The Red Hat Emerging Technologies team within the Office of the CTO is looking for a Principal Software Engineer to lead a new team that is 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. You'll be responsible for planning, design and prototyping of security projects, working with a variety of stakeholders in open source communities around the world as well as within Red Hat itself. 

What you will do

• Collaborate cross-functionally to define and document Red Hat's long-term security technology strategy, which is informed by customers and partners and includes 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 to iterate on alignment and promote gaps identified to a close, 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, press and analysts; speak 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

• Cultivate our open source presence and reputation in security-related open source organizations, standards bodies and more

What you will bring

• 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, ArgoCD, and Multi-Cluster, Trusted Execution Environments (Enarx), DevSecOps, 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

The following are considered a plus

• Experience contributing to the Kubernetes project

• Experience contributing to projects in Cloud Native Ecosystem

• Experience using Red Hat OpenShift

• Relationships in prominent open source communities are a plus

• Understanding of post-quantum security

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