The Red Hat Ansible Engineering team is looking for a highly motivated and passionate Senior Software Engineer to join our Platform Services team. As a member of this dynamic team, you will contribute to and support the
Ansible Automation Platform
, working closely with other agile teams to deliver value to our customers across the globe. We offer a stimulating and enjoyable work environment that prioritizes collaboration and open-source development. In this role, you will have the opportunity to think creatively, adapt to the changing needs of the business and continuously learn and deliver solutions to our customers and communities. This position provides a fantastic chance to develop your software development skills with modern languages, frameworks and technologies while being a part of Red Hat’s unique culture. Come join this team and work with customers and communities that are passionate about automation and IT orchestration.

What you’ll do

• Develop secure, reliable and scalable applications using Python and Django
• Contribute to the design, development and testing of the Ansible Automation Platform and it’s upstream projects
• Define, review and execute technical best practices
• Help and develop peers through knowledge sharing, mentoring and collaboration
• Work with peer teams to coordinate changes and mitigate risks to our delivery pipelines
• Participate in product release cycles, deploying code to staging and production environments, integrating with CI/CD tooling and monitoring
• Work with customers and assist them by debugging issues

What you’ll bring

• Practical development experience in a language like Go, Java or Python; expertise in at least one of the programming languages to build enterprise applications and/or backend services/applications
• Familiarity with frameworks, libraries, or SDKs for your language of choice
• Experience building RESTful API’s and working with clients that consume them
• Background in Linux or UNIX operating systems, CI/CD pipelines
• Experience writing reliable enterprise-grade software
• Experience working with a globally distributed team and communicating between different teams
• Ability to examine various technological areas deeply and deliver solutions
• Willingness to learn new technologies and make an impact
• Good written and verbal communication skills in English

Things considered a plus

• Familiarity with Red Hat’s Ansible Automation Platform
• Experience integrating Redis or similar platforms into applications
• Experience with container-related technologies (Kubernetes, OpenShift, etc.), virtualization, or distributed systems
• Experience with AWS, GCP or Azure
• Experience using Ansible as an automation tool
• Familiarity with the agile methodology and scrum to deliver software solutions

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• Develop secure, reliable and scalable applications using Python and Django
• Contribute to the design, development and testing of the Ansible Automation Platform and it’s upstream projects
• Define, review and execute technical best practices
• Help and develop peers through knowledge sharing, mentoring and collaboration
• Work with peer teams to coordinate changes and mitigate risks to our delivery pipelines
• Participate in product release cycles, deploying code to staging and production environments, integrating with CI/CD tooling and monitoring
• Work with customers and assist them by debugging issue