Software Engineer, Telco

Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, and they are seeking a Software Engineer to join the Telco 5G Platform team. The role involves designing and implementing the container platform for 5G telecommunication networks and contributing to various open source projects within the Kubernetes and Telecom ecosystem.

Responsibilities:

• Bring Telecom High Availability and small footprint concepts to the CNF platform, enabling 5G vRAN deployments
• Play an active role and contribute to multiple open source projects and communities like Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift, Open vSwitch (OVS), and Open Virtual Network (OVN)
• Troubleshoot, analyze bug root causes and provide resolutions
• Review design, enhancement proposals and patches from other members
• System level engineering and design for performance
• Work with the quality engineering team (QE) to ensure effective and complete test coverage
• Define, contribute to and collaborate on new system architectures
• Publicize the team's work through blogs, web postings, or conference talks
• Work across product teams to influence future directions

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent working experience
• 2+ years of experience in a Linux environment with at least one of the following languages: Golang, Python, and/or C/C++
• Good knowledge of Linux Kernel internals and architecture
• Ability to work with Linux Kernel developers to debug and resolve issues
• Comfortable working on large multidisciplinary problems and bringing together a diverse set of technical options to a clear path forward
• Experience with Linux system programming in a distributed telecom environment
• Multi-threaded programming and management of shared resources in complex environments
• Ability to quickly learn new technologies
• Good written and verbal communication skills in English
• Experience with virtualization technologies (QEMU, KVM, etc)
• Experience with Real Time Linux
• Experience with container related technologies (docker, cri-o, etcd)
• Familiarity with the wider Kubernetes and CNCF project ecosystem
• Leading or contributing to open source communities
• Previous code contributions to or participation in open source projects or code samples on GitHub
• You're willing to wear a lot of red or a red hat
• Latency sensitive workload tuning (IEQ lines, CPU pinning, NUMA affinity, etc.)
• System and performance engineering analysis and a proven track record of unlocking performance in constrained environments
• Linux networking or SDN related development contribution