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How Red Hat hires

Truth index
A 92/100
Median time to fill
25 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
27%
Reposted roles
9%

Red Hat scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 11 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 27% have gone stale and 9% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 25 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

Overview

Red Hat is an American open source software company founded in 1993 that proved enterprises would pay for support, certification and long-term maintenance of software they could otherwise download for free. Its portfolio centres on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the OpenShift Kubernetes platform, Ansible automation and middleware, all sold as subscriptions rather than licences. Acquired by IBM in 2019 for thirty-four billion dollars and run as a separate unit, it remains the reference point for how open source software is commercialised at enterprise scale.

News

News redhat.com 2 months ago
Operationalizing agentic AI: The Day 0-2 blueprint for enterprise infrastructure
Learn how Red Hat AI's platform supports bring your own agent (BYOA), providing operationalization for agent frameworks without code changes.
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News redhat.com 3 months ago
Why self-hosted inference is essential: Building a reliable, sovereign inference layer
Learn about Red Hat's approach to self-hosted inference with vLLM, addressing the reliability gap between open-weight models and hosted frontier models for agentic workloads.
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News Red Hat Developer 3 months ago
Dependency analytics 1.0: AI coding with supply chain security
Learn how to protect your codebase from security vulnerabilities introduced by AI agents with Red Hat dependency analytics 1.0, an open source extension for VS Code and other editors.
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News Red Hat Developer 4 months ago
iSCSI vs. NVMe/TCP: The ultimate storage showdown for Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization
Discover the tangible performance differences between iSCSI and NVMe/TCP in a Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization environment. Learn how NVMe/TCP offers lower latency, higher IOPS, and faster VM provisioning times in this comprehensive comparison.
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News Red Hat Customer Portal 4 months ago
RHSB-2026-006 Supply chain compromise of @redhat-cloud-services npm packages
Access Red Hat's knowledge, guidance, and support through your subscription.
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Mini Shai-Hulud "Miasma: The Spreading Blight" Hits @redhat-cloud-services: Multiple Packages at Risk
The attacker compromised the @redhat-cloud-services GitHub Actions OIDC trusted publisher to ship [email protected] with a Mini Shai-Hulud worm. The same…
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News redhat.com 4 months ago
Fragnesia and friends: When page cache vulnerabilities keep coming back
A rapid wave of AI-driven security vulnerabilities shows how chasing individual CVEs can be a losing battle. Learn how Red Hat's defense-in-depth strategy works to block exploit chains like Fragnesia, Copy-Fail, DirtyDecrypt, and others.
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News redhat.com 5 months ago
Project Lightwell: Securing the open source supply chain
A subscription-based offering from IBM and Red Hat that helps organizations move from vulnerability discovery to safer remediation with signed, backported fixes.
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Press release redhat.com 5 months ago
IBM and Red Hat Commit $5 Billion to Redefine the Future of Open Source in the AI Era
IBM and Red Hat launch Project Lightwell, a trusted enterprise clearing house for securing the open source software supply chain.
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News redhat.com 5 months ago
A decade of open innovation: Red Hat continues to scale the open hybrid cloud with Microsoft
More than 10 years ago, Red Hat began a collaboration with Microsoft rooted in a simple but powerful recognition: enterprise customers need trusted, interoperable platforms that offer true choice.
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Red Hat over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
222
Postings analysed
231
Stack modernity
79/100AI adopter
Languages
Python31%
Java13%
Go10%
Bash8%
Frameworks & libraries
PyTorch4%
Ray4%
TensorFlow3%
CUDA2%
Databases
Snowflake1%
Oracle1%
PostgreSQL1%
Amazon Redshift<1%
Cloud & platforms
Linux100%
Kubernetes100%
AWS11%
Azure10%
AI & ML
LLM4%
PEFT2%
Granite1%
Llama<1%
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Full Red Hat tech stack 222 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$205k
Typical range
$73k – $533k
Open positions
20
20 Jobs
Junior 5%
Middle 15%
Senior 35%
Staff 5%
Architect 40%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Junior 1 $123k $123k
Middle 3 $135k $134k – $154k
Senior 7 $215k $73k – $365k
Staff 1 $180k $180k
Architect 8 $241k $190k – $533k
Highest paying role Director, Specialist Solution Architecture Global Lightwell Leader $533k
Normalized to USD per year

Products

Middleware and Integration
Application runtimes, messaging and integration products descended from JBoss and related projects. They sit underneath a large amount of enterprise Java that organisations are unwilling or unable to rewrite.
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Red Hat AI
Model serving and inference tooling built on OpenShift and the vLLM project. It targets enterprises that want to run open models on their own infrastructure rather than call a commercial model endpoint.
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Ansible Automation Platform
Configuration management and infrastructure automation used across servers, networks and cloud. Its readable playbook format is why it spread among operations teams who would not have adopted a programming-heavy alternative.
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OpenShift
A Kubernetes platform packaged with developer tooling, security defaults and a supported upgrade path. It targets organisations that want Kubernetes without assembling and maintaining the surrounding stack themselves.
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux
The commercially supported Linux distribution used across enterprise and government infrastructure. Customers pay for a decade of guaranteed patching and hardware certification, which is what actually distinguishes it from the free distributions built on the same code.
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People

Bob Young
Co-founder
Bob Young co-founded the company in 1993 and led it through its 1999 public offering. He argued early that the value in open source lay in support and assurance rather than in the code itself.
Marc Ewing
Co-founder
Marc Ewing created the original Red Hat Linux distribution that gave the company its name. He merged his project with Young's business to form the company.
Matt Hicks
President and Chief Executive Officer
Matt Hicks has led the company since 2022 after running products and technologies. He joined as an engineer and has spent most of his career there.
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Growth

Hiring Momentum
92/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
107
92 opened / 75 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
26 days
faster than 46% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~8 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Solutions
17% ▲
Backend
15% ▼
DevOps
14% ▼
Sales
9% ▲
Marketing
7%
Product
6% ▼
Actively hiring for Solutions (+18 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
New location: Bogotá Sep 2026
New location: Lima Sep 2026
New location: Mexico Sep 2026
New location: Colombia Sep 2026
Added Shift-Left Security to stack Sep 2026
Added Shift-Left to stack Sep 2026
Added CIS Benchmarks to stack Sep 2026
Added AIOps to stack Sep 2026
Added ETL/ELT to stack Sep 2026
Added Amazon Redshift to stack Sep 2026
New location: Rome Sep 2026
New location: Milan Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
33
Hiring now
23
Countries
23
Busiest office
Raleigh
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Somerville United States
HQ
Raleigh United States
Regional office
Contact us
25 open roles 44 posted in 90 days 40% engineering 12% remote $186k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Early Careers, Sales
100 E. Davie Street, Raleigh, NC 27601
seen since Jul 2026 company site, job postings
Singapore Singapore
Engineering / R&D
Singapore
17 open roles 21 posted in 90 days 35% engineering
hires for Solutions, AI/ML, Early Careers
seen since Jul 2026 company site, job postings
Tokyo Japan
Plant / site
Tokyo
13 open roles 18 posted in 90 days 23% engineering 8% remote
hires for Solutions, Marketing, DevOps
seen since May 2026 company site, job postings
Boston United States
Regional office
Boston
11 open roles 16 posted in 90 days 36% engineering 27% remote $303k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Solutions, Early Careers
seen since Aug 2026 job postings
Melbourne Australia
Sales office
Melbourne
8 open roles 8 posted in 90 days 13% remote
hires for Sales, Solutions, Marketing
seen since Sep 2026 job postings
Sydney Australia
Sales office
Sydney
7 open roles 7 posted in 90 days
hires for Sales, Solutions, Marketing
seen since Sep 2026 job postings
Canberra Australia
Regional office
Remote Australia
5 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 20% engineering 20% remote
hires for DevOps, Management, Sales
seen since Apr 2026 job postings
Lowell United States
Engineering / R&D
3 open roles 5 posted in 90 days 100% engineering $123k Avg Salary
hires for Backend
seen since Aug 2026
Tysons United States
Regional office
Tysons Corner
3 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 33% engineering $215k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Early Careers, Solutions
seen since Sep 2026 job postings
Bengaluru India
Bangalore - Carina
2 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 100% engineering
hires for Backend, Analytics
seen since Aug 2026 job postings
Auckland New Zealand
Auckland - MSO
2 open roles 2 posted in 90 days
hires for Finance, Solutions
seen since Aug 2026 job postings
Durham United States
2 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 50% engineering
hires for Backend, Early Careers
seen since Sep 2026
Lima Peru
Lima - MSO
2 open roles 2 posted in 90 days
hires for Finance, Sales
seen since Sep 2026 job postings
Waterford Ireland
1 open roles 13 posted in 90 days
hires for Early Careers
seen since Sep 2026
Puteaux France
Regional office
Puteaux
1 open roles 4 posted in 90 days
hires for Sales
seen since Aug 2026 company site, job postings
Mumbai India
Mumbai
1 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 100% engineering
hires for DevOps
seen since Aug 2026 job postings
Dublin Ireland
Waterford City
1 open roles 3 posted in 90 days
hires for Early Careers
seen since Sep 2026 job postings
Amsterdam Netherlands
Regional office
Amsterdam - MSO
1 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 100% remote
hires for Customer Success
seen since Aug 2026 company site, job postings
Jakarta Indonesia
Jakarta - MSO
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days
hires for Marketing
seen since Jul 2026 job postings
Brasília Brazil
Brasilia - MSO
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days
hires for Sales
seen since Sep 2026 job postings
Milan Italy
Rome
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days
hires for Marketing
seen since Sep 2026 job postings
Rome Italy
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days
hires for Marketing
seen since Sep 2026
Bogotá Colombia
Bogota
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days
hires for Sales
seen since Sep 2026 job postings
Mexico City Mexico
Regional office
2 posted in 90 days
seen since Jul 2026 company site
London United Kingdom
Regional office
2 posted in 90 days
seen since Aug 2026 company site
Dubai United Arab Emirates
Regional office
2 posted in 90 days
seen since Aug 2026 company site
Buenos Aires Argentina
Regional office
1 posted in 90 days
seen since May 2026 company site
Brno Czech Republic
Regional office
2 posted in 90 days
seen since Aug 2026 company site
Madrid Spain
Regional office
2 posted in 90 days
seen since Aug 2026 company site
Seoul South Korea
Regional office
1 posted in 90 days
seen since Aug 2026 company site
Bangkok Thailand
Regional office
seen since Jun 2026 company site
Taipei Taiwan
Regional office
1 posted in 90 days
seen since Sep 2026 company site
Earlier presence
New Delhi, India 4 open roles · last posting Sep 2026
Munich, Germany 3 open roles · last posting Sep 2026
Pune, India 3 open roles · last posting Sep 2026
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 2 open roles · last posting Aug 2026
Frankfurt am Main, Germany 2 open roles · last posting Aug 2026
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 2 open roles · last posting Sep 2026
São Paulo, Brazil 1 open roles · last posting Aug 2026
Zurich, Switzerland 1 open roles · last posting Aug 2026
Kolkata, India 1 open roles · last posting Sep 2026

Jobs

≈ $108k – $255k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • 8+ years exp • Canberra
Python
Bash
Ansible
Red Hat
OpenShift
GitLab CI
CI/CD
GitOps
ArgoCD
Jenkins
Kubernetes
Tekton
Linux
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≈ $56k – $130k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • 10+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Sydney • Melbourne
Red Hat
Kubernetes
Linux
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≈ $36k – $78k per year (Estimated) • Remote (Italy) • Full-Time • Italy • Spain
Red Hat
OpenShift
Kubernetes
OpenStack
Linux
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$172k – $275k per year • Equity • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • United States
Red Hat
Kubernetes
Linux
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≈ $128k – $254k per year (Estimated) • Remote (EMEA) • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • United Kingdom • Ireland
Fine-tuning
AI Agents
LLM Guardrails
Edge AI
DevOps
Red Hat
OpenShift
Kubernetes
Linux
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≈ $27k – $60k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • 8+ years exp • Bengaluru
Python
Rust
Red Hat
CI/CD
Kubernetes
KVM
QEMU
Linux
Management
Agile
Scrum
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≈ $70k – $171k per year (Estimated) • Remote (Switzerland) • Full-Time • Switzerland
Ansible
Red Hat
OpenShift
CI/CD
Kubernetes
Linux
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$113k – $154k per year • Hybrid • 3+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Raleigh
Python
Copilot
Cursor
Claude Code
KServe
DevOps
Red Hat
OpenShift
Azure
CI/CD
AWS
Kubernetes
AIOps
Linux
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$178k – $215k per year • Hybrid • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Tysons
Python
Go
Bash
Flask
DevOps
Red Hat
OpenShift
Podman
Kubernetes
Linux
Management
Agile
Apply
Hybrid • Full-Time • Tokyo
Python
Go
JavaScript
Java
Node JS
Ansible
Red Hat
OpenShift
GitHub Actions
GitLab CI
CI/CD
Jenkins
Kubernetes
Shift-Left
Tekton
Linux
Cybersecurity
CIS Benchmarks
Shift-Left Security
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≈ $43k – $112k per year (Estimated) • Remote (Brazil) • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Brazil
Ansible
Red Hat
OpenShift
Podman
Azure
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Amazon EKS
Azure AKS
Linux
Management
Agile
Scrum
Waterfall
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≈ $96k – $211k per year (Estimated) • Remote (Canada) • Full-Time • Canada
Ansible
Red Hat
OpenShift
Kubernetes
Linux
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Financials

Total raised
$2.4M
Latest round
Grant
Funding rounds
5
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Grant 2025 $466k Details
Grant 2023 $277k Details
Grant 2023 $518k Details
Grant 2019 $471k Details
Grant 2015 $641k Details