**About the job:** The Red Hat Performance and Scale Engineering team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join us in Bangalore, India. In this role, you will work with a diverse team of highly motivated engineers focused on the performance and scale characterization, and improvement of current and future Red Hat solutions. You'll have the opportunity to collaborate with other engineering teams to optimize the components that make our open source solutions perform at the highest level for Red Hat enterprise customers. This role can be based anywhere in India. **What will you do?** + Work on performance and scale characterization and enhancement of the solution based on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform and Kubernetes + Automate, test, and improve solutions and technologies including scale-out Linux containers with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform + Collaborate with software engineers and test engineers to identify and resolve critical performance issues and help guide solutions + Test, analyze, and document results via Red Hat performance briefs and reference architectures + Use tools for metrics, monitoring and results from analysis using Grafana, Prometheus, Elasticsearch and Kibana + Regularly provide updates to development, quality engineers and product management teams + Mentor other engineers and help manage the onboarding process for new hires + Provide guidance and support to associates in solving issues, removing blockers, and proposing fixes to meet the project deliveries + Work as part of an agile team to actively communicate status and complete deliverables on schedule **What will you bring?** + An engineering degree or higher, or equivalent in computer science or a related field + Overall 5 + years of experience in software development + At least 3 years of experience in programming languages, particularly Python. + At least 2 years experience with containers and kubernetes + Passion for testing and optimizing software performance + Background in software performance and scale testing, automation tooling, optimization, and monitoring + Ability to convert raw data into meaningful graphs, draw conclusions, and present results with recommendations for improvement + Familiarity with a variety of concepts, practices, and procedures in addressing system performance + Motivated, with excellent judgment and decision-making skills **The following are considered a plus:** + Experience with cloud technologies is a plus + Familiarity with Red Hat OpenShift. + Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) certification is a major plus + Understanding of open source development models + Prior participation in open source community software development or leadership + Familiarity with enterprise application development + Familiar with test-based development and agile or scrum methodologies + Experience with upstream Kubernetes development is a major plus + Hands-on experience utilizing Ansible, Jenkins, Groovy, and Git. \#LI-BR1 **About Red Hat** Red Hat (https://www.redhat.com/) is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source (https://www.redhat.com/en/about/open-source) software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver high-performing Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. 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