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 complex business challenges and drive digital transformation. The Staff Software Engineer will build and operate Confluent Cloud’s network data plane, leading the design of high-performance, scalable, reliable, and secure distributed systems while driving technical initiatives and mentoring engineers.
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 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
- • 8+ years of relevant cloud infrastructure/cloud networking experience
- • Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development
- • Experience building and operating large-scale systems
- • 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
- Opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact on a global scale
- Tools and opportunities to advance your career
- This job can be performed from anywhere in the US
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