About the job :

Red Hat Product Security is looking for a Product Security Software Engineer to join our global Compliance Engineering team

Our Vision: 10X compliance and security activities through automation. We make existing tools easy to use and partner with product teams to create new tools when needed.

Our Mission: Create a strategic integration of tools and processes to enable security and compliance activities at scale—allowing 10s of people to do what has traditionally taken 100s.

Our Goals

• Partner with engineering product teams, compliance teams, and managed service teams to automate evidence collection and remediation for compliance standards for certification of Red Hat managed services.

• Partner with open source communities and use open source tools as much as possible.

• Foster a collaborative, high-trust environment where we tackle complex challenges as a team and make sure to have fun along the way.

What You Will Do :

• Design, develop, and maintain security and compliance automation solutions using Python or Go, moving projects from ideation through validation.

• Work directly with compliance frameworks to automate the evidence-gathering process, ensuring Red Hat services meet rigorous certification standards.

• Apply design thinking practices to architect technical solutions that are user-centric, ensuring security and compliance tools are intuitive for adoption.

• Take ownership of software at the component level, resolving security issues that cross boundaries and contributing directly to upstream projects to improve the ecosystem.

• Work alongside cross-functional teams to refine our shared methodologies. We value transparency, respectful feedback, and soft influence through modeling best practices like test-driven development and Git Ops.

• Share your expertise with others through documentation, internal presentations, or technical blogs.

What You Will Bring :

• Familiarity with compliance frameworks and experience using or building compliance tooling.

• Strong experience with Linux, modern container technologies (Podman, Kubernetes, Open Shift), and CI/CD pipelines.

• A background or strong interest in product security, including an understanding of how to build secure-by-design software.

• Desire to expand your contributions or influence within the open-source community.

• Ability to work independently within a distributed, multicultural team across multiple time zones.

• Maintains an open mindset with a proactive interest in collaboratively evolving and improving our team's working methodologies.

• Ability to articulate technical information clearly and build connections both within and outside your immediate team.

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.

Inclusion at Red Hat Red Hat’s culture is built on the open source principles of transparency, collaboration, and inclusion, where the best ideas can come from anywhere and anyone. When this is realized, it empowers people from different backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences to come together to share ideas, challenge the status quo, and drive innovation. Our aspiration is that everyone experiences this culture with equal opportunity and access, and that all voices are not only heard but also celebrated. We hope you will join our celebration, and we welcome and encourage applicants from all the beautiful dimensions that compose our global village.

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