Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. IBM is hiring a Principal Software Engineer to build and operate the networking data plane platform for Confluent Cloud. The role focuses on architecting scalable, reliable cloud networking systems, leading technical initiatives and engineering teams, and improving operations across 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 architecture, roadmap, execution of software projects as well as technically lead a team of engineers to deliver impact in production with a focus on quality
- Engage with product and cloud providers to innovate and solve business problems using technical input
- 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
- 12+ years of relevant cloud infrastructure/cloud networking experience
- Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development
- Experience driving vision and technical roadmap as an architect in a large sized platforms or infrastructure team
- 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
- Bachelor's Degree
- 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
- Eligible employees may have access to healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being.
- Eligible employees may have access to financial programs such as 401(k), cash balance pension plan, the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs.
- Eligible employees may have access to generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs.
- Eligible employees may have access to paid family leave benefits where required by applicable law.
- Eligible employees may have access to training and educational resources on IBM’s personalized, AI-driven learning platform, where IBMers can grow skills and obtain industry-recognized certifications to achieve their career goals.
- Eligible employees may have access to diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences.
- Remote work arrangement; this job can be performed from anywhere in the US.
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