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Job Description
Principal Software Engineer - Security Engineering
Lead a team focused on security-related engineering work, researching and productizing new security technologies for Red Hat's solution portfolio.
Key Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with stakeholders to define and document Red Hat's long-term security technology strategy, identifying gaps and solutions for engineering and operations.
- Promote alignment on the security technology strategy through working with product management and product engineering, participating in upstream projects, and meeting with partners to gather feedback.
- Advance, refine, and inform the security technology strategy by incubating engineering projects within your own team, prioritizing ideas to act upon.
- Work to increase external visibility of the portfolio view for Red Hat Security by meeting with customers, partners, press, and analysts, speaking at conferences and seminars, and 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 engineering, legal, security, communications, product, and recruiting teams to turn security-related contributions into powerful stories that demonstrate the strength of open source.
- Cultivate open source presence and reputation in security-related open source organizations, standards bodies, and more.
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.
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 culture is built on the open source principles of transparency, collaboration, and inclusion, where the best ideas can come from anywhere and anyone.
We're a leader in open source because of our open and inclusive environment, where everyone experiences equal opportunity and access, and all voices are not only heard but also celebrated.