Red Hat Product Security is looking for a Product Security Developer to join our global Compliance Engineering team
Our Vision: 10X compliance and security activities through automation. We make existing tools easy to use and partner with product teams to build new tools that eliminate manual friction.
Our Mission: Create a strategic integration of tools and processes to enable security and compliance activities at scale—empowering a small team of doers to accomplish what has traditionally taken hundreds of manual analysts
Our Goals
- Partner with engineering product teams and managed service teams to automate evidence collection and remediation, focusing on practical, code-based solutions for certification.
- Lead the adoption of modern development workflows, including AI native coding, to increase the speed and reliability of our open-source security tools.
- Foster a collaborative, high-trust environment where we prioritize shipping working software and tackling complex technical challenges as a team.
What You Will Do (Role & Expectations)
- Design, develop, and maintain security automation solutions, moving projects rapidly from ideation through production validation.
- Build automated evidence-gathering pipelines, ensuring Red Hat services meet rigorous standards without manual intervention.
- Apply a "builder" mindset to create technical solutions that are user-centric, ensuring security tools are intuitive and easily integrated by product teams.
- Take ownership of software at the component level, resolving security issues and contributing directly to upstream projects using high-velocity development practices.
- Refine shared methodologies through GitOps and test-driven development, utilizing AI Native tools to accelerate code reviews and bug detection.
- Share your expertise through clear technical documentation, presentations, or blogs that focus on practical implementation and automation wins.
What You Will Bring
- Execution Orientated: Proven experience building or using tooling with a focus on clearing backlogs and shipping functional features.
- Development Experience: Strong proficiency in a programming language. You should be comfortable writing, testing, and debugging.
- Infrastructure & Containers: Hands-on experience with Linux and modern container technologies (Podman, Kubernetes, or OpenShift).
- CI/CD: Solid experience using and optimizing CI/CD pipelines to ensure automated, reliable software delivery.
- Independence: Ability to work autonomously within a distributed, multicultural team and manage a consistent cadence of contributions.
- AI Proficiency: Familiarity with using AI coding assistants (e.g., Claude,, OpenCode, Cursor) to optimize development process.
- Open Source Contributor: A desire to contribute code and fixes directly to upstream open-source projects.
- Pragmatic Methodology: Experience with GitOps and TDD, with an interest in evolving these workflows using new automation technologies.
- Technical Clarity: The ability to explain complex technical implementations simply and collaborate effectively through peer code reviews.
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. Spread across 40+ countries, our associates work flexibly across work environments, from in-office, to office-flex, to fully remote, depending on the requirements of their role. Red Hatters are encouraged to bring their best ideas, no matter their title or tenure. We're a leader in open source because of our open and inclusive environment. We hire creative, passionate people ready to contribute their ideas, help solve complex problems, and make an impact.
Inclusion at Red Hat
Red Hat’s culture is built on the open source principles of transparency, collaboration, and inclusion, where the best ideas can come from anywhere and anyone. When this is realized, it empowers people from different backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences to come together to share ideas, challenge the status quo, and drive innovation. Our aspiration is that everyone experiences this culture with equal opportunity and access, and that all voices are not only heard but also celebrated. We hope you will join our celebration, and we welcome and encourage applicants from all the beautiful dimensions that compose our global village.
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