Principal Software Engineer

About the Job

The Red Hat Ecosystem Engineering team is looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join us in Pune, India. In this role, you will work as a member of a highly dynamic and fast-paced team. As part of the product development team, you’ll need to be creative, motivated, and proficient in building middleware integrations and APIs for partner facing systems. You will work closely with different teams, stakeholders, product owners, program managers to design, document, and develop solutions. While we are looking for focused skills and experience, primarily advanced development expertise in Java and solid fundamentals in cloud and deployment will be beneficial to the team.

What will you do

• Design, document, develop, test, and maintain integrations and APIs in Java and frameworks like Apache Camel, Spring Boot, Quarkus

• Collaborate with product management, different teams, and engineering managers to analyze and clarify business requirements so as to implement data models and business logic for applications.

• Work with IT program managers (Security and compliance) to maintain application development standards and compliance.

• Communicate effectively to stakeholders and project team members to ensure proper visibility of development efforts

• Review code merge requests from other team members for new features

• Write unit and integration tests and work with quality engineers to ensure application quality and maintainability

• Plan and work unsupervised on complex projects.

• Build and deploy applications to Red Hat OpenShift Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)

• Ensure non-functional requirements including security, resiliency, and maintainability are met according to defined standards

What will you bring

• 5-7 years of professional Java development experience

• Expertise with springboot/quarkus.

• Understanding of web application infrastructure and fundamentals like REST and HTTP

• Experience with continuous delivery (CD) like build and deploy pipelines like Jenkins, Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) like OpenShift/Kubernetes

• Software development life cycle skills; ability to use standard tools for development on Linux like Maven, and Docker

• Knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases

• Distributed source control experience like Git, including continuous integration (CI) workflows

• Excellent communication skills, solid written and verbal communication skills in English; ability to communicate effectively in a global team

• Ability to work unsupervised in a fast-paced environment, willing to learn on your own

The following are considered a plus:

• Knowledge of FTP and AWS.

• Knowledge of AI code generators - claude, cursor etc

• Understanding of IT Security controls and best practices.

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