Red Hat · 16 hours ago
Principal Product Security Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff
$165K/yr - $272K/yrRed Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, and they are seeking a Principal Product Security Engineer to lead their Portfolio Crypto Team. This role involves acting as the chief architect for Red Hat's cryptographic strategy, ensuring compliance, and driving collaboration across product teams to address evolving cryptographic threats.
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Responsibilities
Serve as Red Hat's senior subject matter expert (SME) on cryptographic strategy, influencing and contributing to upstream communities (e.g., Go, python) and standards bodies (IETF)
Consult with senior leadership and product architects to resolve complex, cross-portfolio dependencies and ensure strategic alignment
Own and evolve the Portfolio’s formal cryptographic policy, defining the standards for algorithm use, key lengths, and protocol implementation across all products
Serve as the central authority for cryptographic compliance strategy, working with the Product teams and Business Unit leaders to align engineering efforts with government and regulatory requirements
Lead the strategic response to future cryptographic inflection points (e.g., new PQC standards, major breaks)
Architect and govern the strategy for a common cryptographic API in conjunction with RHEL Security, enabling product teams to consume crypto services in a standardized, crypto-agile way
Steer collaboration across product teams (OpenShift, Middleware, Ansible, etc.) to gather requirements and drive adoption of centralized, modern cryptographic libraries
Architect and own the long-term strategy for cryptographic discovery, runtime analysis, and transition management within our products and for our customers
Define the high-level requirements for our Cryptographic Bill of Materials (CBOM) and runtime auditing tools, partnering with build and platform teams to create a sustainable solution for tracking crypto use and risk across the portfolio
Qualification
Required
Deep and broad expertise in applied cryptography (PKI, TLS, digital signatures) and core libraries (OpenSSL, NSS, GnuTLS, go)
Expert-level understanding of modern cryptographic challenges and protocols, including Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC)
Proven experience architecting and driving complex, cross-portfolio technical strategy in a large, matrixed organization
Demonstrable experience in authoring, evangelizing, and governing technical security policy, especially related to compliance standards like FIPS
Ability to translate complex cryptographic concepts into actionable plans for engineering, product management, and executive leadership
Preferred
Deep knowledge of HSMs/PKCS#11, hardware-based key protection, and standards body participation
Benefits
Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
Flexible Spending Account - healthcare and dependent care
Health Savings Account - high deductible medical plan
Retirement 401(k) with employer match
Paid time off and holidays
Paid parental leave plans for all new parents
Leave benefits including disability, paid family medical leave, and paid military leave
Additional benefits including employee stock purchase plan, family planning reimbursement, tuition reimbursement, transportation expense account, employee assistance program, and more!
Company
Red Hat
Red Hat is a software company that offers enterprise open-source software solutions. It is a sub-organization of IBM.
Founded in 1993
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
unknown2018-10-28Acquired
1999-08-20IPO
1999-03-09Corporate Round
Leadership Team
Chris Wright
Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President Global Engineering
Andrew Brown
Senior Vice President & Chief Revenue Officer
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