Senior Software Engineer

The Red Hat Performance and Scale Engineering team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join us in the RHEL / RHEL AI Core Platforms team.

As part of this team, you will be responsible for comprehensive performance assessments of both RHEL and RHEL AI platforms.

RHEL AI is a Generative AI focussed platform built on top of RHEL and leverages the instructlab open source project.

What you will do

Deep understanding of Linux and the subsystems that make the operating system function and perform.

Formulate test plans, and execute performance and scalability benchmarks against various components of the RHEL and RHEL AI platform to drive improvements, detect regressions etc through data analysis and visualization

Develop tools and automation to aid the performance benchmarking work

Collaborate with other teams to resolve performance issues

Triage, debug, and solve customer cases related to RHEL performance

Submit performance benchmarking results to industry consortia

Publish results, conclusions, recommendations and best practices via internal test reports, presentations, external blogs and official documentation to support our partners and customers.

Participate in internal and external conferences about your work and results

What you will bring

As part of the team you will conduct performance testing on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) kernels, KVM virtualized environments that feed into OpenStack and OpenShift Virtualization is a plus.

Ability to work Hybrid in Lowell MA, Boston MA or Raleigh NC

Experience in running performance tests, data capture, data analysis, and data visualization

Experience with systems performance engineering and metrics collection tools such as iostat, vmstat, sar, perf, pcp, prometheus, etc

Excellent written and verbal language skills in English

The following is considered a plus

Experience with linux container technologies

Experience working with AI hardware accelerators such as GPUs

The salary range for this position is $127,890.00 - $211,180.00. Actual offer will be based on your qualifications.

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Benefits

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage

Flexible Spending Account - healthcare and dependent care

Health Savings Account - high deductible medical plan

Retirement 401(k) with employer match

Paid time off and holidays

Paid parental leave plans for all new parents

Leave benefits including disability, paid family medical leave, and paid military leave

Additional benefits including employee stock purchase plan, family planning reimbursement, tuition reimbursement, transportation expense account, employee assistance program, and more!

Note : These benefits are only applicable to full time, permanent associates at Red Hat located in the United States.

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