Senior Software Engineer - Ansible Automation Platform

About the Role

We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Platform Services team within the Ansible Engineering group. In this role, you'll partner closely with Product Management, Quality Engineering, Customer Support, and other engineering teams to deliver a seamless platform experience. Your primary focus will be building and maintaining centralized capabilities—such as authentication, authorization, load balancing, and traffic routing—for the Ansible Automation Platform.

We value clean design, technical excellence, and strong collaboration, and we’re looking for someone who shares those values and wants to be part of an open, inclusive, and supportive engineering culture.

What You’ll Do

• Design and implement new features and bug fixes related to authentication and authorization for Ansible Automation Platform 

• Collaborate with various teams to identify the scope of work and use tools such as Jira to document requirements

• Create unit and integration tests to verify that developed software meets the requirements

• Participate in code reviews, providing constructive feedback to peers and mentoring junior engineers on technical designs, merge requests, etc.

• Provide escalation level troubleshooting and timely resolution of system, network and infrastructure issues.

• Help mentor and learn from other engineers in a highly collaborative team environment

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

• Regularly 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

What You’ll Bring

• Desire to lead from technical design through execution

• Significant experience with Python, Django and Django Rest Framework

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

• Deep knowledge in one or more areas of identity and access management such as authentication, authorization, etc. ​​

• Comfortable working in a Linux-based environment

• Experience with SQL and relational databases such as PostgreSQL

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

• Experience working on large-scale projects utilizing version control with CI/CD systems like Jenkins and GitHub Actions

• Excellent written and oral communication skills, with the ability to drive discussions with both technical and non-technical audiences, and an ability to describe projects that you or the team is working on with confidence and depth of understanding.

• An aptitude for jumping in to help unblock, mentor and learn from others

• An agile mindset, with openness and flexibility to pivot towards the highest priority work items as needed

Bonus Skills

• Knowledge of industry standard security concepts and protocols like SAML, SCIM, OAuth, OIDC, and RBAC.

• Proficient with Envoy Proxy (including building filters, controlling envoy via API, and monitoring)

• Hands-on experience using Ansible for automating tasks such as configuration management, application deployment, cloud provisioning, etc.

• Working knowledge of message queuing technologies such as Redis.

• Contributor to one or more open-source projects

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The salary range for this position is $116,270.00 - $191,840.00. 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. 

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