Senior Software Engineer

Company Overview

Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver reliable and high-performing Linux, hybrid cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. We strive to make software freely accessible to everyone around the world. Software developed at Red Hat runs in vehicles that land on the moon, airlines, banks, trains, social media, health care, academic institutions, robots, and many other places.

The Red Hat Ansible Engineering team is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join us. In this role, you will work as part of a team to develop and maintain components within the Ansible Automation Platform ecosystem. You will deliver enhancements to our automation mesh offering and improve integration with our customers’ infrastructure environments’ automation workloads through development on our Hashicorp Platform integrations, helping to deliver impactful new features and enhancements to our customer base.

• Lead the design, implementation, and maintenance of complex, production-grade software solutions deployed at scale for the Ansible Automation Platform ecosystem.
• Mentor and coach other engineers on best practices, code quality, and system design, fostering a culture of quality within the team.
• Own and deliver features with clear business impact, ensuring high quality and value to the end user.
• Lead efforts to drive and maintain the Red Hat Automation Platform in sustaining its de‑facto industry standard automation platform reference.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex problems in the network and infrastructure space, utilizing your depth of knowledge in the Ansible Automation Platform and its components.
• Collaborate with and act as a project reviewer or maintainer for other engineers and architects, driving the creation and refinement of complex software design proposals and contributing to testing frameworks.
• Support and implement the adoption of new tools and technical practices within the team to advance engineering efficiency and quality.

• Passion for automation and an excitement to automate all the things.
• Deep expertise in Linux, system administration, shell scripting, and source control fundamentals.
• Extensive professional experience with Python or Go, including designing maintainable, well‑tested code.
• Experience with Hashicorp Terraform and Hashicorp Vault, including the use of Terraform for infrastructure provisioning and Vault for secrets management.
• Demonstrated experience leading software development within a platform ecosystem, including making architectural decisions that affect multiple components.
• Ability to independently scope and decompose ambiguous problems into well‑defined deliverables.
• Strong proficiency in Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), Cloud providers, and REST API principles.
• Deep understanding of infrastructure systems and networks, including familiarity with multiple customer deployment models.
• Customer empathy with a clear understanding of how automation of repetitive tasks provides business value.
• Demonstrated adoption of AI methodologies and tools to enhance efficiency, elevate code quality, guide problem solving and spark innovation.
• Proven experience in establishing standards and best practices in a team through expertise and influence.
• Successful experience in mentoring junior and mid‑level engineers through code reviews, pairing, and technical feedback.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English, with the ability to communicate technical concepts to diverse audiences.

• Experience integrating with third‑party providers, leveraging APIs and implementation of abstraction layers.
• Experience with Terraform provider development.
• Experience with public Cloud providers.
• Experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and/or Red Hat Open Shift, including administration and management.
• Familiarity with Ansible and its ecosystem catalog.
• Experience with open‑source project contributions.
• Previous experience with Agile Software Development from story discovery through to implementation, testing, and deployment.
• Experien…