Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, and they are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to enhance OpenShift as the premier Kubernetes platform. This role involves leading the design of complex systems, mentoring engineers, and ensuring software quality while collaborating with various teams and contributing to the open source community.
Responsibilities
- Leads the design and development of software solutions for features that cross multiple subsystems or components
- Acts as a key representative and leader within the community, advocating for internal or external customer needs, while aligning products with the community direction
- Coaches and mentors senior engineers across teams
- Owns and delivers technical initiatives with visible business impact, enabling the entire team to deliver value to the end user
- Evaluates and introduces new AI-driven methodologies that resolve complex issues and improve Engineering efficiency
- Leads the definition and implementation of the SDLC for complex multi-component systems, ensuring that the process scales effectively and aligns with the needs of multiple collaborating teams
Skills
- Extensive Open Source experience and active participation in community-driven development
- 7+ years of experience developing software in a Linux environment using a language like Go, Ruby, Python, Java, C, or C++
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, or equivalent
- Solid experience designing, building, and debugging distributed systems
- Thorough understanding of container concepts and container runtimes
- Familiarity with Kubernetes, both as a user and as a developer
- Experience with Agentic AI based Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and advanced use of AI-based tools
- Familiarity with modern toolchains and CI/CD pipelines
- Experience with distributed version control systems, specifically Git and GitHub workflows
- Excellent interpersonal, cross-team collaboration, and ability to work with distributed teams
- Understanding Kubernetes architecture and internals
- Experience with development for public cloud services (AWS, GCE, Azure)
- Previous contributions to open source projects or being an open source maintainer
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!
Company Overview
Red Hat is a software company that offers enterprise open-source software solutions. It is a sub-organization of IBM. It was founded in 1993, and is headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is http://www.redhat.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
Red Hat has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 13 in 2026, 157 in 2025, 148 in 2024, 156 in 2023, 181 in 2022, 154 in 2021, 106 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.