The Red Hat Emerging Technologies group is looking for a Principal Software Engineer with Kubernetes and MLOps (Machine Learning Operations) experience to join our rapidly growing engineering team. Our focus is to create a platform, partner ecosystem, and community by which enterprise customers can solve problems to accelerate business success using AI. This is a very exciting opportunity to build and impact the next generation of hybrid cloud MLOps platforms, contribute to the development of the RH AI product, participate in open source communities, and be at the forefront of the exciting evolution of AI. You’ll join an ecosystem that fosters continuous learning, career growth, and professional development.
You will work as part of an evolving development team to rapidly design, secure, build, test, and release new capabilities. The role is primarily a Tech lead who collaborates closely with other developers and cross-functional teams. Day-to-day you will also help lead, coach and mentor more junior associates, and develop team processes. You should have a passion for working in open-source communities and for developing solutions that integrate Red Hat, open-source, and partner technologies into a cohesive solution for grant funded projects, and PoCs.

What you will do

• Be a leader in relevant upstream AI/ML communities with a focus on driving the direction of technologies and how they might be used within our offerings.
• Identify and evaluate emerging technologies to help shape future directions.
• Design and lead the development and implementation of software for Red Hat grant funded projects.
• Develop architectural and design principles with an eye on performance, resilience, scalability, security, technology constraints and comprehensibility.
• Communicate architectural concepts and decisions to various audiences
• Be an owner of product quality for our product set by looking to continuously improve process (Agile) and coding standards.
• Be a coach and mentor to junior members of the team and help expand their skills sets
• Work closely with / lead Engineering, Product Management and partner stakeholders.

What you will bring

• Experience developing applications in Go, Python, Rust and/or other languages
• Experience in Kubernetes, OpenShift or other cloud-native technologies
• Ability to quickly learn and use new tools and technologies, creating POCs in short timeframes, with an experiment first mentality
• 5+ years experience with source code management tools such as Git
• Excellent system understanding and troubleshooting capabilities
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrated innovation (ideally patents)
• Experience in an R&D environment (ideally Horizon Europe)

About Red Hat
Red Hat
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• Be a leader in relevant upstream AI/ML communities with a focus on driving the direction of technologies and how they might be used within our offerings.
• Identify and evaluate emerging technologies to help shape future directions.
• Design and lead the development and implementation of software for Red Hat grant funded projects.
• Develop architectural and design principles with an eye on performance, resilience, scalability, security, technology constraints and comprehensibility.
• Communicate architectural concepts and decisions to various audiences
• Be an owner of product quality for our product set by looking to continuously improve process (Agile) and coding standards.
• Be a coach and mentor to junior members of the team and help expand their skills sets
• Work closely with / lead Engineering, Product Management and partner stakeholders