Senior Software Engineer

*Telecommuting permitted: work may be performed within normal commuting distance from the Red Hat, LLC office in Raleigh, NC.

Lead the creation and refinement of the overarching Konflux Performance Strategy, ensuring alignment with user expectations for stability, throughput and speed. Analyze Konflux user performance requirements and identify gaps in the current performance testing approach (covering areas like smoke, load, stress, scalability, endurance, resilience, network, crossarchitecture, and component-level testing).

What You Will Do:

• Assess the importance and ROI of different performance testing strategies and tools (e.g., k6, Locust, chaos engineering frameworks) for the Konflux ecosystem.
• Drive the definition of performance baselines, Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) for Konflux, collaborating with stakeholders to ensure they meet business needs.
• Work closely with Konflux engineering, QE, SRE, and product management teams to embed performance considerations throughout the development lifecycle and gain buy-in for strategic initiatives.
• Define requirements for effective performance monitoring, observability (metrics, tracing, logging using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, etc.), and automated alerting to detect regressions and anomalies.
• Proactively analyze potential performance bottlenecks across the Konflux stack (including dependencies like etcd, networking, storage) and recommend optimization strategies.
• Translate strategic goals and identified gaps into actionable tasks (e.g., Jira epics/stories) and work with teams on prioritization for capacity planning, cost optimization, and testing implementation.
• Clearly articulate performance findings, strategy documents, and recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Software Engineering, Red Hat Linux Operating System, Work From Home, Performance Testing, Customer/Client Research, Performance Analysis, Test Strategy, Return on Investment (ROI), Ecosystems, Test Tools, * Bachelor’s degree (U.S. or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science or related field and ten (10) years of experience in the job offered or related role.

• Must have ten (10) years of experience with: Linux operating systems; and Linux Kernel and device drivers.
• Must have five (5) years of experience with: test data visualization, analysis, and identifying performance bottlenecks; observability stacks, including Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, OpenTelemetry, ELK, or Splunk; and Red Hat Konflux, Tekton, or similar CI/CD and build systems.
• Must have three (3) years of experience with: container orchestration software, including Kubernetes or OpenShift; and performance testing tools, including k6, Locust, or JMeter, and/or load, stress, and endurance methodologies.

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