Red hat Distinguished Engineer 

United States, North Carolina, Durham 

761433455

What you will do

• Represent Ansible as a technical leader in strategic upstream communities

• Engage in cross-portfolio technical strategy with Red Hat and IBM peers

• Support, advise, and mentor senior technical leaders (architects and staff engineers) within the Ansible engineering team

• Partner with Ansible Engineering and Business Unit leadership to drive product and organizational priorities

• Act as a thought leader across Ansible’s technologies and solutions, steering collaboration on architecture and dependencies with other teams while demonstrating an understanding of the consequences of technology choices

• Have a strong understanding of the business and customers to help shape broad product direction with other product teams

• Connect product roadmap to the overall company strategy to help anchor contributors to the company mission

• Contribute to the architecture and design of Ansible Automation Platform

• Evaluate the benefits and risks of technical solutions to customer needs and communicate those evaluations to stakeholders

• Support customer success through communicating the product portfolio, longer term technical vision, customer enablement and briefing sessions, and customer/field feedback sessions.

• Create technical and architectural documentation to explain and share design decisions and policies

• Work with open source communities to evaluate new AI technologies and create examples of integrations between their technology and Ansible

• Present externally at related technology conferences and internally within communities of practice

What you will bring

• Significant experience working with upstream communities

• Strong software architecture background

• Passion for quickly learning and using new tools and technologies

• An agile, flexible, and collaborative mindset

• Experience with cross-portfolio and / or cross-company collaborative technical design

• Familiarity with Kubernetes architecture and containers

• Experience designing for distributed systems

• Experience with development for public cloud services (AWS, GCP, Azure)

• Ability to work as a self-directed technical leader for the organization

• Experience in growing the next level of technical leadership through coaching and mentoring

The salary range for this position is $192,400.00 - $327,110.00. 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