Site Reliability Engineer - Automotive

Red Hat is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer with a passion for installing and maintaining our automotive embedded hardware infrastructure. In this role, you will support the Red Hat In-Vehicle OS (RHIVOS) program. You will partner with development, quality engineering, and release engineering colleagues to support the health and well-being of the embedded hardware infrastructure used for enablement and testing of ARM platforms for use in automotive, real-time and Edge applications. The ideal candidate will possess embedded hardware knowledge and experience working in a data center environment. Successful applicants should reside in the Raleigh, NC area and enjoy working in a secure data center facility in the Triangle Park area. What you will do: + Install, maintain and decommission automotive hardware platforms shared by software engineers working remotely. + Collaborate with remote IT engineers planning, installing and maintaining network infrastructure for automotive platforms. + Collaborate with remote Kernel Engineering, Quality Engineering, Documentation, and Tool Chain teams. + Work with remote Red Hat colleagues and automotive platform vendors bringing up and tuning new embedded platforms. + Participate and collaborate with the open source community, specially the broader upstream Linux community. What you will bring: + A solid understanding of basic electronics principles (e.g. circuits, power, signals), circuit diagrams and BOMs. + Experience installing, maintaining and decommissioning hardware platforms in data center environments. + Experience assembling, repairing and organizing network and power cabling. + Experience debugging network configuration and writing/debugging control and automation scripts. + Familiarity with embedded systems and their ecosystems. + Experience with tools and techniques for remotely monitoring and managing networked devices. + Experience with soldering and crimping tools. + Experience with hardware debugging tools (e.g., JTAG, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers). + Experience with debugging board bring up and Linux kernel issues. + Excellent English verbal and written communication skills. + Ability to work on your own, communicating with remote team members via googleMeet and Slack. + Ability to coordinate and prioritize multiple tasks. + Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail. + Excellent documentation, organization, collaboration and communication skills. Preferred Qualifications + Experience with popular development boards like Raspberry Pi, Arduino, BeagleBone. + Experience working with chip manufacturers, automotive manufactures, automotive tier 1 suppliers. + Experience with Functional Safety concepts. + Experience with Fedora, CentOS and RHEL. The salary range for this position is $96,440.00 - $154,190.00. Actual offer will be based on your qualifications. Pay Transparency Red Hat determines compensation based on several factors including but not limited to job location, experience, applicable skills and training, external market value, and internal pay equity. Annual salary is one component of Red Hatu2019s compensation package. This position may also be eligible for bonus, commission, and/or equity. For positions with Remote-US locations, the actual salary range for the position may differ based on location but will be commensurate with job duties and relevant work experience. 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Created: 2026-02-20