senior software engineering Backend Engineer ic · Posted May 15, 2026
$116,270 – $191,840
USD per year

About this role

Red Hat is hiring a senior-level Backend Engineer in the software engineering function based in Raleigh, NC. The posting calls out experience with GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, Prompt Engineering. Compensation is listed at $116,270–$191,840 per year.

Role
Backend Engineer
Function
software engineering
Level
senior
Track
Individual contributor
Employment
Full-time
Location
Raleigh, NC
Posted
May 15, 2026

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Job description

from Red Hat careers

Red Hat Engineering is looking for Senior Software Engineers 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 is not a traditional software engineering role. 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, while applying deep technical judgment to specify intent, review output, and maintain architectural integrity. You will write code, but you will also spend significant time crafting the documentation, linters, structural tests, and CI gates that keep both human and agent contributors producing high-quality, architecturally consistent work.

You'll work as part of a distributed engineering team, contributing to a platform built on Go, Kubernetes, GKE, Terraform, Tekton, and ArgoCD. You'll participate in open source communities and help deliver enterprise-grade managed Kubernetes at scale.

What you will do

  • Design and implement features, bug fixes, and infrastructure automation for the GCP HCP platform using Go and Kubernetes
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