Red hat Senior Principal Software Engineer 

India, Karnataka 

165763633

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 Python, 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, Python, and frameworks like Spring Boot, Quarkus, LangChain or other frameworks

• 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, InstructLab, and their pipelines

• Develop and optimize retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines using LangChain or other frameworks, and vector databases.

• Build and fine-tune LLMs and AI-driven applications with Python-based frameworks

• 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 and Python development experience

• Experience in building native microservices with Java and Python

• 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 LangChain and/or Python/Java-based AI libraries for GenAI applications

• 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 fine-tuning and deploying LLMs on OpenShift AI

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

• Experience in creating architectural diagrams with different tools