Senior Software Engineer - Observability Storage (Czech Republic)

As a Senior Software Engineer for the Observability Storage team, you will help us deliver the future customer experience encompassing all the modern observability signals: logs, metrics and traces. You will leverage AI tools to develop, test and deliver Red Hat’s open-source enterprise grade observability stack. 

The successful candidate will demonstrate the ability to take the  lead in the design and implementation, while ensuring the quality of Red Hat’s complex software solutions to solve our customers' most pressing challenges. This position exists to provide technical leadership that champions a customer-first mindset and a culture of quality within the engineering team. As a mentor and guide, a primary function is to establish and enforce quality standards, ensuring the team delivers scalable, high-quality systems that create measurable value for our users.

What you will do

• Supporting the OpenShift Log Storage Loki Operator - LokiStack integration and continued support / troubleshooting, collaboration with other Observability signal teams, Monitoring and Distributed Tracing to optimize user experience, development and enhancements of our logging stack.
• Technical Impact: Leads the design and development of software solutions for a subsystem or component.
• Ensure Software Quality and Reliability: Owns the quality of their code and contributes to testing frameworks.
• Internal and External Collaboration: Recognized as an active contributor to internal tooling or upstream projects, serving as a role model for community engagement. Often serves as a project reviewer or maintainer.
• Mentor and Develop Engineering Talent: Mentors and coaches other engineers.
• Own and Deliver Business Impact: Owns and delivers features with clear business impact, to deliver end user value.
• Apply and Advance Technical Practices: Supports and implements the adoption of new tools within their team.
• Leverage and Utilize AI Tools: Identifies and resolves moderately complex issues by implementing AI-powered agents to automate non-routine workflows and enhance existing team processes.
• SDLC: Champions and helps refine the team's SDLC, identifying areas for improvement and mentoring junior engineers on best practices to ensure a predictable and high-quality development process.

What you will bring

• Solid understanding of Linux operating system (storage subsystems, block devices, filesystems) and networking
• Knowledge of working with Go programming language is mandatory
• Understanding of Kubernetes components and architecture (PV, PVC, StorageClass, CSI spec)
• Familiarity with Linux containers and container tools
• Expertise in designing, developing, and maintaining test environments and automated test suites
• Experience with continuous integration (CI) tools

The following are considered a plus

• Knowledge of NFS, Gluster, Ceph, iSCSI and / or other storage technologies
• Knowledge of Kubernetes internals (internal APIs, controllers implementation, etc.)
• Experience with Red Hat OpenShift product
• Previous contributions to open source projects or being an open source maintainer

About Red Hat

Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver high-performing Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Spread across 40+ countries, our associates work flexibly across work environments, from in-office, to office-flex, to fully remote, depending on the requirements of their role. Red Hatters are encouraged to bring their best ideas, no matter their title or tenure. We're a leader in open source because of our open and inclusive environment. We hire creative, passionate people ready to contribute their ideas, help solve complex problems, and make an impact.

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