Make a difference in the world of Serverless architecture and services based on the Knative project. Red Hat OpenShift Serverless Engineering team is looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join us. In this role, you will contribute to the development and operation of Serverless and event driven applications running on OpenShift, leveraging Red Hat's portfolio of components. You will work in the upstream Knative community and on our Serverless product. You'll need to have the ability to think creatively, adapt to rapid change and have the willingness to learn new things. Occasional travel may be required to present and evangelize Red Hat's involvement with Knative and other upstream projects, along with the occasional offsite meeting.

What will you do:

• Provide complex contributions to upstream projects like Knative (https://knative.dev/docs/) , Kubernetes, CloudEvents, BuildPacks, and Red Hat OpenShift and help technically mentor other team members

• Work in the upstream community to expand the Knative ecosystem (eg. API design, specifications, controllers, testing)

• Contribute to the Red Hat Operators that manage Knative

• Contribute to the development of design patterns, tooling, and best practice guides for developing Knative components

• Work with other team members on tooling and processes such as CI/CD and productization

• Interact with globally distributed open source project teams and communities

• Collaborate with the Product Manager, as well as the Quality Engineering, Program Management, and Documentation teams

• Evangelize Knative and Red Hat Serverless through conference talks, blog posts, articles, etc.

What will you bring

• 5+ years of software development experience

• Advanced programming experience ideally in Go

• Experience with containers and Kubernetes platform development

• Solid understanding of the principles of reliable distributed systems

• Written and verbal English communication skills

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

• Other tools a candidate should be familiar and comfortable with include: Git, Github/Pull Requests, JIRA, Linux, CI Systems

The following are considered a plus:

• Experience with networking technology like Istio or Envoy is considered

• Experience working on a distributed team with an agile methodology

• Experience with other cloud vendors and technologies, particularly Azure Functions, AWS, or GKE is recommended

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