Job Description
**Lead Security Engineering Team** A seasoned software engineer is sought to lead a new team focused on security-related engineering work, collaborating with stakeholders to develop and productize new technologies. Red Hat's Emerging Technologies team is looking for a Principal Software Engineer to lead a new team focused on security-related engineering work. In this role, you and your team will be involved in the research and productization of new security-related technologies that will ultimately become part of Red Hat's overall solution portfolio. **Key Responsibilities** * Collaborate cross-functionally to define and document Red Hat's long-term security technology strategy, informed by customers and partners, and including a gap analysis at a level of specificity on which solutions and services engineering and operations can take clear actions. * Promote alignment on the security technology strategy through working with product management and product engineering, participating in specific upstream projects and affecting their outcomes, working cross-collaboratively with other engineering organizations and meeting with partners to gather feedback and identify actions that help promote closure. * Advance, refine and inform the security technology strategy by incubating engineering projects within your own team, prioritizing which ideas to act upon. * Work to increase external visibility of the portfolio view for Red Hat Security by meeting with customers, partners, and press, speaking at conferences and seminars, producing and publicizing collateral. * Identify upstream communities germane to the success of the Red Hat Security strategy to ensure they have appropriate vitality and level of participation. * Work with our engineering, legal, security, communications, product, and recruiting teams to turn security-related contributions into powerful stories that demonstrate the strength of open source. **Requirements** * Extensive experience in enterprise software development with complex system requirements. * Leadership experience with globally distributed engineering teams and projects. * Experience with security-related engineering and design. * Familiarity with tools like OPA Integration with Tekton, Kafka, Argo CD, and Multi-Cluster, Trusted Execution Environments (Enarx), Dev Sec Ops, and open source secure supply chain. * Experience with containers, distributed systems, and Kubernetes. * Familiarity with open source communities and open source development. * Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English. * Excellent interpersonal skills; ability to directly interact with customers and community members. **Preferred Qualifications** * Experience contributing to the Kubernetes project. * Experience contributing to projects in Cloud Native Ecosystem. * Experience using Red Hat Open Shift. * Relationships in prominent open source communities are a plus. * Understanding of post-quantum security. **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. Our associates work flexibly across work environments, from in-office, to office-flex, to fully remote, depending on the requirements of their role. We're a leader in open source because of our open and inclusive environment, where the best ideas can come from anywhere and anyone.