The Senior Software Engineer is a technical leader who designs, implements, and ensures the quality of complex software solutions to solve our customers' most pressing challenges. This position exists to provide technical leadership that champions a customer-first mindset and a culture of quality within the engineering team. As a mentor and guide, a primary function is to establish and enforce quality standards, ensuring the team delivers scalable, high-quality systems that create measurable value for our users.
What you will do
Manage, deploy, and operate cloud and agentic solutions at scale using the principles of Site Reliability Engineering
Build and maintain Data and AI's tooling and services including MCPs, agents and other agentic workloads.
Participate in the design and development of new features end to end
Design and write automation software to provision, upgrade, monitor, and heal.
Identify points of failure and other high-risk architecture issues; propose and implement more resilient resolutions
Define Service level Objectives, implement them along with runbooks
Participate in product release cycles, deploying code to integration, staging and production environments, integrating with CI/CD tooling, monitoring and change management
Interact with automated monitoring and healing infrastructure to ensure healthy environments
Help and develop peers through knowledge sharing, mentoring and collaboration
Create and maintain standard operating procedures (SOPs) for performing maintenance tasks, applying configuration changes and remediating problems in our environment
Participate in a follow-the-sun on-call rotation
Contribute software tests and participate in peer review to increase the quality of our codebase
What you will bring
Mandatory 6+ years of software engineering experience using one or more programming languages such as Golang and/or Python. You should be able to hands-on code on a daily basis in any of the mentioned languages or equivalent.
Experience in developing, manage Infrastructure as code automation platforms - Terraform or equivalent,
Experience in reviewing peer code review.
Experience in troubleshooting as-a-service offerings (SaaS, PaaS, etc.)
Experience with any of the public cloud services.
Mandatory hands-on experience using Kubernetes/OpenShift
Mandatory Experience with developing and using monitoring and observability tools/stack.
Writing/maintaining Kubernetes Operator is great to have.
Prior experience in building ML Pipelines is a huge plus.
Knowledge or prior experience of Gitlab Pipelines, TektonCD/ArgoCD, Kubeflow is huge plus.
Huge plus if candidate has working knowledge of coding agents/harness and ADLC.
Maintaining SLOs of the responsible services.
Being customer (internal or external) focused is a must.
Good communications skills and experience working within a team and collaborating with other teams.
Ability to quickly learn new technologies.
Pay Transparency
Red Hat determines compensation based on several factors including but not limited to job location, experience, applicable skills and training, external market value, and internal pay equity. Annual salary is one component of Red Hat’s compensation package. This position may also be eligible for bonus, commission, and/or equity. For positions with Remote-US locations, the actual salary range for the position may differ based on location but will be commensurate with job duties and relevant work experience.
About Red Hat
Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver high-performing Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Spread across 40+ countries, our associates work flexibly across work environments, from in-office, to office-flex, to fully remote, depending on the requirements of their role. Red Hatters are encouraged to bring their best ideas, no matter their title or tenure. We're a leader in open source because of our open and inclusive environment. We hire creative, passionate people ready to contribute their ideas, help solve complex problems, and make an impact.
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.
Inclusion at Red Hat
Red Hat’s culture is built on the open source principles of transparency, collaboration, and inclusion, where the best ideas can come from anywhere and anyone. When this is realized, it empowers people from different backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences to come together to share ideas, challenge the status quo, and drive innovation. Our aspiration is that everyone experiences this culture with equal opportunity and access, and that all voices are not only heard but also celebrated. We hope you will join our celebration, and we welcome and encourage applicants from all the beautiful dimensions that compose our global village.
Equal Opportunity Policy (EEO)
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Skills Required
- 6+ years software engineering experience using Golang and/or Python
- Hands-on experience using Kubernetes/OpenShift
- Experience developing and managing Infrastructure as Code platforms (Terraform or equivalent)
- Experience developing and using monitoring and observability tools/stack
- Experience troubleshooting SaaS and PaaS offerings
- Experience with public cloud services
- Experience performing and reviewing peer code reviews
- Experience defining and maintaining SLOs and runbooks
- Customer (internal or external) focus
- Strong communication skills and experience collaborating across teams
- Ability to quickly learn new technologies
- Writing and maintaining Kubernetes Operators
- Prior experience building ML pipelines
- Knowledge of GitLab Pipelines, TektonCD, ArgoCD, and Kubeflow
- Working knowledge of coding agents/harness and ADLC
- Willingness to participate in a follow-the-sun on-call rotation
Red Hat Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Red Hat and has not been reviewed or approved by Red Hat.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is presented as comprehensive, spanning medical, dental, and vision along with life and disability coverage. Access to HSA/FSA options and broadly positive reception of health benefits support the view that healthcare is a core strength.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off offerings are described as generous, with substantial PTO for new hires plus additional recharge days and an end-of-year shutdown for many non-critical roles. Paid volunteer time, holidays, sick days, and supportive expectations around taking time off reinforce the breadth of leave benefits.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — The rewards package includes performance bonuses and a recurring quarterly bonus program tied to company and individual performance. Availability of ESPP participation further adds to incentive pathways beyond base pay.
Red Hat Insights
What We Do
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Why Work With Us
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