Principal Software Engineer - OpenShift Service Mesh - Istio

The Red Hat Open Shift Service Mesh team is looking for a motivated Principal 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 Open Shift. 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.

• Collaborate with peers and the Istio community on the design and development of features, enhancements, and bug fixes within Istio
• Mentor and coach junior team members, and work with cross functional teams across Red Hat
• Develop examples demonstrating features of Istio within Red Hat Open Shift
• 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 Open Shift
• Interact with globally distributed open source project teams and communities inside and outside of Red Hat

• Highly experienced in software development
• 3+ years of experience programming with Go, with experience implementing controllers and/or operators on Kubernetes
• 3+ years experience working with cloud technologies like Red Hat Open Shift, Kubernetes, Docker, and/or other cloud platforms
• Knowledge of networking fundamentals and protocols such as TCP, TLS, HTTP, HTTPS, etc.
• Ability to proactively identify, address, and resolve issues with minimal supervision
• Written and verbal English communication skills
• Passion for open source software, a positive attitude, and a desire to share ideas openly
• Experience contributing to an open source project/community is a plus

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The Principal Software Engineer is a technical authority who leads the design of systems that involve multiple components and coordinates across teams, setting a technical direction that anticipates future customer needs and establishes the standard for software quality. This role is responsible for ensuring the integrity and long‑term quality of our software, ensuring it empowers our customers to deliver on their goals.

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This role may come into contact with confidential or sensitive customer information requiring special treatment in accordance with Red Hat policies and applicable privacy laws.

• Technical Impact:
  Leads the design and development of software solutions for features that cross multiple subsystems or components.
• Ensure Software Quality and Reliability:
  Establishes, maintains, and monitors testing practices involving multiple components and teams.
• Internal and External
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Acts as a key representative and leader within the community, advocating for internal or external customer needs, while aligning products with the community direction.
• Mentor and Develop Engineering Talent:
  Across teams, coaches and mentors senior engineers.
• Own and Deliver Business Impact:
  Owns and delivers technical initiatives with visible business impact, enabling the entire team to deliver value to the end user.
• Apply and Advance Technical Practices:
  Drives the adoption of new tools within a set of teams.
• Leverage and Utilize AI Tools:
  Evaluates and introduces new AI‑driven methodologies that resolve complex issues and improve Engineering efficiency.
• SDLC:
  Leads the definition and implementation of the SDLC for complex multi‑component systems, ensuring that the process scales effectively…