Software Engineer - Display i18n (Linux, C/C++, Mandarin)

The Red Hat Display (desktop) group is hiring a software engineer. In this role you will be working in the Internationalization (i18n) Engineering team on Linux Desktop development, focusing on input methods (ibus) for Chinese & East Asian languages and other i18n, font and desktop-related projects, contributing to their upstreams, and maintaining various i18n downstream packages in Fedora and RHEL.

The Software Engineer independently designs, develops, and is accountable for the quality of software features of moderate complexity, keeping the end-users' needs in mind. This position exists to be an autonomous contributor who takes ownership of delivering direct, reliable value to our customers. The primary function is to translate user requirements into robust, high-quality, and maintainable code that creates a seamless customer experience and meets our high bar for software quality.

What you will do

Technical Impact: Designs and develops software solutions by contributing to a subsystem or components.

Ensure Software Quality and Reliability: Contributes to testing and debugging of software.

Internal and External Collaboration: Active contributor to internal tooling or upstream projects, participating in discussions.

Mentor and Develop Engineering Talent: Seeks and adopts constructive feedback from more senior associates, managers, and other leaders.

Own and Deliver Business Impact: Takes ownership of assigned tasks and delivers on time, providing value to the end user.

Apply and Advance Technical Practices: Learns and applies team's best practices.

Leverage and Utilize AI Tools: Follows established procedures to utilize AI tools and agents for completing routine development tasks and improving personal productivity.

SDLC: Follows the team's established SDLC for all assigned tasks, focusing on learning and correctly applying each stage of the process.

What you will bring:

Highly fluent in written and spoken Mandarin

Excel in C and C++ programming, including debugging threaded applications

Good experience in modern software development on Linux

Good spoken and written English communication skills.

Ideally also:

Experience in contributing to the open source community projects (such as GNOME or ibus)

Experience in developing input method engines

A good understanding of charsets and encodings, both Unicode and regional

Passionate about software internationalization for human languages, including also text rendering

Experience with real projects using Python, SQL, Rust, and AI.

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