3 Hiring: Senior Software Engineer - Golang Remote

careers-redhat.icims.com posted by norbertfuhs 2408 days ago  

Job description

Company description

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Job summary

The Red Hat Platform Tools team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer with substantial experience in the Go programming language and its related tools. In this role, you will help develop, maintain, package, and support our core tools and contribute to related community projects. You'll join a fast-paced, highly experienced, and exciting engineering team distributed across the globe and will participate in a vibrant open source culture. You'll help promote quality and innovation in the Red Hat Platform Tools team and within the Go community. As a part of the Platform Tools team, you will be responsible for the core compilers, libraries, and related tools used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Fedora releases, as well as the C and C++ toolchains at the core of Red Hat Developer Toolset. This role can be based anywhere around the world; time zones overlapping with Eastern Standard Time are preferred.

Primary job responsibilities

  • Work with the Red Hat Platform Tools team to develop world-class tools through practical development and collaboration with the open source Go community
  • Interact with internal and external developers and communities
  • Work with the toolchain team and other Red Hat engineering teams as well as the community on senior-level feature contributions to Golang, related compiler bug fixes, efficiency improvements, and optimizations, and some light packaging work where needed
  • Accept, analyze, and respond to bug reports against tools packages in your area of responsibility
  • Plan and track development and periodically report progress to team management

Required skills

The following requirements are a plus:


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