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About the Job

The Red Hat Performance and Scale Engineering team is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Konflux performance and scale org. Konflux is an open source, cloud native software factory focused on software supply chain security. The team responsible for the Konflux build and CI/CD system is looking for a highly motivated Senior Software Engineer to define and drive our performance, scale, and reliability strategy. Konflux is critical to Red Hat's development pipeline, and ensuring it meets scalability, reliability, and efficiency expectations is paramount. This role involves identifying potential bottlenecks before they impact production, defining comprehensive performance testing strategies, and helping the Konflux organization prioritize performance-related investments effectively. You'll bridge the gap between performance theory and practical application, ensuring we focus on efforts with positive ROI.

In this role, you will work in an environment where diverse perspectives are invited, the best ideas are valued, and people feel empowered to contribute. Freedom and courage are two of our core values, which is why you’ll need to be comfortable taking risks and exploring the unknown. But being a Red Hatter isn't just about being brave, it's also about demonstrating commitment and sticking to it.

We can offer you professional development, social engagement and networking, performance and development, and meaningful work throughout your tenure at Red Hat.

What you will do

+ Define and Document: Lead the creation and refinement of the overarching Konflux Performance Strategy, ensuring alignment with user expectations for stability, throughput, and speed.

+ Analyze & Identify Gaps: Deeply analyze Konflux user performance requirements and identify gaps in the current performance testing approach (covering areas like smoke, load, stress, scalability, endurance, resilience, network, cross-architecture, and component-level testing).

+ Evaluate & Recommend: Assess the importance and ROI of different performance testing strategies and tools (e.g., k6, Locust, chaos engineering frameworks) for the Konflux ecosystem.

+ Define Standards: Drive the definition of performance baselines, Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) for Konflux, collaborating with stakeholders to ensure they meet business needs.

+ Collaborate & Influence: Work closely with Konflux engineering, QE, SRE, and product management teams to embed performance considerations throughout the development lifecycle and gain buy-in for strategic initiatives.

+ Monitoring & Observability Strategy: Define requirements for effective performance monitoring, observability (metrics, tracing, logging using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, etc.), and automated alerting to detect regressions and anomalies.

+ Bottleneck Analysis: Proactively analyze potential performance bottlenecks across the Konflux stack (including dependencies like etcd, networking, storage) and recommend optimization strategies.

+ Prioritize & Plan: Translate strategic goals and identified gaps into actionable tasks (e.g., Jira epics/stories) and work with teams on prioritization for capacity planning, cost optimization, and testing implementation.

+ Communicate Effectively: Clearly articulate performance findings, strategy documents, and recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

What you will bring

+ Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or equivalent experience.

+ 5+ years of experience in software engineering, performance engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).

+ Proven experience designing, implementing, and documenting performance testing strategies and frameworks for complex, distributed systems.

+ Solid understanding of Linux/UNIX operating systems.

+ Significant experience with container orchestration software (Kubernetes, OpenShift).

+ Strong analytical skills with experience in test data visualization, analysis, and identifying performance bottlenecks.

+ Proficiency in programming/scripting languages (e.g., Python, Go) for automation, tooling, and data analysis.

+ Experience with performance testing tools (e.g., k6, Locust, JMeter) and methodologies (load, stress, endurance, etc.).

+ Familiarity with observability stacks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, OpenTelemetry, ELK, Splunk).

+ Understanding of cloud-native architectures, microservices, CI/CD pipelines, and related challenges.

+ Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across globally distributed teams.

+ Demonstrated ability to take initiative, work independently, and drive projects to completion.

The following are considered a plus

+ Knowledge of Red Hat Konflux, Tekton, or similar CI/CD / build systems.

+ Experience with chaos engineering principles and tools

+ Understanding of database performance tuning (e.g., PostgreSQL) and caching mechanisms (e.g., Redis).

+ Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible).

+ Familiarity with cloud provider environments (AWS, Azure, GCP, IBM Cloud).

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The salary range for this position is $116,270.00 - $191,840.00. Actual offer will be based on your qualifications.

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About Red Hat

Red Hat (https://www.redhat.com/) is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source (https://www.redhat.com/en/about/open-source) software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver high-performing Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Spread across 40+ countries, our associates work flexibly across work environments, from in-office, to office-flex, to fully remote, depending on the requirements of their role. Red Hatters are encouraged to bring their best ideas, no matter their title or tenure. We're a leader in open source because of our open and inclusive environment. We hire creative, passionate people ready to contribute their ideas, help solve complex problems, and make an impact.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage

• Flexible Spending Account - healthcare and dependent care

• Health Savings Account - high deductible medical plan

• Retirement 401(k) with employer match

• Paid time off and holidays

• Paid parental leave plans for all new parents

• Leave benefits including disability, paid family medical leave, and paid military leave

• Additional benefits including employee stock purchase plan, family planning reimbursement, tuition reimbursement, transportation expense account, employee assistance program, and more!

**Note:** These benefits are only applicable to full time, permanent associates at Red Hat located in the United States.

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