Senior Software Engineer -Llama Stack Operator- (Ireland)
Red Hat Waterford, County Waterford, Ireland
Job Summary
At Red Hat, our commitment to open source innovation extends beyond our products - it’s embedded in how we work and grow. Red Hatters embrace change – especially in our fast-moving technological landscape – and have a strong growth mindset. That's why we encourage our teams to proactively, thoughtfully, and ethically use AI to simplify their workflows, cut complexity, and boost efficiency. This empowers our associates to focus on higher-impact work, creating smart, more innovative solutions that solve our customers' most pressing challenges.
Red Hat’s Global Engineering team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Agentic and AI Engineering Tools team to develop a Kubernetes/OpenShift Operator and associated software for orchestrating deployment of Llama Stack. In this role, you’ll contribute directly to Red Hat’s rapidly growing AI/ML family of products and will be responsible for the design, development, and refinement of software adding features that enables Llama Stack to achieve Enterprise readiness.
What You Will Do
* Collaborate with Staff Engineers, Engineering, Product Management, and User Experience to define customer needs and use cases.
* Collaborate with Quality Engineers to develop and implement comprehensive unit, integration, and end-to-end tests to guarantee the reliability and performance in the upstream project, maintaining CI/CD workflows in GitHub, and ensuring downstream quality.
* Participate in AI-assisted code reviews, utilizing tools that provide real-time feedback, identify potential bugs, security vulnerabilities, and adherence to coding standards, contributing to a more thorough and efficient review process.
* Proactively utilize AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code) for code generation, auto-completion, and intelligent suggestions to accelerate development cycles and enhance code quality.
* Create and maintain clear, concise upstream technical documentation including API references and user guides and collaborating with our internal tech writers to create robust downstream documentation.
What You Will Bring
* 7 to 10 years of advanced Kubernetes and Go development experience,
* Advanced knowledge designing robust and scalable software used in highly scaled and performant Distributed Systems
* Advanced knowledge developing Kubernetes/OpenShift Operators and operational knowledge building/deploying containers.
* Experience developing Kubernetes Controllers and kubebuilder
* Advanced knowledge creating automation for GitHub, using GitHub Actions or related continuous integration tools.
* Experience developing, deploying or maintaining On-prem or Cloud Infrastructure
* Advanced knowledge developing unit, functional, and end-to-end (E2E) test cases and automation
* Ability to quickly learn and use new tools and technologies.
The Following Will Be Considered a Plus
* Experience with Security (FIPS, FedRAMP, CVE Management), Observability, Performance or Scale
* Understanding of DevOps methodology, scrum, and/or Jira.
* Experience with AI and Machine Learning platforms, tools, and frameworks, such as LlamaStack, LangChain, PyTorch, LLaMA.cpp, vLLM, LangGraph, and Kubeflow.
* Bachelor's degree in computer science or related discipline.
About Red Hat
Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver high-performing Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies.
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