Software Maintenance Engineer

Location

Pune | India

Job description

The Red Hat Experience Engineering (XE) team is looking for a “Software Maintenance Engineer” position focused on Red Hat Enterprise Linux to join us. In this role, you'll have the opportunity to work on critical fixes for userspace and kernel components in stable update streams. You will make sure that our solutions fulfill the highest possible enterprise quality, performance, usability, and supportability criteria. You will gain a deep understanding of a variety of technologies from Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).

To succeed in this role, you’ll need to be detail focused and mindful of following secure coding standards as you’ll be working on stable streams. You’ll work with older streams that have their own specifics, requiring troubleshooting of potential problems. Some of the work may be automated, so previous experience and willingness to work with automation tooling could save you time.

• Work on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) updates and be responsible for the updates in the stable streams
• Backport selected security and other bug fixes into the stable release streams and help with tracking of upstream patches for backport
  Configure or backport tests, set up test environment, run tests, and verify fixes 
• Help with the development of the tests and test framework
• Help with development and integration efforts of the test environment
• Troubleshoot any potential issues, collaborate with the engineering team on resolving them
• Collaborate with various teams (product engineering, quality engineering, program management, release engineering) in order to deliver updates in a timely manner and appropriate quality
• Participate in product engineering team meetings
• Mentor junior team members, share best practices

• 2+ years of experience in Linux software engineering or quality engineering (QE)
• Bachelor's or higher degree in computer science or a related engineering field, or relevant professional experience
• Practical experience as a Linux administrator, power user or developer with any distribution
• Familiarity with scripting using Bash or Python, or both
• Good C/C++ skills
• Experience working with Git (cherry-picking, merging, rebasing, etc. )
• Basic debugging (e.g., GDB, strace), troubleshooting, and analytical skills
• Ability to collaborate and communicate effectively with a global team
• Multi-tasking skills and ability to work under tight deadlines
• Solid written and verbal communication skills in English

Experience with the following are considered a plus:

• Collaborating in open source software communities
• Cloud computing, e.g., AWS, Microsoft Azure, EC2
• A CVE system and its related solution delivery processes
• RPM based packaging
• Using GitLab and Git in contributor and maintainer role

One of the following areas:

• SQL databases,
• networking, or security

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