Job Summary
The Red Hat Middleware Engineering team is looking for a Principal Software Engineer. In this role, you will develop critical features of open-source software. You’ll work on Debezium, an open-source project building a distributed platform for capturing changes from databases with very low latency. Written in Java and working heavily with DBMS-specific features to create connectors that capture the changes and write them as events to Kafka in the same order they appear in the databases, allowing other applications and services to consume and react to these changes, Debezium is designed never to miss changes, even when things go wrong. As a Principal Software Engineer, you will gain experience with cloud services, distributed systems, stream processing, various databases, monitoring and managing distributed systems, and working with open source. You will also be involved in challenging discussions to define and set the priorities of the Debezium Roadmap. Finally, you’ll play an important role in the open-source community surrounding Debezium. Remote candidates will be considered.

Primary Job Responsibilities

• Participate in the design, development, and testing phases of various Debezium features, including adding new and enhancing existing DBMS-specific connectors and creating tooling for management, monitoring and cloud support
• Debug Java code to diagnose, fix, and patch customer issues
• Execute performance testing, tuning, and profiling
• Write and maintain unit and integration tests
• Build demos and proofs of concepts; present Debezium in blog posts and conference talks
• Participate in project forums, community chat, and bug tracking and tasking systems to interact with user and developer communities
• Collaborate with related teams in Red Hat like quality engineering (QE), documentation, and support

Required Skills

• Proficient in Java, with extensive development experience
• Familiarity with at least one of the databases supported by Debezium (MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle or Cassandra)
• Familiarity with Java concurrency and parallel programming principles
• Experience with Docker containers; experience with Kubernetes or Red Hat OpenShift is a plus
• Motivated with the ability to work on your own

Following are considered a plus:

• Understanding of distributed systems, especially networking and clustering; knowledge of Kafka and stream processing is a plus
• Experience working with a distributed development team; open source software development experience is a plus

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• Participate in the design, development, and testing phases of various Debezium features, including adding new and enhancing existing DBMS-specific connectors and creating tooling for management, monitoring and cloud support
• Debug Java code to diagnose, fix, and patch customer issues
• Execute performance testing, tuning, and profiling
• Write and maintain unit and integration tests
• Build demos and proofs of concepts; present Debezium in blog posts and conference talks
• Participate in project forums, community chat, and bug tracking and tasking systems to interact with user and developer communities
• Collaborate with related teams in Red Hat like quality engineering (QE), documentation, and suppor