Senior Software Engineer - Red Hat OpenShift on OpenStack (Ireland)

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  • Waterford
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 7 days ago
The Red Hat OpenStack engineering team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join us in Ireland. In this role, you will play a significant role in the Red Hat OpenShift on OpenStack product (“Shift On Stack”). You'll contribute to feature development, defect fixing, testing, sprint planning and process improvement as part of a highly effective and dynamic team that offers Red Hat’s customers a solution to provision Red Hat OpenShift clusters on top of a Red Hat OpenStack Platform deployment.As a Senior Software Engineer, you will participate as a member of a geographically distributed team, using multiple communication tools for close collaboration. You'll need to have passion for modern open source development methods, an interest in containerisation/virtualisation technologies, and a desire to apply broad software engineering skills to product development. Successful applicants must reside in a country where Red Hat is registered to do business.What you will do
  • Become a significant contributor to the various components of Shift On Stack (which range from platform support pieces inside the Red Hat OpenShift installer, to Operators for provisioning resources in Red Hat OpenStack Platform)
  • Contribute to the regular delivery cadence of Shift On Stack
  • Build and maintain testing pipelines for Shift On Stack to cover new features, new integrations with OpenShift and OpenStack, and to guard against regressions in quality
  • Work with Red Hat OpenShift teams to shepherd code changes through their processes
What you will bring
  • Existing development skills in Go is a must
  • Experience of rigorous software testing
  • Passion for open source software development
  • Deep understanding of cloud computing and container management; OpenShift/Kubernetes is a must
  • Ability to work in a distributed team environment
  • Experience using, developing, or administering Red Hat OpenStack Platform and/or Red Hat OpenShift environments is a big plus
  • A willingness to proactively utilize AI-assisted development tools such as Cursor and Claude Code for code generation, auto-completion, and intelligent suggestions to accelerate development cycles and enhance code quality.
  • Open to exploring and experimenting with emerging AI technologies relevant to software development, proactively identifying opportunities to incorporate new AI capabilities into existing workflows and tooling
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