At Red Hat, we connect an innovative community of customers, partners, and contributors to deliver an open source stack of trusted, high-performing solutions. We offer cloud, Linux, middleware, storage, and virtualization technologies, together with award-winning global customer support, consulting, and implementation services. Red Hat is a rapidly growing company supporting more than 90% of Fortune 500 companies.

Become part of a fast­-paced company that is changing the way software is developed, sold, and supported. The Red Hat Customer Experience and Engagement (CEE) team is looking for a Senior Software Maintenance Engineer to join us in Spain. In this role, you will provide an important level of technical assistance to ensure that our highly­ valued customers get the most out of our solutions. This position extends well beyond solution support as you will take on the role of a trusted partner to our enterprise customers by offering developer-­to-­developer assistance for JBoss open­ source middleware software. You will work closely with junior and senior engineers and developers to write new code, fix and improve code, and provide highly technical solutions to support requests. Additionally, you will write patches, provide JBoss updates, and contribute ideas through participation in an open and collaborative team environment. Successful applicants must reside in a country where Red Hat is registered to do business.

• Provide a high, detailed level of technical assistance to ensure that our customers get the most out of our Red Hat JBoss Middleware solutions
• Engage and collaborate with open source developers around the world
• Offer developer-­to-­developer assistance for the Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Middleware suite
• Act as the technical point of contact for a technology of your choosing within the Red Hat JBoss Middleware portfolio
• Develop patches and feature requests to provide upstream to the community and downstream to customers
• Advise customers on JEE architectural design decisions
• Work with other open source projects to help customers integrate Red Hat solutions with their applications

• 10+ years of professional J2EE and JEE platform experience
• Deep experience with one or several JEE technologies like JMS, Web Services, SOAP, REST, Servlets, JSP, JDBC, Hibernate, Struts, teiid, metametrix, arquillian, drools, Tomcat or Datasources, FuseSource, Camel, OSGI, AMQ, Karaf, Fabric, Switchyard, Version Control, Build Tool, OpenShift by Red Hat, Docker
• Practical experience with application server technologies, including Red Hat JBoss Middleware, IBM WebSphere, and Oracle WebLogic
• Experience with databases and SQL
• Solid troubleshooting and debugging skills, with a passion for problem solving and investigation
• Ability and willingness to learn new open source middleware technologies
• Excellent English written and verbal communications skills
• Ability to communicate with customers, third-party vendors, and Red Hat associates
• Bachelor's degree in engineering or computer science is preferred; equivalent experience within the enterprise IT sector will also be considered
• Solid understanding of Java APIs and popular Java frameworks is a plus