Senior Software Engineer / Product Owner

Red Hat • Raleigh, NC

10h • $116,270 - $191,840

About The Position

Red Hat is looking for a Sr. Software Engineer to join our team and grow into the Product Owner (PO) role. This role will support our teams working on the Red Hat Lightspeed Inventory service available on Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console and Red Hat Lightspeed on Premises offerings out of our Raleigh, NC office. Your focus will be on the tactical, day-to-day decision-making for the delivery team, translating the product vision and strategy into prioritized actionable work. Efficiently maximizing the incremental value delivered by the team and focusing the development effort on achieving the highest return on investment. PO is responsible for focusing the delivery team effort to maximize the incremental value delivered to the Customer. The PO operates within Red Hat’s open source and Agile framework, acting as the crucial bridge between strategic product management and the development team's execution. What you bring: Product Backlog Ownership & Execution: Own, maintain, and prioritize the product backlog as the tactical, day-to-day decision-maker, ensuring it aligns with the Product Management roadmap and can react to unexpected work. This includes clearly defining and refining user stories, setting acceptance criteria, and serving as the primary source of requirements for the delivery team. Value Maximization and Delivery: Focus on maximizing the return on investment (ROI) by prioritizing the most strategic items using direct metrics. Formally accept the team's delivery against defined Acceptance Criteria, ensuring artifacts meet all productization requirements and expectations (Definition of Done). Stakeholder Alignment and Communication: Represent all stakeholders (users, customers, open source community, internal teams) to the development team. Ensure the team's vision, plans, and status are transparent to all stakeholders, maintaining ongoing communication across multiple time zones and functional groups. Maintain working relationships with other Product Owners in adjacent technical areas. Agile Team Engagement: Actively participate in all team ceremonies and manage the flow of work through Agile Scrum sprints. Develop an understanding of the customer perspective and mentor associates on customer value and engagement in the open collaborative process. What you will bring: Proven experience as a Product Owner focusing on team execution and delivering incremental value. Demonstrated ability to gather customer input and prioritize work effectively based on those customer needs. Strong understanding of Agile principles, including experience with Scrum methodology. Ability to understand and work with Product Management and other stakeholders on building a product vision for the product-delivery team and its role in a broader product. Demonstrated ability to pursue opportunities to mentor associates within the immediate team and provide constructive feedback. Excellent communication skills, including the ability to present team delivery roadmap to stakeholders or represent the team when needed. 5+ years of experience in a software engineering context designing and developing software solutions. Must be able to track and identify escalated issues impacting the team and carry the issue forward through to completion. Demonstrated experience working effectively across globally distributed, diverse teams and functional groups.

Requirements

• Proven experience as a Product Owner focusing on team execution and delivering incremental value.
• Demonstrated ability to gather customer input and prioritize work effectively based on those customer needs.
• Strong understanding of Agile principles, including experience with Scrum methodology.
• Ability to understand and work with Product Management and other stakeholders on building a product vision for the product-delivery team and its role in a broader product.
• Demonstrated ability to pursue opportunities to mentor associates within the immediate team and provide constructive feedback.
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to present team delivery roadmap to stakeholders or represent the team when needed.
• 5+ years of experience in a software engineering context designing and developing software solutions.
• Must be able to track and identify escalated issues impacting the team and carry the issue forward through to completion.
• Demonstrated experience working effectively across globally distributed, diverse teams and functional groups.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in open source development or contributing to open source communities is beneficial, particularly experience monitoring and incorporating feedback from upstream/downstream open source channels.
• Experience monitoring and incorporating feedback from both internal channels and external open source communication channels is highly beneficial.
• Familiarity with defining Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Indicators (SLIs).
• Experience using prioritization techniques such as WSJF, RICE, or MoSCoW to make informed decisions about priorities.
• Experience working with large features by breaking them down into Epics and user Stories/Tasks.

Responsibilities

• Product Backlog Ownership & Execution: Own, maintain, and prioritize the product backlog as the tactical, day-to-day decision-maker, ensuring it aligns with the Product Management roadmap and can react to unexpected work. This includes clearly defining and refining user stories, setting acceptance criteria, and serving as the primary source of requirements for the delivery team.
• Value Maximization and Delivery: Focus on maximizing the return on investment (ROI) by prioritizing the most strategic items using direct metrics. Formally accept the team's delivery against defined Acceptance Criteria, ensuring artifacts meet all productization requirements and expectations (Definition of Done).
• Stakeholder Alignment and Communication: Represent all stakeholders (users, customers, open source community, internal teams) to the development team. Ensure the team's vision, plans, and status are transparent to all stakeholders, maintaining ongoing communication across multiple time zones and functional groups. Maintain working relationships with other Product Owners in adjacent technical areas.
• Agile Team Engagement: Actively participate in all team ceremonies and manage the flow of work through Agile Scrum sprints. Develop an understanding of the customer perspective and mentor associates on customer value and engagement in the open collaborative process.

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!

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees