Principal Software Engineer - RHIVOS - Customer Engagement Lead (Ireland)
Red Hat · Waterford City, Ireland
About this role
Red Hat is hiring a principal-level Professional Services Consultant based in Waterford City, Ireland. The posting calls out experience with Python, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD.
- Role
- Professional Services Consultant
- Function
- services
- Level
- principal
- Track
- Tech leadership
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Waterford City, Ireland
- Posted
- May 15, 2026
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Job description
from Red Hat careersRed Hat is leading the revolution of Software Defined Vehicle. In this role, you'll be coordinating work with other engineers, architects, documentarians, product managers, scrum masters, and community members to help Automotive partners create their next-generation platform based on Red Hat In-Vehicle OS. You will become part of the rapidly changing ecosystem, assist partners in designing their automotive on-board architecture and help them understand the value of Open-Source and standardization. Your mission will be to directly assist customers to integrate Linux into their production vehicles.
As a Principal Software Engineer you will act as an expert across a group of technologies in Red Hat In-Vehicle OS, learning the specific needs of our customers and translating this back to the team to help deliver solutions. This role offers the unique opportunity to spend time directly collaborating with partners and customers, providing expert guidance and technical leadership to change the industry.
What you will do:
Periodically engage directly on-site with automotive customers and partners acting as a trusted technical advisor, hands-on low level system issues and performance problem solver and communication bridge between customer’s engineering team and Red Hat’s engineering team. Hybrid work is allowed when there aren't meetings or actual work on site.
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