Product Security Engineer
Company: Red Hat
Location: Washington, DC (Remote)
Salary: $118,720 - $190,040 a year
Type: Full-time
Remote: Yes
Posted: 2026-05-19
About this role
At Red Hat, we connect an innovative community of customers, partners, and contributors to deliver an open source stack of trusted, high-performing solutions. We offer cloud, Linux, middleware, storage, and virtualization technologies, together with award-winning global customer support, consulting, and implementation services. Red Hat is a rapidly growing company supporting more than 90% of Fortune 500 companies.
The Red Hat Product Security Compliance team is seeking a knowledgeable and proactive Product Security Engineer to achieve our security and compliance objectives.The team is growing and we have a big vision particularly as it relates to increasingly complex compliance standards like FedRAMP and burgeoning digital sovereignty laws worldwide. In this role, you should have an excellent ability to solve problems using your in-depth technical understanding of information systems and computing solutions. Be a team player who works and coordinates well with the team.
Red Hat embraces a remote working culture and promotes work flexibility. This team, and many of the people you would work with, are remote and you would be welcome to work from home as well.
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for the security and compliance of systems related to our Sovereign Commercial and FedRAMP environments.
- Comfortable leading technical discussions across multi-functional engineering teams and third party auditors.
- Support the continuous improvement of the Red Hat environments through automation and maturation of processes.
- Support the downstream integration of open-sourced projects; collaborate to develop and implement Red Hat specific capabilities from the upstream.
- Research and analyze new tools, technologies and services for technical suitability within a containerized environment.
- Serve as an evangelist of security and compliance both inside Red Hat and externally, with partners or within the open-source community.
Must Haves:
- Experience supporting systems ob...