The Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability Engineering team is looking for a Principal Software Engineer with a solid technical background to join us in Brno Office, Czech Republic. In this role, you will work on clustering and high availability offerings. The Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) High Availability offering provides high availability service through the integration of several open source projects like Pacemaker. You will be an essential part of a small development team working on software used by top corporate, educational, and governmental organizations across the world to support mission-critical applications. You'll primarily focus on systems and low-level application programming, as well as automated testing. You will also work on frameworks for providing service availability within the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) High Availability offering.

What you will do

Develop and maintain Pacemaker and other core high availability componentsWrite tests, help manage releases, and build packagesReview patches, features, bugfixes written by other engineersTriage, debug, and fix customer and community reported issues and bugsWork with other product teams to resolve high availability issues in other offerings and areas at Red HatParticipate in external community and mailing lists, providing assistance and identifying and resolving defectsOpportunity to work with the Engineering and Product Management teams on new features for the next generation of clustering and high availability offerings

What you will bring

In depth understanding of C and systems programming.Significant Linux software development experience.Excellent system understanding and troubleshooting capabilities.Understanding of how Open Source and Free Software communities work.Ability to quickly learn and use new tools and technologies and proactively work as a part of a wider team.Ability to work as part of a distributed team.Experience with version control systems, preferably GitKnowledge of the Python and Bash scripting is welcomeKnowledge of XML and libxml2Experience with existing high availability offerings and components (Linux-based or otherwise) and high availability conceptsExperience with RHEL clustering and/or pacemaker/corosync is a plusKnowledge of unit testing frameworks and automated testing methodologies is a plus, networking programming tooFamiliarity with continuous integration (CI) systems is a plus

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