Principal Software Engineer - AI Agent Platform (Czech Republic)

Job description

The Red Hat Developer Tools organization is looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join the Kaiden team. Kaiden is an open-source platform for running AI coding agents — Claude Code, Goose, Cursor, OpenCode — in governed, isolated sandboxes. Every agent session runs inside its own container (via Podman) or microVM (via libkrun), while platform engineers control which models, tools, kills, secrets, and MCP servers are permitted through workspace-level governance. Kaiden is built by the team behind Podman Desktop, with over 4 million downloads. The project is an Electron-based TypeScript application with a Svelte UI, structured as a pnpm monorepo with a plugin architecture. Extensions integrate AI model providers (Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, Mistral, OpenAI-compatible endpoints, OpenShift AI, Ollama, RamaLama), Skills providers, MCP server registries, and RAG tooling. The codebase also spans other languages (Go, Rust) for container runtime and sandboxing infrastructure, and integrates with Kubernetes for remote agent execution. The project is Apache-2.0 licensed and developed in the open at [github.com/openkaiden/kaiden](https://github.com/openkaiden/kaiden). The team work...