Software Engineer - Hummingbird (Brno Office, Czech Republic)

About this role

The Red Hat Hummingbird team is looking for a Software Engineer in Brno, Czech Republic. In this role, you will help build and maintain the systems that produce hundreds of container image deliverables from open source software. You'll work across the full lifecycle of those images -- from packaging upstream code, to building and testing containers, to shipping reliable artifacts that customers depend on

Hummingbird is Red Hat's effort to deliver open source projects as compact, secure container images with as few CVEs as possible. We are an agentic-first team -- you'll accomplish much of your work by developing, directing, and refining AI agents that automate engineering tasks at scale. Prior AI agent experience is not required, but you should be excited to work this way and comfortable adapting as the tooling evolves

You'll contribute to tooling, automation, and processes that make this possible at scale, and you'll do it in the open alongside the broader open source community. What you will do Build, maintain, and improve the automated pipelines that produce RPM packages and container images from open source components Develop and run test suites that validate our images for enterprise-grade stability and security compliance Collaborate with upstream communities and peer teams across Red Hat to integrate new software components and resolve issues Identify and implement improvements to our build and release tooling, reducing manual effort and improving throughput Participate in a distributed Agile Scrum team, contributing to planning, reviews, and retrospectives What you will bring Experience with scripting languages such as Python or Bash Linux proficiency: comfort using, assembling, and deploying Linux distributions (Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Fedora, or similar) 1+ year(s) of professional experience building and managing containers (Podman, Docker, Containerfiles) Ability to work effectively with minimal day-to-day supervision as part of a geographically distr

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