Principal Software Engineer - GCP Hosted Control Planes
Red Hat · Raleigh, NC
About this role
Red Hat is hiring a principal-level Principal Engineer in the software engineering function based in Raleigh, NC. The posting calls out experience with GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, LLMs. Compensation is listed at $148,540–$245,050 per year.
- Role
- Principal Engineer
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- principal
- Track
- Tech leadership
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Raleigh, NC
- Posted
- May 15, 2026
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Job description
from Red Hat careersRed Hat Engineering is looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join the GCP Hosted Control Planes (HCP) team. This team builds and operates a managed service that enables organizations to run OpenShift Kubernetes clusters on Google Cloud Platform using HyperShift, hosting multiple Kubernetes control planes on shared GKE infrastructure to reduce cost and operational overhead for customers.
This role sits at the intersection of distributed systems architecture and a new engineering discipline. Our team practices an agent-first development methodology where AI coding agents are a primary mechanism for producing, testing, and maintaining code. Engineers on this team function as harness engineers: they design the environments, constraints, and feedback loops that enable AI agents to do reliable work. As a Principal Engineer, you will not only work within this model but lead its evolution: defining the architectural boundaries agents must respect, designing the documentation architecture that serves as the agent knowledge base, building the enforcement mechanisms (custom linters, structural tests, CI gates) that prevent entropy, and mentoring the team in effective human-agent collaboration patterns.