Principal Software Maintenance Engineer New
As a Principal Software Maintenance Engineer at Red Hat, you will lead efforts in maintaining and sustaining Red Hat's enterprise software products, ensuring long-term reliability and customer satisfaction. Your responsibilities will include triaging, diagnosing, and resolving complex software defects across multiple product versions, as well as developing and applying patches to production environments. You will work closely with development, QE, and support teams to prioritize critical fixes and drive resolution of high-impact issues. The role requires deep expertise in root cause analysis, backporting fixes, and ensuring software quality throughout the product lifecycle. You will also mentor team members, influence maintenance strategies, and contribute to process improvements across the engineering organization.