Principal Software Engineer

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Job Summary 

Principal Software Engineer, Ansible Automation - UI Technical Leadership 

Are you a forward-thinking front end developer with a passion for the user experience. Do you have experience delivering enterprise level applications and/or solutions to market. Do you have what it takes to drive the user experience and technical architecture for the Ansible Automation Platform? Do you thrive on cross-functional leadership and influencing key decisions across a wide technical portfolio? If so, the Red Hat Ansible Engineering team (https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/management/ansible) is looking for you.

We're looking for an expert in UI development to step into a high-impact role influencing both the “what” and the “how” for the Ansible Automation Platform’s user experience. You'll be recognized for your visible technical impact and your ability to coordinate architecture across multiple technical areas and teams.

This isn't just a job; it's a chance to define the future of enterprise automation! You'll be at the forefront of technology, with the scope to make a lasting, visible impact on a flagship product that is strategically vital to Red Hat customers.

If you're ready to bring your passion for UI/UX and your leadership to a world-class team, we invite you to apply.

What you will do:

• Be the vision and technology leader for the Ansible user experience

• Work across Ansible engineering teams, with stakeholders, UX Design, Patternfly (our design language), as well as other teams in Red Hat, and possibly 3rd party dev teams

• Responsible for guiding the user experience for the Ansible product offerings. This may entail collectively defining the art of possible. 

• Lead and influence people and projects

• Participate in product release cycles, deploying code to integration, staging and production environments, integrating with CI/CD tooling

• Help mentor and learn from other engineers in a highly-collaborative team environment, as well as participate in peer code reviews

• Participate in the team’s Agile scrum process, demos and check-ins with Product Management and other stakeholders to align on use-cases and plan new initiatives

• Help guide and execute on our UI modernization strategy

What you will bring:

• Java Script, React, TypeScript, CSS, HTML, Playwright

• REST APIs (using an OpenAPI spec)

• Knowledge of and working experience with AI technologies

• Experience or familiarity with the Ansible Automation Platform would be ideal

• Working knowledge of Agile methodologies

• Ability to lead, influence, and inspire

• Experience delivering enterprise level applications and/or solutions

• Significant experience with Python, Django and Django REST Framework

• Experience with Python unit and integration testing with tools such as pytest

• Experience with Linux

• Experience with SQL and relational databases such as PostgreSQL

• Experience with utilizing container management platforms and development environments like Kubernetes, OpenShift, and Docker/Docker Compose

• Experience with CI/CD systems like Jenkins and GitHub Actions

• Team leadership experience

• Experience working on and even leading large-scale projects (open-source experience is a plus)

• Demonstrated ability to quickly and accurately troubleshoot system and performance issues

• Good communications skills, and experience working directly with and presenting to stakeholders

• An aptitude for jumping i