Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. IBM Software develops AI-powered, cloud-native products that help transform client challenges into business and technology solutions. The company is seeking a Staff Software Engineer II to build and manage Confluent Cloud’s networking fabric, focusing on high-performance network data planes, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and multi-tenancy. The role includes architecting and operationalizing reliable systems, leading technical initiatives and engineers, contributing to open source, and troubleshooting complex multi-cloud environments.
Responsibilities
- Build the software underpinning the mission-critical Confluent Cloud network data plane platform. You will play a crucial role in architecting, designing, developing and operationalizing high performance, scalable, reliable and resilient systems
- Deliver high impact to the business by driving important technical initiatives in areas comprising (but not limited to) networking, cloud infrastructure, and multi-tenancy
- Independently drive execution of software projects as well as technically lead a team of engineers to deliver impact in production with a focus on quality
- Build upon open source software and engage with the upstream community to deliver business impact
- Troubleshoot issues and improve ops for complex technical stack that spans all the 3 clouds and includes microservices, containers, and virtualization
Skills
- • 10+ years of relevant cloud infrastructure/cloud networking experience
- • Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development
- • Experience building and operating large-scale systems
- • Experience leading a team of engineers and working cross-team to deliver complex infrastructure projects
- • Solid understanding of basic systems operations (storage, network, operating systems, etc.)
- • Proficiency in C++, Go, Python, or other statically typed languages
- • Experience/knowledge with public clouds (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
- • Experience building and managing Layer 7 proxies, especially cloud-native proxies such as Envoy
- Master's Degree
- • Open source contributions to CNCF projects
- • Experience with Kubernetes Networking
- • Strong networking background combined with your software engineering experience
- • Education in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience
Benefits
- This job can be performed from anywhere in the US
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