Senior Software Engineer

Description

This is a remote role open to candidates located anywhere in the U.S.

You will build new features and capabilities for the company's OCI container registries, including its quay.io service and the company's site domain.

The team works AI-first, using coding assistants such as Claude Code and Cursor to ship scalable registry solutions quickly.

Responsibilities

• Run the globally distributed infrastructure behind the registry on OpenShift Service on AWS, using services such as EC2, Aurora Postgres, RDS Proxy, Kinesis, Lambda, S3, and CloudFront.
• Apply your skills in Kubernetes, OpenShift, Linux, Go, Python, JavaScript, React, Git, Redis, SQL, and OCI to operate and expand the service.
• Partner with Product Management on business and roadmap decisions for the registry.
• Work with other internal teams to make the registry feel consistent with the rest of the company's product line.
• Take part in a weekly on-call rotation and help improve it.
• Mentor other registry engineers and help the team work efficiently.
• Advise on the architecture needed to scale the service for future growth.
• Lead incident post-mortems, set up alerts, and cut the time needed to recover from outages.
• Maintain documentation for the registry and its domain, and support peers and customers with it.

Requirements

• Hold a bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a related field, or a foreign equivalent, plus four years of experience in the role or a related one.
• Have four years of hands-on experience with Python, JavaScript, React, Git, and Linux.
• Have four years of experience with SQL databases, including Postgres and Redis, and with ORMs.
• Have four years of experience with Kubernetes and OpenShift, including writing, deploying, and managing Operators in Go.
• Have four years of experience building SaaS products and supporting web applications on AWS, including on-call work.
• Have four years of experience with OCI and container registries, and with Docker or Podman.
• Have four years of experience with CI/CD pipelines and software releases.
• Have one year of experience with agentic coding using Claude Code, Cursor, or both.

Conditions

Pay depends on job location, experience, skills and training, external market value, and internal pay equity. The base salary is $142,370 to $234,770 per year, and the final offer depends on your qualifications.

For Remote-US roles, the salary range may vary by location, but it will match the duties and your relevant experience.

The company builds enterprise open source software, including Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. It operates in more than 40 countries, and its teams work in offices, flexible hybrid setups, or fully remote.

The company welcomes applicants from all backgrounds and works to give every person equal opportunity.

Benefits

• May be eligible for a bonus, commission, and/or equity, on top of base salary.