About The Job:

Red Hat Engineering is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the CoreOS team with a focus on building, optimizing, and maintaining the CoreOS and Image Mode (bootc) automation pipelines.

In this role, you will act as a senior individual contributor who designs, implements, and ensures the quality of complex software solutions to meet our customers' needs. You will be part of a distributed agile team, collaborating with other engineers, product managers, and upstream community members to deliver new features for a rapidly changing container orchestration space. This role focuses heavily on robust independent execution, code quality ownership, and pipeline automation, allowing you to develop critical workflow solutions from inception through to adoption.

What will you do?
- Technical Contribution: Independently design, develop, and deliver software solutions for the CoreOS pipeline and bootc subsystems.
- Pipeline Automation: Build, optimize, and maintain automated continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) workflows, focusing heavily on Tekton,



GitHub Actions, and container image building automation.
- Leverage AI Tools: Exercise judgment to identify and resolve moderately complex engineering pipeline constraints by implementing AI-powered agents and workflows (e.g., OpenCode, custom agent skills) to automate non-routine workflows and enhance efficiency.
- Software Quality & Reliability: Take complete ownership of the quality of your code, design automated test cases, analyze defects, and contribute effectively to automated testing frameworks.
- Upstream Collaboration: Act as an active contributor to internal tooling and upstream open-source communities like Fedora, Fedora CoreOS, OKD, and Kubernetes through code and documentation.
- SDLC Execution: Apply and help refine the team's software development lifecycle (SDLC), identifying areas for workflow improvement to ensure predictable feature delivery.
- Agile Participation: Part

📌 Senior Software Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Red Hat
📍 Bengaluru