Principal Software Engineer - Red Hat Trusted Artifact Signer

About the job

The Red Hat Trusted Artifact Signer team is looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join us as a remote lead. In this role, you will lead Red Hat’s efforts in the Sigstore upstream projects, perform feature enhancement and bug fixes, and mentor other Red Hat team members in community involvement. You'll help define the architecture of new projects or features, and develop those from inception through to inclusion upstream. As a Principal Software Engineer, you will be a part of a distributed team and work both on your own and in tight collaboration and regular communication with other team members and upstream developers.

What you will do

• Lead RHTAS contributions in the upstream community with new development work, features and bug fixes
• Oversee development, maintenance and releases for Red Hat Trusted Artifact Signer
• Lead downstream productization efforts, including integration with RHTAP, Tekton Pipelines, and Red Hat Trusted Content
• Ensure product security compliance for Red Hat Trusted Artifact Signer
• Lead cross product integration efforts between RHTAS and other Trusted Content products at Red Hat
• Community and product evangelism through blog posts, demos, and conference presentations

What you will bring

• Proven and demonstrable experience designing, writing, testing and delivering enterprise level software products
• Experience working with open source communities and familiarity with upstream development practices
• Experience with Go. Other programming languages, including Python and Node.js is a plus
• Solid understanding of cloud computing and Kubernetes
• Professional level of written and spoken English language

The following are considered a plus:

• Familiarity with cryptography, including digital signatures, signing keys, certificates and key management
• Familiarity with the Sigstore upstream project
• Familiarity with the Ansible project and tooling