About the Job

The Data & AI team is a  highly focused effort to lead digital-first execution and transformation at Red Hat leveraging data strategically for our customers, partners, and associates.

Radical Collaboration: There is no work done in isolation, as such, each team has to strive to collaborate with teams within the group, cross-group, and the communities. You will strive to make these collaborations as seamless as possible using tools, processes, best practices, and your own brand of creative problem-solving.

Continuous Learning: This is a fast paced team and you are expected to be continuously curious, have a can do attitude and be proficient in understanding multiple aspects of the business, continuous improving your skill sets (technical and business) as the industry progresses

Data and AI team is looking for a Engineering Manager to lead the Platform practice for the next generation SaaS based data and AI products. You will interact with product managers, Red Hat Sales, Marketing, Finance teams and data platform and product engineers to deliver a sophisticated data as-a-service platform. You'll coach and develop software engineers as they build the Platform, Infrastructure-as-code components, platform observability, agentic AI capabilities and other software to autonomously manage the environment, and guide problem management resolution (PMR) analysis when things go wrong. You’ll work in a fast-paced globally distributed team while quickly learning new skills and creating ways to consistently meet service-level agreements (SLAs) for our data products.This role requires a leader with a proven record of navigating the complexities of working across multiple organizations, helping define and gain consensus on strategy and direction, and aligning the team(s) toward those end goals.

What you will do

Support engineering team to foster and deliver in an  inner-source manner

Develop, and retain a team of engineers developing and operating Red Hat’s data-as-service platform

Coach engineers on good engineering principles: writing good code, automation, observability, toil reduction, and root cause analysis

Manage high-visibility project delivery, including estimation, schedule, risks, and dependencies

Design processes and communication norms that facilitate coordination across a fast-moving, fast-growing, diverse global team

Lead your team through frequent changes in organization, process, and technology commensurate with a high growth cloud service in a competitive market 

Participate in a periodic 24x7 management escalation on-call rotation

What you will bring

10-12 years of hands on developing and maintaining software.

5+ years experience managing high performing engineering teams

Previous software engineering experience delivering data products, applications, or services on cloud native or hybrid platforms 

Experience with Agile methodologies and working in a DevOps culture with continuous integration / continuous deliveries

Ability to lead distributed, remote teams working across multiple time zones 

Ability to discuss complex technical issues with engineers, product managers, and less-technical stakeholders including customers and senior leaders

Understand and collaborate with compliance teams to make sure Platform and Products are compliant as per regulation.

Experience hiring and developing engineers

Experience in communication with stakeholder and leadership

The following are considered a plus:

Experience with platforms like Kuberentes/OpenShift and Kubernetes Operators, Prometheus, Graphana etc

Experience with Go and Python for developing scaling backend software.

Experience with building full stack applications

Knowledge of SaaS technologies like Snowflake, Fivetran, Astro etc.

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.

Inclusion at Red Hat
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