Contribute to the vision and innovation of new Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) product maintenance offerings, aiming to make Red Hat a global leader in long-term product experience
Lead daily activities of product maintenance engineering teams, serving as a regional and global expert on pressing Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) product issues
Resolve and proactively address critical issues that have an impact on long-term regional or global business success of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Work within the complete Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) solutions portfolio and be responsible for the delivery of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) updates to the maintenance streams
Lead developer and QE counterparts, product and project manager, and release engineering teams across the globe to ensure the development and delivery of fixes meet the schedule requirements and high quality standards expected and required by Red Hat customers
Diagnose the root cause of failures
Backport CVE and bug fixes to stable release streams
Develop, maintain, and monitor tests and onboard automated tests into a continuous integration workflow as much as possible
Develop onboarding and training for new team members
Mentor junior team members
What will you bring
Outstanding debugging, troubleshooting, and analytical skills
2+ years of experience in software engineering and/or quality engineering
Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related engineering field, or relevant professional experience
Advanced level C coding skills
Experience handling revisions and conflicts on Git.
Familiar with backporting patches, including straight merges and cherry picks, functionally equivalent backports, dependency resolution, etc.
Familiar with git concepts such as the merge request workflow, etc.
Familiar with kernel internals, including but not limited to
Maintainership workflow
Structure and its subsystems
Familiar with userspace low-level internals, including but not limited to
Processes
Kernel interface (syscalls, ioctl, etc.)
Experience with building code from source and debug compilation failures, mainly with C language code
Knowledgeable with low-level debugging tools like GDB and strace
Familiar with automated testing environments
Jenkins jobs, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions.
Good interpersonal, problem solving, critical thinking, and communication skills
Experience with the following are considered a plus
Open Source contributions to upstream linux projects or interaction with the open source community.
Understanding of any kernel subsystems such as networking, device drivers, etc.
Familiar with advanced debugging tools like perf, eBPF, system tap and ftrace.
Experience with unit and integration testing on any language or framework.
Experience debugging test failures and filing issues.
Experience with scripting languages like Python and/or Bash.
