Red hat Principal Software Engineer 

United States, Massachusetts, Boston 

728845599

Primary Job Responsibilities

• Champions product vision and strategy across the portfolio and in partnership with architects, tech leads, and management toward enabling execution for teams and maximizing customer impact.

• Serve as product ambassador internally and externally, sharing knowledge and answering questions.

• Enables and unblocks teams in planning work, accepting work, managing risks, managing scope, and negotiating prioritization trade-offs.

• Facilitates product roadmaps through the unified backlog, linkage to team backlogs, grooming of the backlogs, and ceremonies to drive alignment between product and engineering.

• Owns the definition of the backlog through definition of done, acceptance criteria, strategic value, product requirements, and more.

• Represents work breakdown through the full definition of done across various stakeholders (dependent work, QE, docs, and more).

• Helps facilitate the management of product-related data and success metrics for priorities and for product feedback loops.

• Drives effective management of status through automation, reporting, and ceremonies.

• Promotes continuous improvement across teams in practice toward responsible planning and accountability.

• Ensures alignment between key stakeholders; works with them to communicate plans, changes, and drive to ensure teams can benefit from automated reporting and health tracking, and drive tradeoff conversations when necessary.

Required Skills

• Proven experience in product development.

• In-depth knowledge of agile methodology for project management.

• Advanced use of Atlassian Jira for team work management.

• Understanding of business value related to features and functions.

• Demonstrated aptitude and eagerness to learn from a new environment and make an impact quickly.

• Clear and concise written and verbal communication, presentation, and leadership skills.

• Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Ability to effectively manage conflicting needs of stakeholders.

• Passion for collaboration.

The salary range for this position is $163,420.00 - $269,640.00. 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