Associate Software Engineer - Red Hat Satellite

The Red Hat Satellite Engineering team is seeking an enthusiastic, highly motivated, and versatile Associate Software Engineer to join our dynamic team in Raleigh, NC.

This role is an excellent opportunity for a developing professional to gain experience across both development and quality engineering functions, contributing to the robustness, reliability, and performance of our solutions. The ideal candidate will possess a foundational technical background in Linux environments, proficiency in full-stack software development in languages and frameworks such as Python, Pytest, Ruby on Rails, React (JavaScript), and a basic understanding of networking and system administration.

This role will involve contributing to a system management solution called Red Hat Satellite which is a powerful systems management platform designed to efficiently deploy, configure, and maintain large-scale Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) infrastructure. It acts as a centralized control plane for content management (patches and security updates), life cycle management (controlled rollout of changes), provisioning, and subscription tracking.

The Red Hat Satellite Engineering team is seeking an enthusiastic, highly motivated, and versatile Associate Software Engineer to join our dynamic team in Raleigh, NC. This role is an excellent opportunity for a developing professional to gain experience across both development and quality engineering functions, contributing to the robustness, reliability, and performance of our solutions. The ideal candidate will possess a foundational technical background in Linux environments, proficiency in full-stack software development in languages and frameworks such as Python, Pytest, Ruby on Rails, React (JavaScript), and a basic understanding of networking and system administration.

This role will involve contributing to a system management solution called Red Hat Satellite which is a powerful systems management platform designed to efficiently deploy, configure, and maintain large-scale Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) infrastructure. It acts as a centralized control plane for content management (patches and security updates), life cycle management (controlled rollout of changes), provisioning, and subscription tracking.

Red Hat Satellite is fundamentally built upon a robust foundation of open-source projects, primarily and its plugin . Foreman provides the core capabilities for host provisioning and configuration management, acting as the main interface for system administration. Katello integrates Pulp (for content storage and distribution) and Candlepin (for subscription tracking) to manage all Red Hat content, repositories, and software entitlements and their content life cycle support. Our test automation is written in Python (), mostly with Pytest.

Our team is global, and our stack is open-sourced, including technologies like Python, Pytest, Ruby on Rails, React and PostgreSQL. Our team proactively and regularly utilizes AI-assisted development tools and experiments with emerging AI technologies to identify and incorporate new AI capabilities into our existing software development workflows and tooling. You'll have the opportunity to work on real-life issues of an on-premise enterprise product with thousands of existing users.

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About Red Hat

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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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