Senior Software EngineerThe Red Hat Identity Management (IdM) Engineering team seeks a Senior Software Engineer to help us deliver on the next generation of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) product functionalities within Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and the Red Hat Certificate System as well as contributing to open-source projects like Dogtag PKI. As a Senior Software Engineer, your main focus will be on designing, developing, testing and collaborating with other contributors over the world to bring features on existing components or bootstrap new ones. This is an ideal position for engineers interested in contributing to open source projects, and services for enterprise & public sector critical infrastructure.What You Will DoLead the design and development of high-quality PKI solutions, own the quality of their code and contribute to testing frameworks.Participate in the whole development cycle from requirements gathering, scoping, source code development to testing and verificationPractice defensive programming to deliver stable and high-quality software for Red Hat customers and upstream communities.Communicate and collaborate with developers and teams inside and outside Red HatInfluence the technical direction of their team and adjacent teams by building consensus in broader discussions with internal customers or through active participation in external communitiesMentor and coach other engineers, share expertise by producing comprehensive design documents, writing blog posts, and mentoring others on documentation and communication best practicesWhat You Will Have5+ years of professional software engineering experience.Java / Rust programming experience; professional or academic experience is requiredKnowledge of Linux operating system and its development tools; any distribution is OKExperience with PKI, cryptography, and general system and software security technologiesExperience using AI agents to accelerate development efforts.Good written and verbal communication in English.The Following Will Be Considered A PlusExperience with an autonomous agentic software defined lifecycleExperience with Agile development methodologies (e.g.
Scrum, JIRA)Experience with Python, Bash, or similar scripting languagesExperience with software testing, CI/CD, and related frameworksExperience with package maintenance on Fedora/RHELExperience with hybrid cloud systems or frameworks (e.g., OpenShift, AWS, Microsoft Azure)