My day job, as you probably know, is at Red Hat, where I manage the Fedora Engineering team. Our team provides engineering and design services for the Fedora Project, a collaborative community project which is the upstream source for a number of influential products. Not the least of these is Red Hat Enterprise Linux, of course.
We now have a job opening for a senior engineer in the USA to be part of our team.
About the job
Collaborating with the rest of the team, the community at large, and your colleagues in Red Hat, you’ll:
- Build tools and web services that will in turn build a more modular next-generation Fedora
- Do full-stack development, with a hand in everything from working with designers, to architecting and writing code, to deploying in test/stage/production, to maintenance and enhancement
- Automate, automate, automate all the things
- Co-create and develop our next community engagement system, Fedora Hubs
- Stay tuned into exciting work going on throughout Red Hat related to platform and other technologies
- As with all Fedora Engineering jobs, communicate openly and continually with the whole community, and build community around everything you do using open source best practices
About the Fedora Engineering team
Our team uses a lot of Python (flask and sqlalchemy currently rank highly), and we’ll be expanding outward in the future where it makes sense. We create code upstream that is widely consumable beyond just Fedora, and we deploy our work on both Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora.
We do that work openly: collaboration via git repositories, rapid and constant communication via IRC, frequent discussion through our mailing lists, and gathering and building community around our work. Simply put, we love open.
Who we’re looking for
The right candidate is a team player, positive and constructive, fully engaged and passionately committed to delivering results with their colleagues, wherever they might be. This is a senior position, so we’re looking for someone who’s a proactive, detail-oriented self-starter, and has the ability to lead from the side on a few projects. We want you to be really good at Python and being Pythonic, and hopefully have some similar high-level language experience like Ruby or Java where you can help us grow, too.
Not interested in working in a Red Hat office? No sweat. We’re a distributed team, and this job is perfect for an experienced remote candidate. Remote doesn’t mean aloof, though. You need to be somewhat of a people person to crush this job, because good open source means collaboration. We meet up at least once a year as a team for Flock, but we work together constantly online.
I would be remiss in not pointing out this position back-fills some mighty big shoes. That’s why I’ve outlined some ideas for who we’re looking for in this post. That being said, you’ll also be working for a manager who’s a super guy. Just check the sidebar of this blog for proof. In all seriousness though, we all care about our teammates’ success, so you’re never on your own when you need a hand.
And don’t forget, Red Hat is consistently rated one of the best and most innovative places to work.
Enough already, where do I apply?
Does this job sound interesting to you? Make sure you read the full description of the job, and then apply online.
I am disappoint that the actual job description does not say automate all the things. But, hey – writing Ansible playbooks to automate deployments sounds pretty sweet 🙂
Yup, Ansible is a huge linchpin in our infrastructure.
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