Principal Software Engineer – IBM z/OS Connectivity at Redwood Software

<p><span style="color: #000000;"><em><strong>OUR MISSION<br></strong></em><strong>At Redwood, we empower our customers with lights-out automation for their mission-critical business processes.</strong></span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="color: #000000;"><em><strong>ABOUT US</strong></em><br>Redwood Software is the leading orchestration platform for the autonomous enterprise, driving business transformation at the lowest total cost of ownership. Redwood empowers organizations to intelligently automate and orchestrate mission-critical business and IT processes across complex ERP, hybrid cloud, data and emerging agentic AI systems. Through its SaaS-first automation fabric—with AI embedded across the automation lifecycle—Redwood accelerates the path to autonomous operations. Backed by 30 years of experience and trusted by more than 50% of the Fortune 50, Redwood helps organizations unlock human potential to focus on innovation, growth and what’s next.</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="color: #000000;"><em><strong>CORE VALUES</strong></em><br>One Team. One Redwood<br>Make Your Own Weather<br>Obsess over Customer Success<br>Work the Problem<br>Be Curious<br>Own the Outcome<br>Respect Each Other</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="color: #000000;"><em><strong>YOUR IMPACT</strong></em><br>As a Software Engineer – Principal, IBM z/OS Connectivity, you will help build a new connectivity agent that extends Redwood RunMyJobs (RMJ) natively onto IBM z/OS, enabling Redwood to support some of the largest enterprise automation environments in the market. You will work on systems-level engineering spanning custom wire protocols, cryptography, and a native platform bridge into JES, RACF/SAF, SMF, TSO, and z/OS UNIX System Services (USS), delivered as a Java agent that integrates with the Redwood platform through clean, versioned extension points. This position is open across levels from Software Engineer to Principal as we build out the team.</span></p> <ul> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Design, develop, test, and maintain native software supporting connectivity and integration with IBM z/OS mainframe environments.</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Build integrations with core mainframe technologies, including C/JNI, JES2/JES3 job submission and monitoring, TSO command execution via background TMP, and SMF-based event monitoring.</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Integrate security and per-user authorization while extending Redwood’s existing identity and credential management capabilities.</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Develop and maintain systems-level capabilities involving custom wire protocols, cryptography, and native z/OS platform integration.</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Troubleshoot complex system-level issues across mainframe, Unix, and Java environments.</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Improve the reliability, performance, security, and scalability of Redwood’s mainframe solutions.</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Partner with product managers, architects, and engineers to translate customer requirements into effective technical solutions.</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Participate in architecture discussions, design reviews, code reviews, testing, and release planning.</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Leverage agentic AI to accelerate codec, testing, and documentation work while independently verifying correctness against authoritative IBM z/OS references.</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Document protocols, security models, and platform prerequisites for field and support teams.</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Validate technical assumptions on live LPARs and contribute to architectural decisions where modern documentation may be limited.</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Contribute to team success through clear communication, shared responsibility for quality, and accountable ownership of goals and delivery commitments in a fast-paced, iterative agile environment.</span></li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="color: #000000;"><em><strong>YOUR EXPERIENCE</strong></em></span></p> <ul> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">10+ years of professional software engineering experience with strong Java 8+ skills; IBM Semeru or z/OS Java experience is a plus.</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Hands-on z/OS systems integration experience, including JES2/JES3, TSO, RACF/ACF2/Top Secret, SMF, and USS.</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Strong working proficiency in C.</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Low-level network protocol experience, including socket programming, custom binary framing, character-encoding conversion, and TLS/keyring security.</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Hands-on experience implementing cryptographic primitives to specification using standard libraries such as Java JCE, including key exchange and symmetric cipher modes, rather than designing cryptographic protocols.</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Strong concurrency and multithreading skills, with experience building resilient, long-running daemon processes.</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Ability to work effectively from primary technical sources, including IBM manuals and RACF/SMF references, rather than relying solely on tutorials or unverified AI-generated output.</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Experience with modern DevOps practices and technologies, including Git, CI/CD, Docker, and Kubernetes.</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Fluency with AI tools in a production engineering environment.</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Strong code judgment, including the ability to identify plausible but incorrect AI-generated recommendations involving specialized mainframe APIs.</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Proficiency in prompting AI tools, combined with the judgment to recognize when a task is too specialized for AI-assisted approaches.</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Ability to maintain an architectural focus, abstracting from individual protocol and bridge details to shared platform-integration designs.</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Experience with workload automation products such as Tidal, CA-7, Control-M, Stonebranch, BMC, or RunMyJobs preferred.</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Experience with Sysplex/Parallel Sysplex clustering or z/OSMF REST APIs preferred.</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Experience with CA-Panvalet, CA-Librarian, or other JCL library tooling preferred.</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Experience with z/OS Assembler preferred, particularly as relevant to future authorized-code or SMF-exit work; this is a specialist, separately scoped area and is not a baseline requirement.</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Mainframe migration or modernization project experience preferred.</span></li> </ul><div class="content-conclusion"><div class="css-1i27f3a"> <div class="css-ey7qxc"> <div class="css-1s1axh3" data-automation-id="jobPostingDescription"> <p><em>If you like growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!</em></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>THE LEGAL BIT</strong><br>Redwood is an equal opportunity employer. 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