Python Kubernetes Software Engineer Data Jobs in Raleigh, NC

About the Job

The RedHat Performance and Scale Organization is seeking a software engineer to join our OpenShift Platform Performance and Scale Team. This role involves testing, measuring, and analyzing the performance and scalability of RedHat OpenShift, the leading application modernization platform built on Kubernetes. You will support the evolution of RedHat OpenShift’s managed and layered offerings and serve a wide variety of customer use cases.

RedHat OpenShift’s managed and layered offerings include managed OpenShift services such as ROSA, ARO, and OSD; layered products like the enterprise container registry and image management through Quay, AI‑assisted development via OpenShift Lightspeed; multi‑cluster and hybrid cloud management through ACM; and the full RedHat OpenShift AI platform, among others. Ensuring these products perform reliably at scale is critical to customer trust and RedHat’s ability to compete in an increasingly demanding market.

Your focus will be on performance and scalability testing across this portfolio, validating that each product meets the real‑world demands of enterprise customers from initial deployment through production scale. You will leverage your knowledge of distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and layered platform architectures to theorize bottlenecks, devise test plans, execute workloads, collect and analyze data, and communicate findings.

The engineer will work cross‑functionally with product management, engineering leadership, development teams, and quality engineers to measure performance, clearly articulate findings, and address bottlenecks. Time will also be spent collaborating with software engineering teams on bug fixes, code optimization, resource usage reduction, and developing open‑source tools to improve the reliability and repeatability of tests. This is a unique opportunity to work at the intersection of cutting‑edge hardware and software.

The broader mission of the Performance and Scale organization is to establish performance and scale leadership across the RedHat product and cloud services portfolio. The team collaborates with engineering, product management, product marketing, customer support, and RedHat’s hardware and software ecosystem partners.

RedHat will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position. Therefore, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.

What You Will Do

• Work closely with management, product owners, developers, and quality engineers to understand product requirements and build suitable test plans to verify the performance and scale of OpenShift Managed Services, Layered Products, AI Platforms, etc.
• Develop sophisticated tests that simulate user workloads through comprehensive end‑to‑end automation, leveraging custom‑built and state‑of‑the‑art open‑source tools and frameworks.
• Deep‑dive into performance issues with the intent of discovering root causes in complex distributed systems.
• Design and develop monitoring and reporting tools for performance and scale tests and analysis.
• Document research and results clearly and concisely, and communicate findings both internally and externally.
• Engage in upstream communities to help test performance and scale early and influence design and development decisions.
• Triage, debug, and root‑cause customer issues related to OpenShift performance and scale.
• Present work and findings at internal and external conferences.

What You Will Bring

• Master’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field with 1+ years of relevant experience, or a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field with 3+ years of relevant experience.
• Demonstrable experience, understanding, and passion for performance engineering.
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes or OpenShift.
• Strong programming, debugging, and profiling skills in Python and/or Golang.
• Hands‑on experience with performance measurement, analysis, and optimization.
• Experience with distributed systems.
• Strong Linux system administration and system engineering skills.
• Solid scripting skills, particularly with Bash, Python, or Ansible.
• Experience working with public clouds such as AWS, Azure, GCP, or IBM Cloud, as well as bare‑metal environments.
• Experience analyzing and interpreting large volumes of test results and succinctly communicating findings through easy‑to‑understand graphs and charts.
• Experience with collaborative software development methodologies, tools, and version control.
• Knowledge of statistical analysis and experimental design techniques.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work independently and proactively seek collaboration.
• Ability to identify opportunities for AI integration within the software development lifecycle and drive continuous improvement.
• Proactivity in utilizing AI‑assisted tools such as code generation, auto‑completion, and intelligent suggestions to accelerate development cycles, enhance code quality, and support test design, automation, and peer review.
• Experience with container technologies such as Podman or Docker, and familiarity with building container images.
• Experience with system performance engineering and metrics collection tools like iostat, vmstat, sar, perf, pprof.
• Experience with monitoring and dashboarding tools such as Prometheus and Grafana.
• Networking experience or certifications.
• A demonstrated history of contributing to open‑source projects.
• Presentation skills and public speaking abilities for conferences and demonstrations.
• A passion for investigating and troubleshooting system issues and a desire for continuous learning and improvement.

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 RedHat located in the United States.

Equal Opportunity Policy (EEO)

RedHat is proud to be an equal‑opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer. We review applications for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, veteran status, genetic information, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, or any other basis prohibited by law. RedHat does not seek or accept unsolicited resumes or CVs from recruitment agencies. We are not responsible for, and will not pay, any fees, commissions, or other payments related to unsolicited resumes or CVs unless required in a written contract between RedHat and the recruitment agency or party requesting payment of a fee. RedHat supports individuals with disabilities and provides reasonable accommodations to job applicants. If you need assistance completing our online job application, email application-assistance@redhat.com.