Senior Software Engineer - GCP Hosted Control Planes (UK, Ireland or Czechia)

About this role

Red Hat Engineering is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the GCP Hosted Control Planes (HCP) team. This team builds and operates a managed service that enables organizations to run OpenShift Kubernetes clusters on Google Cloud Platform using HyperShift, hosting multiple Kubernetes control planes on shared GKE infrastructure to reduce cost and operational overhead for customers. This role sits at the intersection of distributed systems architecture and a new engineering discipline

Our team practices an agent-first development methodology where AI coding agents are a primary mechanism for producing, testing, and maintaining code. Engineers on this team function as harness engineers: they design the environments, constraints, and feedback loops that enable AI agents to do reliable work. As a Senior Engineer, you will not only work within this model but lead its evolution: defining the architectural boundaries agents must respect, designing the documentation architecture that serves as the agent knowledge base, building the enforcement mechanisms (custom linters, structural tests, CI gates) that prevent entropy, and mentoring the team in effective human-agent collaboration patterns

You will lead architectural decisions for a platform spanning GKE host clusters, HyperShift control planes, GCP networking and identity, observability, and deployment automation. You'll exercise expert judgment in specifying intent for complex systems work, evaluating whether agent-produced implementations meet the bar for production managed services, and deciding when to invest in harness infrastructure versus direct implementation. What you will do Lead the design of the GCP HCP platform architecture, including multi-region scalability, multi-tenancy and isolation, automated lifecycle management, and operational resilience Design and evolve the team's harness engineering infrastructure: the system of architectural constraints, custom linters, structural tests, CI gates, and f

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