The Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh team is looking for a motivated Senior Software Engineer to join and grow with us. As a member of our team, you will help improve and optimize Istio for use within our enterprise Kubernetes platform, Red Hat OpenShift. Using your expertise, you will work with Red Hat and the Istio community to deliver features, enhancements, and bug fixes for the benefit of our customers and the broader community of Istio users.

We provide an enjoyable and engaging work environment, with the opportunity for you to collaborate with dynamic and diverse agile teams, working around the world to create value for our customers and partners in an open source way. This is a great opportunity to hone your skills while working with a wide range of languages, frameworks, and technologies. You will become a part of Red Hat’s culture that makes us unique in the industry and you’ll work with communities passionate about open source software.

What you will do

Collaborate with senior engineers and the Istio community on the design and development of features, enhancements, and bug fixes within Istio

Develop examples demonstrating features of Istio within Red Hat OpenShift

Engage with our support team to help them resolve customer issues

Work with our documentation team to improve documentation related to the use of Istio within OpenShift

Interact with globally distributed open source project teams and communities inside and outside of Red Hat

Explore and experiment with emerging AI technologies relevant to software development, proactively identifying opportunities to incorporate new AI capabilities into existing workflows and tooling

What you will bring:

Proven experience designing, coding, testing and releasing products in Go, preferably with a focus on networking applications

Experience with networking protocols such as TCP, TLS, HTTP, HTTPS, etc.

Experience with cloud technologies like Red Hat OpenShift, Kubernetes, Docker, and/or other cloud platforms

Experience using git version control and issue tracking using GitHub issues and/or Jira

Experience contributing to an open source project/community is a plus

Previous experience with Istio, Envoy, or similar projects is a plus

Ability to proactively identify, address, and resolve issues with minimal supervision

Passion for open source software, a positive attitude, and a desire to share ideas openly

Written and verbal English communication skills

If you want to learn more about the project, you can visit the following links:

GitHub organization - https://github.com/openshift-service-mesh/

Istio website - https://istio.io/

Istio GitHub organization - https://github.com/istio

Istio Sail Operator - https://github.com/istio-ecosystem/sail-operator

Envoy website - https://www.envoyproxy.io/

Envoy GitHub organization - https://github.com/envoyproxy

Product link - https://www.openshift.com/learn/topics/service-mesh

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Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver high-performing Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Spread across 40+ countries, our associates work flexibly across work environments, from in-office, to office-flex, to fully remote, depending on the requirements of their role. Red Hatters are encouraged to bring their best ideas, no matter their title or tenure. We're a leader in open source because of our open and inclusive environment. We hire creative, passionate people ready to contribute their ideas, help solve complex problems, and make an impact.

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