Principal Software Engineer

Job Title: Principal Software Engineer-Workload Orchestration
Job Type: Permanent
Job Location: Waterford, Ireland

Company Overview:
Our client is the world's leading provider of enterprise open-source software solutions, utilizing a community-driven approach to deliver high-performing Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. With a presence in over 40 countries, our associates have the flexibility to choose a work environment that best suits their needs, ranging from in-office to fully remote options.

The Role:
In this role, you will be contributing as a core engineer for the Workload Orchestration team. In this role, you will be working on solutions that enhance Kubernetes-native workload orchestration, focusing on AI/ ML jobs, enabling enterprise customers to scale and manage their AI-driven applications across the hybrid cloud. You will also help build SDKs which help simplify the integration of tools like Ray, Kueue, and Kubeflow via IDEs such as Jupyter Notebooks, empowering data scientists and ML engineers to streamline complex workflows with ease.

Job Responsibilities:

• Architect and lead implementation of new features and solutions for OpenShift AI.
• Innovate and collaborate closely with upstream communities contributing meaningfully to the open-source efforts around Kubernetes workload orchestration.
• Provide technical vision and leadership on critical and high-impact projects.
• Ensure non-functional requirements including security, resiliency, and maintainability are met.
• Write high-quality, including unit and integration tests, and collaborate with quality engineers to ensure top-tier product quality.
• Use CI/CD best practices to deliver solutions as productization efforts.
• Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement by sharing recommendations and technical knowledge with team members.
• Collaborate with product management, other engineering and cross-functional teams to analyze and clarify business requirements.
• Communicate effectively to stakeholders and team members to ensure proper visibility of development efforts.
• Give thoughtful and prompt code reviews.
• Represent OpenShift AII in external engagements including industry events, customer meetings, and open-source communities.
• Mentor, influence, and coach a distributed team of engineers.

Requirements:

• Advanced experience developing applications in Go or Python, or other language.
• Advanced experience in Kubernetes, OpenShift or other cloud-native technologies.
• Ability to quickly learn and guide others on using new tools and technologies.
• Experience with source code management tools such as Git.
• Proven ability to innovate and a passion for staying at the forefront of technology.
• Excellent distributed system understanding and troubleshooting capabilities,
• Autonomous work ethic, thriving in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
• Technical leadership acumen in a global team environment and executing on team vision
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Qualification:

• 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 and Free Software communities' work.
• Experience with development for public cloud services (AWS, GCE, Azure).
• Experience working with or deploying MLOps platforms.
• Familiarity with data science workflows and machine learning pipelines, batch processing and/ or gang-scheduling.
• Experience writing Kubernetes/OpenShift controllers and operators.
• Experience writing user-facing SDK packages in Python or similar.

If you are interested in this role or would like to discuss it further, please contact Nidhi at +353 1 645 5244 or email [email protected].