Are you ready to join a game-changing open-source AI platform that harnesses the power of hybrid cloud to drive innovation?

The Red Hat OpenShift AI team is looking for a Principal Software Engineer with Kubernetes and MLOps (Machine Learning Operations) experience to join our rapidly growing engineering team. Our focus is to create a platform, partner ecosystem, and community by which enterprise customers can solve problems to accelerate business success using AI. This is a very exciting opportunity to build and impact the next generation of MLOps platforms, participate in open source communities, contribute to the development of the OpenShift AI product, and be at the forefront of the exciting evolution of AI. You’ll join an ecosystem that fosters continuous learning, career growth, and professional development. 

You will be contributing as a core developer for the Model Training team, the core Model training tools (Ray, Kubeflow, Pytorch etc) for OpenShift AI. You will work as part of an evolving development team to rapidly design, secure, build, test, and release new capabilities. This role is for an individual contributor who also leads other junior engineers in the team and collaborates closely with other developers and cross-functional teams. You will have the opportunity to actively participate in both our downstream efforts as well as the upstream projects. You should have a passion for working in open-source communities and for developing solutions that integrate Red Hat, open-source, and partner technologies into a cohesive platform.

What you will doCoordinates with architects on future architectural direction to both inform and consumeStrives to be the translation layer between Architects, PM, and the teamsParticipates in early feature kickoff and refinement to help PM make priority trade-off decisionsWorks with teams to understand product requirements at a level of detail that enables successful executionServes as a subject matter expert (SME) internally to the team and externally to the community/partners/customersIdentifies and resolves complex technical issues, unblocking the team when necessaryStays  up-to-date on emerging technologies and industry trends relevant to their domain, and creating awareness about them across the organization (PMs, EMs, Architects, Engineers)Delegates responsibility for component-focused work to team members in order to scale effectivelyStays close to the code, reviewing and potentially contributing PRs for mission critical efforts

What you will bring

Experience developing applications in Go

Experience developing applications in Python

Experience developing applications in Kubernetes, OpenShift, or other cloud-native technologies

Ability to quickly learn and guide others on using new tools and technologies

Proven ability to innovate and a passion for staying at the forefront of technology.

Experience with distributed systems (especially those that run on Kubernetes) and troubleshooting them

Autonomous work ethic, thriving in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

Experience providing technical leadership in a global team and delivering on a vision

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

The following will be considered a plus:

While a Bachelor’s degree or higher in computer science or a related discipline is valued, we prioritize practical experience and technical prowess

Understanding of how Open Source communities work

Experience with development for public cloud services (AWS, GCE, Azure)

Experience working with or deploying MLOps platforms

Experience with AI/ML Model training and tuning

Experience writing Kubernetes/OpenShift controllers and operators

Experience writing DSLs in Python or other languages

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