Senior Software Engineer

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.

The salary range for this position is $136,320.00 - $225,090.00. Actual offer will be based on your qualifications.

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, t