Job Summary

The Red Hat Ecosystems Engineering group is seeking a Principal Integration Engineer to join our rapidly growing team, focusing on the sovereign cloud project. In this role, you will design and build a high-scale, multi-tenant cloud platform that abstracts complex isolation, quota management, and jurisdictional compliance into a seamless experience—powering sovereign Open Shift-as-a-Service, VM-as-a-Service and Model-as-a-Service (AI) offerings. As a part of a geographically distributed team, you will collaborate with multiple Red Hat engineering teams and open source communities around the globe. To be successful in this role, you'll need to have motivation, curiosity, passion for problem-solving, and experience with Linux technologies and open source.

What You Will Do:

• Play an active role applying Kubernetes and Red Hat Open Shift to customer use cases

• Develop and integrate changes in multiple projects using open source methodologies to provide end-to-end solutions

• Troubleshoot, analyze bug root causes, and provide resolutions

• Review design, enhancement proposal, and patches from other team members and other collaborators

• Work with various engineering team to ensure products are developed and tested correctly

• Publicize the team's work through blogs, web postings, or conference talks

• Stay up-to-date on the latest advancements in AI frameworks, and leverage those in your day to day work

• Proactively utilize AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code) for code generation, auto-completion, and intelligent suggestions to accelerate development cycles and enhance code quality

What You Will Bring:

• 8 year of relevant technical experience

• Expert level of experience with RHEL or other Linux distributions

• Expert level of experience with Kubernetes

• Experience with AI frameworks and tooling

• Technical leadership acumen in a global team environment

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; fluent English language skills

The following is considered a plus:

• Background in DevOps or site reliability engineering (SRE)

• Experience with performance analysis tools

• Experience with Linux kernel development

• Experience with performance analysis tools

• Relevant security certifications (CISSP, CSSLP, etc.)

• Experience with cloud security and Dev Sec Ops practices

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The salary range for this position is $170,770.00 - $281,770.00. Actual offer will be based on your qualifications.

Pay Transparency

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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, to fully remote, depending on the requirements of their role. Red Hatters are encouraged to bring their best ideas, no matter their title or tenure. We're a leader in open source because of our open and inclusive environment. We hire creative, passionate people ready to contribute their ideas, help solve complex problems, and make an impact.

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!

Note: These benefits are only applicable to full time, permanent associates at Red Hat located in the United States.

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