Principal Software Engineer - Data Management

• Contribute to the design and implementation of Red Hat’s Attribute-Based Model (ABM) for product data management.
• Analyze existing product datasets, SKUs, and business workflows to discover patterns, attributes, and relationships that define Red Hat’s product offerings.
• Participate in attribute discovery and modeling, including identifying engineering identifiers, entitlement attributes, and product characteristics that define valid product combinations.
• Collaborate with product operations and business teams to translate business workflows into scalable platform capabilities.
• Design and implement composition rules and rule engines that generate valid product configurations from attribute sets.
• Build and maintain the translator layer that converts attribute combinations into transactional representations used by downstream systems.
• Develop backend services and APIs that power the ABM abstraction layer, enabling business users to manage products through attributes rather than raw SKU structures.
• Build full stack capabilities that allow users to create, manage, and modify product configurations through intuitive interfaces.
• Design systems that tag product transactions with attribute metadata to enable revenue intelligence and advanced analytics.
• Develop data pipelines and transformations that support reliable data flow between product systems, data platforms, and downstream applications.
• Identify opportunities to automate workflows and improve system intelligence through pattern recognition in data and usage behavior.
• Implement observability, monitoring, and testing practices to ensure reliability and maintainability of systems.
• Collaborate with platform engineers, data engineers, and business stakeholders to ensure solutions deliver measurable business impact.

• Strong full stack software engineering experience building scalable backend services and modern web applications.
• Solid experience with data engineering concepts, including data modeling, transformation pipelines, and structured data processing.
• Strong ability to analyze complex datasets and identify patterns that can drive system design and automation.
• Proficiency in SQL and relational data systems.
• Experience programming in at least one general-purpose language such as Python, Java, Go, or similar.
• Experience building APIs and backend services that support data-driven applications.
• Experience designing systems that are metadata-driven, rule-based, or configuration-based.
• Strong curiosity and willingness to explore unfamiliar domains and continuously learn new technologies.
• Ability to translate complex business workflows into scalable technical solutions.
• Strong collaboration skills when working with cross-functional teams including product operations, engineering, and data teams.
• Bias for action, ownership, and continuous improvement.

• Experience working with product data management, master data management, or product configuration systems.
• Experience building attribute-based models or metadata-driven platforms.
• Experience working with modern data platforms such as Snowflake, dbt, Airflow, or similar technologies.
• Experience with event-driven architectures or streaming systems.
• Familiarity with cloud-native platforms such as Kubernetes or OpenShift.
• Exposure to AI or machine learning techniques used for pattern discovery or automation.
• Experience working in open source or InnerSource development environments.

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