Software Engineer

Your role and responsibilities

• Own the day-to-day operations of the images.paas Quay registry, ensuring it meets its Service Level Objectives (SLOs)

• Maintain and extend the images-paas-operator (Go / operator-sdk) that automates Quay organization, repository, and access management

• Manage the GitOps pipeline that controls registry configuration, permissions, and organizational structure

• Monitor service health, respond to incidents, and drive blameless postmortems to continuously improve reliability

• Reduce operational toil through automation - if you do something twice, automate it the third time

• Manage LDAP-based user authentication and access provisioning

• Participate in an on-call rotation within a geographically distributed team for production support

• Collaborate with internal stakeholders (platform teams, CI/CD teams, security) to support their registry needs

• Provide feedback and bug reports to Red Hat Quay product engineering based on real-world operational experience

• Contribute to capacity planning, disaster recovery procedures, and security compliance (SIA/PIA)

Required education

Bachelor''s Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• 3+ years of experience operating production services on Kubernetes / OpenShift

• 2+ years of programming experience in Go

• Hands-on experience with container registries (Quay, Harbor, Docker Registry, or similar)

• Experience with GitOps workflows for managing infrastructure or application configuration

• Solid understanding of Linux systems administration (RHEL/Fedora preferred)

• Familiarity with AWS cloud infrastructure

• Understanding of standard networking (TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/TLS) and authentication protocols (LDAP)

• Comfort with incident response, on-call responsibilities, and working across time zones

• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision while keeping the team informed

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Experience with the Operator SDK or building Kubernetes operators

• Experience administering Red Hat Quay specifically

• Familiarity with container image security scanning and vulnerability management

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and image build automation

• Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, alerting)

• Knowledge of SRE principles - SLOs, error budgets, toil measurement

• Experience with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

• Contributions to open source projects

Years of Experience: : - 3- 6