Senior Software Engineer

About the role

*Telecommuting role to be performed anywhere in the U.S.

Design and develop new features and functionalities for OCI registries inside of Red Hat, including quay.io and registry.redhat.io. Adopt an AI-first approach to engineering that leverages tools such as Claude Code and Cursor to rapidly develop scalable solutions for quay.io.

What You Will Do:

• Maintain virtual globally distributed infrastructure for quay.io running on Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS, including EC2, Aurora Postgres, RDS Proxy, Kinesis, Lambda, S3, CloudFront, and more.
• Utilize knowledge and experience with Kubernetes, OpenShift, Linux, Go, Python, Javascript, React, Git, Redis, SQL, and OCI to maintain and grow quay.io.
• Work with Product Management to drive business and roadmap decisions around Quay.io.
• Collaborate with internal teams to unify the quay.io service experience with the rest of the Red Hat portfolio.
• Participate in and contribute to weekly on-call rotation responsibilities.
• Mentor other Quay.io Engineers and help coordinate overall team efficiency.
• Provide architectural guidance for scaling quay.io to handle future growth.
• Lead post-mortems, define alerts, and reduce time to recovery following service incidents.
• Own documentation for quay.io and registry.redhat.io, providing guidance and support for peers and customers.

What You Will Bring:

• Bachelor's degree (U.S. or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field and four (4) years of experience in the job offered or related role.
• Must have four (4) years of experience with: Python, JavaScript, React, git, and Linux; databases and writing SQL queries, including Postgres, Redis, and ORMs; Kubernetes and OpenShift including writing, deploying, and managing Operators in Go; SaaS development and on-call support for web applications running on AWS; OCI and container registries, and docker or podman; and CI/CD and releases.
• Must have one (1) year of experience with Agentic coding using Claude Code and/or Cursor.

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The salary range for this position is $142,370 - $234,770/year. Actual offer will be based on your qualifications.

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