering and analyzing partner requirements and use cases to deliver meaningful business outcomes Play an active hands-on role in researching and then architecting various OpenShift and Telco specific features into a unified solution, proactively test the involved technologies, experiment and provide demonstrations Collaborate across teams (Product Management, Engineering, QE, Consulting, Support) to influence future directions and be an advocate for feature development and support needed for strategic partners’ next generation offerings Evangelize the team's work through blogs, web postings, or conference talks Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify opportunities for AI integration, driving continuous improvement and innovation in engineering practices What you will bring Strong architectural experience developing solution designs / reference implementations from concept to delivery Telco specific experience and knowledge in Edge designs, High Availability, Hybrid Cloud, NFV architecture and containerized workload characteristics Understanding of how open source and free software communities work Experience working with Partners to develop and implement new technologies, with an ability to adapt and quickly learn Hands on Kubernetes and/or OpenShift technologies experience - 2+ years Comfortable working on complex multidisciplinary problems and bringing together a diverse set of technical options to a clear path forward. Experience with Linux system programming in a distributed telecom environment, or experience and designing and integrating distributed systems in a telecom environment Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English The following are considered a plus: 7+ years of experience in a Linux environment with at least one of the following languages: Golang, Python, Java, or C/C++. Leading or contributing to open source communities or being an open source maintainer. Experience with cloud-native design principles especially in the context of container technologies (docker, cri-o) and workloads (CNFs) on kubernetes System and performance engineering analysis and a proven track record of unlocking performance in constrained environments, including latency sensitive workload tuning (IEQ lines, CPU pinning, NUMA affinity, etc) Comfortable using Gen AI as a productivity enhancement and for building tooling and automations Strong experience with automation tools and/or scripting languages (Ansible, bash, python) Certified RHEL/Kubernetes Administrator You’re willing to wear a lot of red, or a red hat #LI-OA1 About Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver high-performing Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. 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