Senior Software Engineer

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Red Hat’s Global Engineering team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Agentic and AI Engineering Tools team to develop a Kubernetes/Open Shift Operator and associated software for orchestrating deployment of Llama Stack. In this role, you’ll contribute directly to Red Hat’s rapidly growing AI/ML family of products and will be responsible for the design, development, and refinement of software adding features thatenable Llama Stack to achieve enterprise readiness.

The ideal candidate will have a proven background in developing robust and scalable code. You will need to adhere to coding best practices and standards, including well‑documented, efficient code; building and implementing upstream unit and E2E automated tests; maintaining updated code documentation and comments; following security best practices; participating in code reviews and peer review in upstream projects; and staying up‑to‑dateاهر with software engineering technologies, frameworks, and methodologies.

• Architect and develop a platform for Agentic AI applications.
• Collaborate with Staff Engineers, Engineering, Product Management, and User Experience to define customer needs and use cases.
• Collaborate with Quality Engineers to develop and implement comprehensive unit, integration, and end‑to‑end tests to guarantee reliability and performance in the upstream project, maintain CI/CD workflows in Git Hub, and ensure downstream quality.
• Participate in AI‑assisted code reviews, utilizing tools that provide real‑time feedback, identify potential bugs, security vulnerabilities, and adherence to coding standards, contributing to a more thorough and efficient review process.
• Proactively utilize AI‑assisted development tools (e.g., Git Hub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code) for code generation, auto‑completion, and intelligent suggestions to accelerate development cycles and enhance code quality.
• Create and maintain clear, concise upstream technical documentation including API references and user guides and collaborate with our internal tech writers to create robust downstream documentation.
What You Will Bring
• 7 to 10 years of advanced Python development experience.
• Advanced knowledge designing robust and scalable software used in highly scaled and performant distributed systems.
• Experience with building agents, agentic workflows, or developing with LLMs.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes/Open Shift and operational knowledge building/deploying containers.
• Experience creating automation for Git Hub, using Git Hub Actions or related continuous integration tools.
• Experience developing, deploying or maintaining on‑prem or cloud infrastructure.
• Advanced knowledge developing unit, functional, and end‑to‑end (E2E) test cases and automation.
• Ability to quickly learn and use new tools and technologies.
Plus
• Experience with open source projects.
• Experience with security, observability, performance or scale.
• Understanding of Dev Ops methodology, scrum, and/or Jira.
• Experience with AI and Machine Learning platforms, tools and frameworks, such as Llama Stackங்களை Lang Chain, PyTorch, LLaMA.cpp, vLLM, Lang Graph, and Kubeflow.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree…