Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. IBM Software develops AI-powered, cloud-native products and, through Confluent, enables organizations to stream data in near real time. The Senior Software Engineer - Backend will build and operate secure, reliable, scalable backend services for Confluent Cloud’s networking platform, owning projects end to end and collaborating across teams on distributed systems, APIs, reliability, and engineering practices.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate backend services that are secure, reliable, and scalable in a cloud-native environment
- Own features and projects end to end: requirements, design, implementation, testing, rollout, and ongoing improvements
- Work with distributed systems and microservices, with a focus on performance, resiliency, and clear API contracts
- Contribute to service reliability and operations, including monitoring, alerting, and on-call participation where applicable
- Collaborate with partner teams on architecture, data modeling, and integration points across Confluent’s platform
- Write clean, well-tested, and well-documented code, and participate in code reviews that raise the bar for the team
- Help improve engineering practices, tools, and automation to make it easier and safer to ship code
- Contribute to a healthy team culture through clear communication, inclusive collaboration, and a willingness to learn and teach
Skills
- Bachelor's Degree
- 2-5 years of experience building distributed, highly available backend systems in production; experience with cloud infrastructure is a strong plus
- Hands-on experience designing and operating large-scale services with clear API contracts and end-to-end lifecycle ownership
- Solid systems-level understanding of networking, OS, and storage tradeoffs relevant to backend infrastructure
- Proficiency in at least one programming language, such as Go, Java, or C++, with the ability to work effectively in others as needed
- Experience with public cloud and Kubernetes/containerized environments
- A self-starter with the ability to work effectively in teams
- BS, MS in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience
- Some travel may be required based on business demand
- IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship
- Master's Degree
- A networking background combined with your software engineering experience
Benefits
- Remote work arrangement
- Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being
- 401(k)
- Cash balance pension plan
- IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Financial counseling
- Life insurance
- Short- and long-term disability coverage
- Opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs
- 12 paid holidays
- Minimum 56 hours sick time
- 120 hours vacation
- 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy
- Other Paid Care Leave programs
- Paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law
- Training and educational resources on IBM’s personalized, AI-driven learning platform
- Opportunities to obtain industry-recognized certifications
- Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups
- Giving and volunteer opportunities
- Discounts on retail products, services & experiences
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