Product Owner C C++ Libraries jobs at Red Hat in United States, City Of Albany

Red Hat is looking for a Product Owner to act as the liaison between a cross-functional engineering team and its stakeholders. You will own and continuously adjust the product-delivery team backlog to react to both short-term business needs and the long-term vision in the Platform Tools area (specifically the C and C++ Libraries teams).

What you will do:

• Take a leadership role in a cross-functional team by defining priorities, ensuring alignment with stakeholders, and driving execution for the C and C++ Libraries teams.

• Act as the primary point of contact between Product Management, Engineering, and similar roles to ensure alignment on priorities and deliverables.

• With the engineering team, split features and epics into stories or tasks.

• Define Acceptance Criteria and ensure that the team understands the “what” to work on.

• Communicate product goals effectively to ensure the team can work autonomously and remain unblocked.

• Provide key information such as delivery plans by acting as an information radiator to the teams and stakeholders.

• Proactively monitor community related (upstream) and product and services related (downstream) communication channels and act as a voice for the team.

• Engage in and ensure effective on-going communication between customers, customer facing teams, and stakeholders and the engineering teams to allow for continuous feedback and improvement.

What you will bring:

• Strength in prioritizing development work while managing product management expectations

• Ability to resolve conflicting priorities and communicate key insights from multiple sources (e.g., product feedback, technical discussions, community input) to stakeholders and engineering teams.

• 3+ years of experience in a software development or product ownership role, preferably in an Agile or Scrum environment.

• Solid communication, presentation, organizational, time management, and interpersonal skills

• Highly self-motivated and proactive in engaging stakeholders to drive clarity and alignment.

• Excellent written and verbal skills in English

• Experience with shared ownership of software by a globally collaborative team

Nice to have:

• Experience with Jira, Bugzilla, GitHub, GitLab or similar (would be a plus)

• Experience with open source development practices

• Knowledge of C and C++ Libraries in general

• Knowledge of software development tools in general.

• Knowledge specifically of any of the following: glibc (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glibc) , GCC’s (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Compiler_Collection) libstdc++ , tzdata (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database) , Boost (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boost_%28C%2B%2B_libraries%29) , TBB (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threading_Building_Blocks) , Autotools (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Autotools) , Make (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_%28software%29) , lexer-parser generators (like flex (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flex_%28lexical_analyser_generator%29) and byacc (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Yacc) ), libffi (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libffi) , and ltrace (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ltrace) .

• Knowledge of ISO C (https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/) and ISO C++ (https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/) technical standards

• Knowledge of ISO C (https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/) and ISO C++ (https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/) working groups, and associated standards body processes.

The salary range for this position is $116,270.00 - $191,840.00. Actual offer will be based on your qualifications.

Pay Transparency

● Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage

● Flexible Spending Account - healthcare and dependent care

● Health Savings Account - high deductible medical plan

● Retirement 401(k) with employer match

● Paid time off and holidays

● Paid parental leave plans for all new parents

● Leave benefits including disability, paid family medical leave, and paid military leave