Principal Software Engineer - OpenShift Virtualization Compute (EMEA)

About this role

Job Summary
The Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization team is looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join the CNV Compute Team. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Quality Engineers and Software Development Engineers, to gain a deep understanding of features, customer use cases, and technical implementations. This position requires a self-motivated individual with passion for problem solving, Linux technologies and Open Source, who can work effectively in a fast-paced, collaborative environment, and has a strong passion for delivering our top-notch software products.


As a Principal Software Engineer, you will design and implement virtualization solutions using Containers and Virtual Machines, contributing to industry-leading technologies such as Kubernetes, OpenShift, Libvirt and QEMU.


As a part of a geographically distributed team you will collaborate with multiple Red Hat engineering teams around the globe. In this role, you’ll also have the opportunity to engage with open-source communities, contribute to the integration of Red Hat, open-source, and partner technologies into a cohesive platform, and play a critical role in delivering high-quality software to customers and open-source ecosystems.


In this role you will deal with Windows guest VMs on Linux hosts and help in debugging and developing features for this combination but not limited to.


What You Will Do

• Play an active role in Container and Virtualization related projects and communities, that is KubeVirt, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Libvirt and QEMU.
• Develop and enhance existing features for Windows guests.
• Debug Windows VMs and related components on Linux hosts.
• Design, develop, enhance KubeVirt (primarily compute features) and collaborate with the community using Golang.
• Integrate changes in multiple projects and services into a consumable feature.
• Submit patches for bug fixes to the community and review patches from other members.
• Respo...