Principal Software Engineer

About the role

This team owns the systems and practices that define how ROSA software moves from commit to production - across global AWS regions, safely and at speed. You will design, build, and operate the CI/CD pipelines, testing infrastructure, release automation, and delivery tooling that the broader ROSA engineering organization depends on every day. The stack includes Prow, ci-operator, Argo CD, Terraform, Konflux, and app-interface/qontract, with a strong emphasis on pipeline reliability, progressive delivery, automated quality gates, and infrastructure-as-code validation.. There is no separate operations team: what you build, you run - including operating across a multi-region fleet of management clusters and service clusters via OCM APIs. This is not a role where CI/CD is a side responsibility. It is the job. You will own the end-to-end delivery pipeline for a complex, multi-region managed Kubernetes service - designing systems that catch problems before they reach production, enable safe and frequent releases, and give engineers fast, reliable feedback on every change. Success requires deep expertise in CI/CD architecture, build and release engineering, automated testing strategy, and production delivery, combined with strong Kubernetes and AWS fluency and the judgment to make sound trade-offs in a high-stakes production environment. As Red Hat continues evolving toward a more AI-enabled software development lifecycle, you will also help define how AI-powered tooling and automation are integrated into CI/CD - from intelligent test selection and AI-assisted code review to agentic pipeline automation and LLM-powered release validation. Our engineering culture values strong ownership, technical depth, open collaboration, and continuous improvement.