Senior Principal Software Engineer

About the Job:

The Red Hat IT Innovation Team is looking for a Senior Principal Software Engineer to join us in Pune, India. In this role, you will work as a member of a newly established, highly dynamic, and fast-paced team. As part of the product development team, you’ll need to be creative, motivated, and proficient in architecting and designing cutting-edge applications that leverage Generative AI. You will work closely with different teams, stakeholders, product owners, and program managers to design, document, and develop solutions. We are looking for a focused skill set, experience in advanced development expertise with Java, and solid fundamentals in computer science are preferred. Prior experience in designing and implementing Generative AI-based applications is a plus.

What will you do:

• Architect, design, document, and develop applications in Java and frameworks like Spring Boot and Quarkus.

• Architect and lead implementation of scalable open source solutions with distributed computing capabilities using Machine Learning models, running on OpenShift AI.

• Architect and design new features with RAG, RAFT, GraphRAG and InstructLab and their pipelines.

• Collaborate with product owners, program managers, different teams, and engineering managers to analyze and clarify business requirements to implement data models and business logic.

• Mentor, influence, and coach a distributed team of engineers.

• Effectively communicate to stakeholders and project team members to ensure proper visibility of development efforts.

• Review code merge requests from other team members for new features.

• Work with quality engineers to ensure application quality and maintainability.

• Build and deploy applications to Red Hat OpenShift Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), public clouds, i.e., Google Cloud Platform, AWS, etc.

• Ensure non-functional requirements, including performance, scalability, resiliency, maintainability, security, etc., are met according to defined standards.

• Resolve bugs, performance problems, and other issues with production applications.

What will you bring:

• 12+ years of professional Java development experience

• Experience in building native microservices with Java

• Solid object-oriented software development skills

• Understanding of web application infrastructure and fundamentals like REST and HTTP

• Understanding of public cloud concepts and development practices

• Experience with continuous delivery (CD) like build and deploy pipelines like Jenkins, Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) like OpenShift/Kubernetes

• Software development life cycle skills; ability to use standard tools for development on Linux like Maven, Docker and issue tracking systems like Jira

• Knowledge of SQL, NoSQL and vector databases

• Knowledge of RAG, RAFT, GraphRAG for Generative AI use-cases

• Knowledge of InstructLab

• Distributed source control experience like Git, including continuous integration (CI) workflows

• Excellent communication skills, solid written and verbal communication skills in English; ability to communicate effectively in a global team

• Ability to work unsupervised in a fast-paced environment, enthusiastic to learn on your own

The following are considered a plus:

• Passionate about applied innovation and creativity

• Motivated to help others solve problems

• Experience in building Chatbots with Slack, Google Chat, etc.

• Experience in Google Cloud Platform products like Cloud Build, Cloud Run, etc

• Experience in creating architectural diagrams with different tools

About Red Hat

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