Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. IBM Software develops AI-powered, cloud-native products that help organizations address business and technology challenges. The Senior Software Engineer II will lead the design, implementation, operation, and improvement of secure, highly available, large-scale backend systems for Confluent Cloud's multi-tenant compute platform.
Responsibilities
- Own and lead the design and implementation of complex backend services and systems in a cloud-native, microservices-based environment
- Make architecture and technical decisions that balance reliability, scalability, performance, and operability, and clearly communicate the tradeoffs
- Drive projects end to end: from requirements and design through implementation, rollout, and ongoing operation in production
- Improve service reliability and operations by defining SLOs/SLAs, strengthening observability, and participating in on-call as needed
- Collaborate across teams to define APIs, integration points, and data models that keep the platform coherent and evolvable
- Identify and drive platform and productivity improvements (tooling, automation, process) that raise the bar for the broader engineering organization
- Mentor and support other engineers through code reviews, design reviews, and technical guidance, helping grow the team’s capabilities
- Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement, inclusive collaboration, and high technical standards
Skills
- Bachelor's Degree
- 5+ years industry experience designing, building, and supporting backend systems in production with a solid grasp on good software engineering practices such as code reviews, deep focus on quality, and documentation
- Strong knowledge of Python runtime environments (virtual environments, package management, and interpreter configurations)
- Strong programming and algorithmic skills
- Proficiency in a major programming language, e.g. Python, Go, C / C++, Java, etc
- Strong experience running services in a public cloud (AWS, GCP, or Azure), including containers and orchestration (for example, Docker, Kubernetes) and modern cloud native technologies
- Expertise in other Language Runtimes / VMs (JVM/WASM, etc.) a big plus
- A track record of technical leadership: driving projects, influencing architecture, and coordinating work across multiple engineers or teams
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to align stakeholders, explain complex ideas clearly, and drive decisions
- Experience with observability and operational excellence (metrics, logging, tracing, incident response, and postmortems)
- Education in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience
- This job can be performed from anywhere in the US
- 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
- Proven track record of leading the delivery of large-scale, highly available, low latency, high quality systems
- Deep hands-on technical expertise in large scale systems engineering, distributed systems, and any of the container sandboxing technologies
- On-call experience handling critical systems
Benefits
- Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being
- 401(k)
- Cash balance pension plan
- The IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Financial counseling
- Life insurance
- Short & 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 our personalized, AI-driven learning platform
- Industry-recognized certifications to achieve career goals
- Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups
- Giving & volunteer opportunities
- Discounts on retail products, services & experiences
- Hybrid work arrangement
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