Senior or Principal Software Engineer - Container Tools (Brno Office, Czech Republic)

Responsibilities

• Core Development: Contribute directly to container technologies and security libraries vendored into Podman, Podman Desktop, Buildah, Skopeo, OpenShift, and Kubernetes.
• Agile Collaboration: Participate actively in a cross-functional scrum team, completing tasks within sprint boundaries and delivering demos of completed work to your peers.
• Community Engagement: Work closely with upstream communities (like Fedora, Podman, Buildah) and coordinate with internal stakeholders, product managers, and community members.
• Quality Assurance: Design, implement, and maintain automated test cases and ensure clear, correct documentation exists for all new code.
• Security & Triage: Analyze complex defects, design resilient solutions, engineer fixes, and quickly respond to emerging security threats.
• Evangelism: Share your work and expertise with the broader tech community by writing blogs and presenting at technical conferences.

Requirements

• Linux and Containers: Solid, hands-on experience using Linux (workstation or server) and Linux containers or Kubernetes.
• Programming Languages: Proficiency in Go (Golang).
• Development Workflow: Strong experience with Git, GitHub and/or GitLab, continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, and conducting effective, constructive code reviews.
• Security and AI Familiarity: Experience analyzing systems for their security properties and an understanding of using AI and agents for software development.
• Communication: Good written and verbal English communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across distributed, remote teams.
• Preferred Skills and Experience
• Experience with Rust language.
• Experience with Linux system programming, the Linux Kernel, or kernel modules (such as GPU support and compilation).
• Knowledge of Open Source and Free Software community dynamics.
• Deeper familiarity with AI models, LLMs, and the efficient/secure distribution of AI models and container registries.
• Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) or Red Hat Certified Specialist in Containers certification.
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Benefits

Additional Information

The Red Hat Container Tools team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our global, distributed team. In this role, you will develop cutting-edge container technologies to support both internal stakeholders and external customers. You will work in a fast-paced, agile environment to write new features, review pull requests, fix bugs, update documentation, and define the architecture of new projects from inception through to adoption. This is a premier opportunity to work on deeply influential, emerging technologies-such as Podman, Buildah, Skopeo, and sigstore-and even help create new ones. Because the container and AI ecosystem is evolving rapidly, you should be comfortable working autonomously when documentation is sparse, though backup from our global team is always available.

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