Senior Software Engineer (Agent Development) Boston, MA Hybrid

At Red Hat we connect an innovative community of customers partners and contributors to deliver an open source stack of trusted high-performing solutions. We offer cloud Linux middleware virtualization and AI technologies together with award-winning global customer support consulting and implementation services. Red Hat is a rapidly-growing company supporting more than 90% of Fortune 500 companies.

Job Summary

At Red Hat our commitment to open source innovation extends beyond our products - its embedded in how we work and grow. Red Hatters embrace change especially in our fast-moving technological landscape and have a strong growth mindset. Thats why we encourage our teams to proactively thoughtfully and ethically use AI to simplify their workflows cut complexity and boost efficiency. This empowers our associates to focus on higher-impact work creating smart more innovative solutions that solve our customers most pressing challenges.

Red Hats Global Engineering team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Agentic and AI Engineering Tools this role youll contribute directly to Red Hats rapidly growing AI/ML family of products and will be responsible for the design development and refinement of software adding features that enable agents to achieve enterprise readiness.

The ideal candidate will have a proven background in developing robust and scalable code. As part of your responsibilities you will need to adhere to coding best practices and standards including well-documented and efficient code; building and implementing upstream unit and E2E automated tests maintaining updated code documentation and comments following security best practices participating in code reviews and other peer review in upstream projects and staying up-to-date with software engineering technologies frameworks and methodologies.

What You Will Do

• Architect and develop a platform for Agentic AI applications.

• Collaborate with Staff Engineers Engineering Product Management and User Experience to define customer needs and use cases.

• Collaborate with Quality Engineers to develop and implement comprehensive unit integration and end-to-end tests to guarantee the reliability and performance in the upstream project maintaining CI/CD workflows in GitHub and ensuring downstream quality.

• Participate in AI-assisted code reviews utilizing tools that provide real-time feedback identify potential bugs security vulnerabilities and adherence to coding standards contributing to a more thorough and efficient review process.

• 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.

• Create and maintain clear concise upstream technical documentation including API references and user guides and collaborating with our internal tech writers to create robust downstream documentation.

What You Will Bring

• 7 years of intermediate to advanced Python development experience

• Experience with building agents agentic workflows or developing with LLMs

• Knowledge of Kubernetes/OpenShift and operational knowledge building/deploying containers.

• Experience creating automation for GitHub using GitHub Actions or related continuous integration tools.

• Knowledge designing robust and scalable software used in highly scaled and performant Distributed Systems

• Experience developing deploying or maintaining On-prem or Cloud Infrastructure

• Advanced knowledge developing unit functional and end-to-end (E2E) test cases and automation

• Ability to quickly learn and use new tools and technologies

Following is considered a plus

• Experience with AI and Machine Learning platforms tools and frameworks such as MLflow Llama Stack LangChain PyTorch vLLM LangGraph and Kubeflow.

• Experience with open source projects.

• Experience with Security Observability Performance or Scale.

• Understanding of DevOps methodology scrum and/or Jira.

• Bachelors or Masters degree in computer science or related discipline.

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About Red Hat

Red Hat is the worlds 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. Were 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.

Inclusion at Red Hat
Red Hats 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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