Principal Software Engineer-Agentic AI & Orchestration (Golang/Python/Cloud/Kubernetes)

Overview

The Data And AI team is a highly focused effort to lead digital-first execution and transformation at Red Hat leveraging data & AI strategically for our customers, partners, and associates. The engineering team is focused on building and delivering strategic AI agents & MCP Servers built on our Data & AI platform, designed to augment human capabilities, accelerate business workflows, and scale operations across the enterprise.

In this role, you'll take ownership of end-to-end backend and orchestration systems, champion best practices, and deliver impactful, production-grade models. You’ll work autonomously, mentor others, and collaborate with data, engineering, and product teams to bring AI & agentic capabilities into production

What you will do?

• Architectural Leadership: Lead the implementation of scalable, distributed computing solutions designed to serve Agentic AI and ensure seamless integration with the Red Hat product portfolio.
• MAS Design: Develop orchestration layers, state machines, tool registries, and resilient routing policies with safe fallbacks for Multi Agent systems
• Demonstrated experience with Microservices and RDBMS and NoSQL Databases.
• Metrics driven and obsessed with NFR’s (Performance, Scalability, security, et al) and recommending/developing toolsets for the same.
• Strong experience of RESTful API design and development
• Innovation: Proactively explore emerging AI technologies to identify opportunities for incorporating new capabilities into software development workflows and tooling.
• Engineering Excellence: Drive AI integration within the software development lifecycle (SDLC), sharing successful experiment use cases with stakeholders to foster broader innovation.
  
  

• 7+ years of relevant software engineering experience
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• Agentic Frameworks: Proven experience building agents and tooling frameworks; deep PydanticAI, or similar state-management libraries.
• Experience with Distributed systems and microservices architecture.
• Systems Expertise: Expert-level proficiency in Python or Go, with a specific focus on building resilient, asynchronous distributed systems.
• Infrastructure: Solid experience with containers and orchestration via OpenShift or Kubernetes.
• AI/MLOps: Experience with GitOps, automation pipelines, and managing the AI/ML lifecycle in production environments.
• Cloud Computing experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or IBM Cloud.
  
  

• A history of open-source contributions or active participation in the AI/ML community (GitHub, Research, or Upstream).
• Core AI Engineering: Experience implementing sophisticated RAG, long-term memory systems, semantic caches, and vector databases.
• Evaluation & Safety: Direct experience with Agent Evaluation (Eval) frameworks (measuring success rates/hallucinations) and implementing Guardrails & Governance (preventing prompt injection/infinite loops).
  
  

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