Director - Software Engineering

About the job

The Red Hat Developer and DevTools Engineering team is looking for a Director to join us. In this role, you will help Red Hat define the future of the open hybrid cloud experience built around Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift. You’ll work with multiple director and vice president-level stakeholders while building an experience that will delight developers and connect them with the rest of the Red Hat portfolio. You’ll need to be a leader with a proven record of navigating the complexities of working across multiple organizations, helping define and gain consensus on strategy and direction, and aligning the teams toward the defined end goals. This is a remote role that will involve managing a global team. Candidates based in the U.S. Central and Eastern Standard Time or Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) time zones are preferred, as that is where most of our associates are located.

What you will do

• Lead a global developer and DevTools-focused team with an experience-driven mindset
• Understand and disseminate company and business organizational strategy into organizational objectives
• Work with stakeholders throughout Red Hat to align on strategy and its implementation
• Create an environment for open source community leadership
• Instill in the team an understanding of our customer needs in sales and support

What you will bring

• Ability to foster a high-performing engineering team at both the leadership and associate levels
• Communication skills and experience in interacting with cross-functional business and medium to large engineering teams
• Understanding of the capabilities of current software development tools and ability to quickly learn new ones including IDEs, developer-focused CLIs, Git, build systems, continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) systems, containers, Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift, Tekton, Istio, Knative, and serverless or Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) technologies
• Motivated with initiative in seeing needs, building functionality, and leading insights for organizational change
• Ability to develop a detailed understanding of our business requirements
• Previous experience with the life cycles of our offerings or delivering on-premises software, client tooling, and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offerings

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About Red Hat

Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver reliable and high-performing Linux, hybrid cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Red Hat helps customers integrate new and existing IT applications, develop cloud-native applications, standardize on our industry-leading operating system, and automate, secure, and manage complex environments. Award-winning support, training, and consulting services make Red Hat a trusted adviser to the Fortune 500. As a strategic partner to cloud providers, system integrators, application vendors, customers, and open source communities, Red Hat can help organizations prepare for the digital future.

Benefits

• 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
• Additional benefits including employee stock purchase plan, family planning reimbursement, tuition reimbursement, transportation expense account, employee assistance program, and more! 

Note: These benefits are only applicable to full time, permanent associates at Red Hat located in the United States.