Principal Software Engineer - Soverign Cloud

About this role

Job Summary: The Red Hat Engineering team is looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join us in the Ra'anana office, focusing on the sovereign cloud project. In this role, you will design and build a high-scale, multi-tenant cloud platform that abstracts complex isolation, quota management, and jurisdictional compliance into a seamless experience—powering sovereign OpenShift-as-a-Service, VM-as-a-Service and Model-as-a-Service (AI) offerings. You'll play a specific part in defining the architecture for Kubernetes deployment infrastructure and in developing our offerings from inception, through upstream development, to delivery

What you will do: Play an active role in container and virtualization-related projects and communities like Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift, and KubeVirt Create and guide new feature development; contribute to open source projects in Golang, Python. Coordinate with team leads, architects, and other engineers on the design and architecture of our offerings Become responsible for the quality of our offerings, participate in peer code reviews and continuous integration (CI), and respond to security threats Work with Red Hat's Global Customer Support team and partner support teams on resolving customer issues Work with the Quality Engineering (QE) team to ensure that projects are tested correctly Publicize the team's work through blogs, web postings, or conference talks Stay up-to-date on the latest advancements in AI frameworks, and leverage those in your day to day work 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. What you will bring: 8+ years of experience working in a Linux environment with at least one language like Golang, Python, Java, or C or C++ Expert in a container ecosystem like Docker, Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift

Expert in microservices architectures and co

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