Principal Software Engineer- Foreman Team

The Red Hat Foreman ( team is looking for a highly experienced Principal Software this role you will provide technical leadership in designing developing and scaling enterprise-grade systems that manage and automate infrastructure at scale. You will play a key role in shaping architecture driving innovation and mentoring engineers while working closely with cross-functional teams in an Agile environment.. Foreman is a systems management solution in Ruby on Rails. We are a distributed team of engineers from all around the world. Our fully open-sourced stack includes the following technologies: Ruby Ruby on Rails PostgreSQL Sinatra. Foreman supports provisioning on hypervisors such as VMware kubevirt libvirt cloud services like AWS GCE Azure and security compliance framework OpenSCAP. Foreman project has an active community of contributors outside of Red Hat too. Youll have an opportunity to work on real-life issues of an enterprise product with thousands of users.

What you will do:

• Lead the design and development of scalable secure and high-performance features for Red Hat Satellite.

• Drive architectural decisions and influence long-term technical strategy across components and teams.

• Collaborate with product management engineering and cross-functional teams to define and deliver impactful solutions.

• Actively contribute to and engage with upstream communities (especially Foreman) aligning downstream product development with upstream innovation.

• Champion Agile practices and help teams continuously improve delivery quality and efficiency.

• Design and implement containerized solutions leveraging modern container platforms (e.g. Kubernetes/OpenShift).

• Lead initiatives in applying AI/ML including designing and building AI agents to improve development workflows automation and product capabilities.

• Mentor and guide senior engineers fostering technical excellence and knowledge sharing.

• Ensure high standards for code quality testing security and maintainability.

• Review and test contributions from community members

• Performing live demos of your work on regular basis to project users and developers

• Drive the end to end development of complex functionality which includes design implementation testing presentation.

What you will bring:

• Experience with Linux OS on user level

• DevOps skills: from writing Container Files to adding tests to maintaining CI/CD pipelines.

• Demonstrated ability to work with minimal local supervision as a part of a geographically distributed team.

• Deep experience using and operating Linux.

• Experience with GitHub actions GitLab pipelines or similar CI/CD systems

• Extensive experience in software engineering with a strong track record in building and scaling complex systems.

• Proven experience working in Agile development environments.

• Hands-on experience with the upstream Foreman community (development contributions or collaboration).

• Strong experience with container technologies (Docker Kubernetes OpenShift).

• Experience designing and implementing AI/ML solutions including building AI agents or automation systems.

• Strong programming skills in languages such as Python Ruby Go or Java.

• Experience with REST APIs distributed systems and cloud-native architectures.

• Deep understanding of software design principles system architecture and performance optimization.

• Strong collaboration and communication skills across globally distributed teams.

Plus:

• Prior experience working on infrastructure management or lifecycle management platforms.

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.

• Familiarity with Red Hat technologies and ecosystem.

• Contributions to open-source projects beyond Foreman.

• Networking or Linux administration skills experience with configuration management

• Programmatic/user knowledge of VMware or other hypervisor/cloud provider

Pay Transparency

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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.

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