Principal Software Engineer

About the job:

 Red Hat's customer identity and access management team is looking for a Principal Software Engineer in Pune, India. In this role, you will collaborate with a diverse and innovative team responsible for the key authentication, and user management service for Red Hat's open-hybrid cloud platform, sso.redhat.com, and its surrounding integrations. You will work on the full-stack design, development, testing, and release of SSO and related applications, with a focus on backend development. Qualified applicants will contribute to the team's capabilities by demonstrating technical competence, exceptional communication skills, personal initiative, creativity, desire to learn, transparency, and ability to work as part of a team.  

What will you do?

• In tight collaboration with your peers, design, develop, test, maintain, and operate primarily Java applications across large, multi-region deployments

• Participate in CIAM feature development and facilitate diverse integrations with other Red Hat offerings and backend infrastructure.

• Support custom plugins for the Keycloak deployment

• Implement and support the deployment of identity and access management solutions that integrate with protocols like OpenID Connect 1.0, OAuth 2.0 and SAML 2.0

• Analyze and clarify business requirements

• Contribute to application release processes with GitLab pipelines and Red Hat OpenShift

• Contribute to observability instrumentation and monitoring tools

• Participate in application support rotation

What will you bring?

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or other closely related field

• 10 years of professional experience in Java or other object-oriented languages

• 4 years of professional experience with Python or other scripting languages

• Experience implementing integration design patterns, especially in a microservices and/or event-driven architecture

• Excellent communication skills and ability to work within a distributed team

• Good understanding of core concepts related programming to application security

• Ability to quickly learn new domains and technologies

• Familiarity with modern token based application security standards like OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect 1.0

• Familiarity or hands on experience with Keycloak project or Red Hat SSO product is a plus

• Experience using MySQL, PostgreSQL and/or MongoDB

• Experience working with distributed source control such as Git, including branching and merging

• Good understanding of continuous integration and continuous delivery tools and processes

• Good understanding of DevOps principles and practices

• Knowledge of Kubernetes and/or Linux Containers is a plus

About Red Hat

Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver high-performing Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Spread across 40+ countries, our associates work flexibly across work environments, from in-office, to office-flex, to fully remote, depending on the requirements of their role. Red Hatters are encouraged to bring their best ideas, no matter their title or tenure. We're a leader in open source because of our open and inclusive environment. We hire creative, passionate people ready to contribute their ideas, help solve complex problems, and make an impact.

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