Senior Software Engineer - Advanced Cluster Management

About the Job:

The Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer in India (Pune or Bangalore). In this role, you will contribute to the engineering and development of our multicluster fleet management capabilities. You will collaborate closely with architects and global engineering groups in North America, APAC, and EU to ensure seamless integration and feature delivery. We are looking for an exceptional communicator and software developer who can bridge technical gaps across time zones and foster an inclusive, collaborative environment. You will actively collaborate with product managers, engineering leadership, and open source communities to translate complex requirements into scalable solutions. You will have the unique opportunity to help shape the technical foundation of this strategic team and act as a role model for technical excellence.

What you will do:

• Contribute to and help shape the technical direction for the Advanced Cluster Management team in India, collaborating with technical leadership and peers globally.

• Lead the design and development of scalable, distributed enterprise software using Go (Golang) and cloud-native technologies.

• Act as a technical connector, facilitating knowledge transfer, creating comprehensive documentation (DDR, ADR, etc.), and preventing the formation of isolated silos between regions.

• Ensure product quality by actively participating in peer code reviews, continuous integration (CI) and delivery (CD), and secure engineering practices.

• Mentor and support a newly formed team of engineers, fostering technical excellence, code quality, and a collaborative environment.

• Utilize AI-assisted development tools (e.g. Cursor, Claude Code, Gemini) for code generation, auto-completion, and intelligent suggestions to accelerate development cycles and enhance code quality.

What you will bring

• 5+ years of software development experience with a background in designing and building scalable, distributed systems.

• Practical experience with Kubernetes is required, along with familiarity in virtualization and/or cluster management, either directly or through the use of platforms like Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management (RHACM).

• Proficiency in the Go (Golang) programming language and microservices architectures.

• Practical understanding of cloud-native development, continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, and observability practices.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with a proven ability to connect and collaborate with globally distributed teams across different time zones.

• A natural technology curiosity and a supportive mindset toward AI tools and frameworks, with the ability to leverage them for problem-solving and code generation.

The following are considered a plus:

• Experience contributing to open source development communities.

• Experience with leveraging AI tools to enhance productivity and quality for both personal work and team deliverables.

• Familiarity with DevOps or site reliability engineering (SRE) backgrounds.

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