Introduction At IBM Software, we transform client challenges into solutions. Building the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native products that shape the future of business and society. Our legacy of innovation creates endless opportunities for IBMers to learn, grow, and make an impact on a global scale. Working in Software means joining a team fueled by curiosity and collaboration. You'll work with diverse technologies, partners, and industries to design, develop, and deliver solutions that power digital transformation. With a culture that values innovation, growth, and continuous learning, IBM Software places you at the heart of IBM's product and technology landscape. Here, you'll have the tools and opportunities to advance your career while creating software that changes the world. With Confluent, data doesn't sit still. We put information in motion, streaming in near real time so organizations can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them. Your Role and Responsibilities About the Role: The Confluent Cloud Platform based on Apache Kafka is the leading Cloud Native Platform as a Service for streaming data infrastructure, but this is just the beginning. We are building a PaaS enabling customer around the globe to deliver streaming applications. What You Will Do: Design, implement and maintain Golang infrastructure services (typically implemented as Kubernetes operators) to deliver the Confluent cloud foundations to the wider engineering organization Terraform, Datadog, Prometheus and a strong command of Linux, public cloud and networking should come as standard - though Golang software engineering will be your primary focus As a Confluent Cloud Infrastructure Software Engineer, you will be working alongside the rest of the Confluent engineers to build our PaaS product You, and the rest of the team, will be responsible for the availability, performance, monitoring, emergency response, and capacity planning of the Confluent cloud If you love the hum of big data systems covering 10,000's of instances, thinking about how to make them run as smoothly and securely as possible, and want to have a big influence on the architecture plus operational design points of this new product, then you will fit right in Required Skills What You Will Bring: BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience 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 (disk, network, operating systems, etc) A self-starter with the ability to work effectively in teams Proficiency in Go, Python, C++, or other statically typed languages Experience/knowledge with public clouds (AWS, Azure or GCP) Preferred Skills What Gives You an Edge: Experience with Golang is advantageous Experience using Apache Kafka is a big plus Additional Details For additional information about location requirements, please discuss with the recruiter following submission of your application.
13/11/2026
Full time
Introduction At IBM Software, we transform client challenges into solutions. Building the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native products that shape the future of business and society. Our legacy of innovation creates endless opportunities for IBMers to learn, grow, and make an impact on a global scale. Working in Software means joining a team fueled by curiosity and collaboration. You'll work with diverse technologies, partners, and industries to design, develop, and deliver solutions that power digital transformation. With a culture that values innovation, growth, and continuous learning, IBM Software places you at the heart of IBM's product and technology landscape. Here, you'll have the tools and opportunities to advance your career while creating software that changes the world. With Confluent, data doesn't sit still. We put information in motion, streaming in near real time so organizations can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them. Your Role and Responsibilities About the Role: The Confluent Cloud Platform based on Apache Kafka is the leading Cloud Native Platform as a Service for streaming data infrastructure, but this is just the beginning. We are building a PaaS enabling customer around the globe to deliver streaming applications. What You Will Do: Design, implement and maintain Golang infrastructure services (typically implemented as Kubernetes operators) to deliver the Confluent cloud foundations to the wider engineering organization Terraform, Datadog, Prometheus and a strong command of Linux, public cloud and networking should come as standard - though Golang software engineering will be your primary focus As a Confluent Cloud Infrastructure Software Engineer, you will be working alongside the rest of the Confluent engineers to build our PaaS product You, and the rest of the team, will be responsible for the availability, performance, monitoring, emergency response, and capacity planning of the Confluent cloud If you love the hum of big data systems covering 10,000's of instances, thinking about how to make them run as smoothly and securely as possible, and want to have a big influence on the architecture plus operational design points of this new product, then you will fit right in Required Skills What You Will Bring: BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience 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 (disk, network, operating systems, etc) A self-starter with the ability to work effectively in teams Proficiency in Go, Python, C++, or other statically typed languages Experience/knowledge with public clouds (AWS, Azure or GCP) Preferred Skills What Gives You an Edge: Experience with Golang is advantageous Experience using Apache Kafka is a big plus Additional Details For additional information about location requirements, please discuss with the recruiter following submission of your application.
Introduction At IBM Software, we transform client challenges into solutions. Building the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native products that shape the future of business and society. Our legacy of innovation creates endless opportunities for IBMers to learn, grow, and make an impact on a global scale. Working in Software means joining a team fueled by curiosity and collaboration. You'll work with diverse technologies, partners, and industries to design, develop, and deliver solutions that power digital transformation. With a culture that values innovation, growth, and continuous learning, IBM Software places you at the heart of IBM's product and technology landscape. Here, you'l have the tools and opportunities to advance your career while creating software that changes the world. Your Role and Responsibilities WarpStream is an Apache Kafka compatible data streaming platform built directly on top of object storage with zero local disks. It's delivered to customers as a BYOC-style offering. The WarpStream team is responsible for this product offering from top to bottom, and as a Senior Engineer you'll do everything from working on the storage engine running in the Agents, improving the scalability of our multi-tenant control plane, implementing new features like transactions, active-active multi-regions clusters, and even write some HTML/Javascript for our developer console. We're a small team of < 15 engineers, so you'll be expected to work across the entire stack from bashing bits at the network level to making sure our UI provides a great developer experience. You will have an opportunity to solve complex distributed systems problems at scale. You will build services that can operate across different cloud service providers like AWS, GCP, and Azure. You'll be on-call for all of it. The WarpStream team is fully remote and geographically distributed, currently we have engineers in: Spain, France, Canada, Ireland, and the USA. What You Will Do: Independently drive execution of complex technical projects end to end. Build mission-critical backend services that deliver value to our customers. You will play a crucial role in architecting, designing, developing and operationalizing high performance, scalable, reliable and resilient services. Troubleshoot and debug technical issues inside a deep and complex technical stack that includes microservices, containers, and virtualization. Ensure operational readiness of the services and meet the availability and performance SLA commitments to our customers. Required Skills 4+ years industry experience designing, building, scaling 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 programming and algorithmic skills. Proficiency in a major programming language, e.g. Java, Go, C / C++, Python, etc Deep curiosity and enthusiasm for distributed systems and storage systems Strong focus on project delivery and communication skills Experience in driving operational excellence for large production services A strong sense of customer centricity, teamwork, technical leadership and mentorship and are excited about team and company success Preferred Skills Proven track record of delivering large-scale, highly available, high quality systems Hands-on technical expertise in large scale systems engineering or distributed systems On-call experience handling critical systems Additional Details For additional information about location requirements, please discuss with the recruiter following submission of your application.
13/11/2026
Full time
Introduction At IBM Software, we transform client challenges into solutions. Building the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native products that shape the future of business and society. Our legacy of innovation creates endless opportunities for IBMers to learn, grow, and make an impact on a global scale. Working in Software means joining a team fueled by curiosity and collaboration. You'll work with diverse technologies, partners, and industries to design, develop, and deliver solutions that power digital transformation. With a culture that values innovation, growth, and continuous learning, IBM Software places you at the heart of IBM's product and technology landscape. Here, you'l have the tools and opportunities to advance your career while creating software that changes the world. Your Role and Responsibilities WarpStream is an Apache Kafka compatible data streaming platform built directly on top of object storage with zero local disks. It's delivered to customers as a BYOC-style offering. The WarpStream team is responsible for this product offering from top to bottom, and as a Senior Engineer you'll do everything from working on the storage engine running in the Agents, improving the scalability of our multi-tenant control plane, implementing new features like transactions, active-active multi-regions clusters, and even write some HTML/Javascript for our developer console. We're a small team of < 15 engineers, so you'll be expected to work across the entire stack from bashing bits at the network level to making sure our UI provides a great developer experience. You will have an opportunity to solve complex distributed systems problems at scale. You will build services that can operate across different cloud service providers like AWS, GCP, and Azure. You'll be on-call for all of it. The WarpStream team is fully remote and geographically distributed, currently we have engineers in: Spain, France, Canada, Ireland, and the USA. What You Will Do: Independently drive execution of complex technical projects end to end. Build mission-critical backend services that deliver value to our customers. You will play a crucial role in architecting, designing, developing and operationalizing high performance, scalable, reliable and resilient services. Troubleshoot and debug technical issues inside a deep and complex technical stack that includes microservices, containers, and virtualization. Ensure operational readiness of the services and meet the availability and performance SLA commitments to our customers. Required Skills 4+ years industry experience designing, building, scaling 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 programming and algorithmic skills. Proficiency in a major programming language, e.g. Java, Go, C / C++, Python, etc Deep curiosity and enthusiasm for distributed systems and storage systems Strong focus on project delivery and communication skills Experience in driving operational excellence for large production services A strong sense of customer centricity, teamwork, technical leadership and mentorship and are excited about team and company success Preferred Skills Proven track record of delivering large-scale, highly available, high quality systems Hands-on technical expertise in large scale systems engineering or distributed systems On-call experience handling critical systems Additional Details For additional information about location requirements, please discuss with the recruiter following submission of your application.
Introduction At IBM Software, we transform client challenges into solutions. Building the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native products that shape the future of business and society. Our legacy of innovation creates endless opportunities for IBMers to learn, grow, and make an impact on a global scale. Working in Software means joining a team fueled by curiosity and collaboration. You'll work with diverse technologies, partners, and industries to design, develop, and deliver solutions that power digital transformation. With a culture that values innovation, growth, and continuous learning, IBM Software places you at the heart of IBM's product and technology landscape. Here, you'll have the tools and opportunities to advance your career while creating software that changes the world. With Confluent, data doesn't sit still. We put information in motion, streaming in near real time so organizations can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them. Your Role and Responsibilities About the Role: The Confluent Cloud Platform based on Apache Kafka is the leading Cloud Native Platform as a Service for streaming data infrastructure, but this is just the beginning. We are building a PaaS enabling customer around the globe to deliver streaming applications. What You Will Do: Design, implement and maintain Golang infrastructure services (typically implemented as Kubernetes operators) to deliver the Confluent cloud foundations to the wider engineering organization Terraform, Datadog, Prometheus and a strong command of Linux, public cloud and networking should come as standard - though Golang software engineering will be your primary focus As a Confluent Cloud Infrastructure Software Engineer, you will be working alongside the rest of the Confluent engineers to build our PaaS product You, and the rest of the team, will be responsible for the availability, performance, monitoring, emergency response, and capacity planning of the Confluent cloud If you love the hum of big data systems covering 10,000's of instances, thinking about how to make them run as smoothly and securely as possible, and want to have a big influence on the architecture plus operational design points of this new product, then you will fit right in Required Skills What You Will Bring: BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience 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 (disk, network, operating systems, etc) A self-starter with the ability to work effectively in teams Proficiency in Go, Python, C++, or other statically typed languages Experience/knowledge with public clouds (AWS, Azure or GCP) Preferred Skills What Gives You an Edge: Experience with Golang is advantageous Experience using Apache Kafka is a big plus Additional Details For additional information about location requirements, please discuss with the recruiter following submission of your application.
13/11/2026
Full time
Introduction At IBM Software, we transform client challenges into solutions. Building the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native products that shape the future of business and society. Our legacy of innovation creates endless opportunities for IBMers to learn, grow, and make an impact on a global scale. Working in Software means joining a team fueled by curiosity and collaboration. You'll work with diverse technologies, partners, and industries to design, develop, and deliver solutions that power digital transformation. With a culture that values innovation, growth, and continuous learning, IBM Software places you at the heart of IBM's product and technology landscape. Here, you'll have the tools and opportunities to advance your career while creating software that changes the world. With Confluent, data doesn't sit still. We put information in motion, streaming in near real time so organizations can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them. Your Role and Responsibilities About the Role: The Confluent Cloud Platform based on Apache Kafka is the leading Cloud Native Platform as a Service for streaming data infrastructure, but this is just the beginning. We are building a PaaS enabling customer around the globe to deliver streaming applications. What You Will Do: Design, implement and maintain Golang infrastructure services (typically implemented as Kubernetes operators) to deliver the Confluent cloud foundations to the wider engineering organization Terraform, Datadog, Prometheus and a strong command of Linux, public cloud and networking should come as standard - though Golang software engineering will be your primary focus As a Confluent Cloud Infrastructure Software Engineer, you will be working alongside the rest of the Confluent engineers to build our PaaS product You, and the rest of the team, will be responsible for the availability, performance, monitoring, emergency response, and capacity planning of the Confluent cloud If you love the hum of big data systems covering 10,000's of instances, thinking about how to make them run as smoothly and securely as possible, and want to have a big influence on the architecture plus operational design points of this new product, then you will fit right in Required Skills What You Will Bring: BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience 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 (disk, network, operating systems, etc) A self-starter with the ability to work effectively in teams Proficiency in Go, Python, C++, or other statically typed languages Experience/knowledge with public clouds (AWS, Azure or GCP) Preferred Skills What Gives You an Edge: Experience with Golang is advantageous Experience using Apache Kafka is a big plus Additional Details For additional information about location requirements, please discuss with the recruiter following submission of your application.
Introduction At IBM Software, we transform client challenges into solutions. Building the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native products that shape the future of business and society. Our legacy of innovation creates endless opportunities for IBMers to learn, grow, and make an impact on a global scale. Working in Software means joining a team fueled by curiosity and collaboration. You'll work with diverse technologies, partners, and industries to design, develop, and deliver solutions that power digital transformation. With a culture that values innovation, growth, and continuous learning, IBM Software places you at the heart of IBM's product and technology landscape. Here, you'll have the tools and opportunities to advance your career while creating software that changes the world. With Confluent, data doesn't sit still. We put information in motion, streaming in near real time so organizations can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them. Your Role and Responsibilities About the Role: The Confluent Cloud Platform based on Apache Kafka is the leading Cloud Native Platform as a Service for streaming data infrastructure, but this is just the beginning. We are building a PaaS enabling customer around the globe to deliver streaming applications. What You Will Do: Design, implement and maintain Golang infrastructure services (typically implemented as Kubernetes operators) to deliver the Confluent cloud foundations to the wider engineering organization Terraform, Datadog, Prometheus and a strong command of Linux, public cloud and networking should come as standard - though Golang software engineering will be your primary focus As a Confluent Cloud Infrastructure Software Engineer, you will be working alongside the rest of the Confluent engineers to build our PaaS product You, and the rest of the team, will be responsible for the availability, performance, monitoring, emergency response, and capacity planning of the Confluent cloud If you love the hum of big data systems covering 10,000's of instances, thinking about how to make them run as smoothly and securely as possible, and want to have a big influence on the architecture plus operational design points of this new product, then you will fit right in Required Skills What You Will Bring: BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience 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 (disk, network, operating systems, etc) A self-starter with the ability to work effectively in teams Proficiency in Go, Python, C++, or other statically typed languages Experience/knowledge with public clouds (AWS, Azure or GCP) Preferred Skills What Gives You an Edge: Experience with Golang is advantageous Experience using Apache Kafka is a big plus Additional Details For additional information about location requirements, please discuss with the recruiter following submission of your application.
13/11/2026
Full time
Introduction At IBM Software, we transform client challenges into solutions. Building the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native products that shape the future of business and society. Our legacy of innovation creates endless opportunities for IBMers to learn, grow, and make an impact on a global scale. Working in Software means joining a team fueled by curiosity and collaboration. You'll work with diverse technologies, partners, and industries to design, develop, and deliver solutions that power digital transformation. With a culture that values innovation, growth, and continuous learning, IBM Software places you at the heart of IBM's product and technology landscape. Here, you'll have the tools and opportunities to advance your career while creating software that changes the world. With Confluent, data doesn't sit still. We put information in motion, streaming in near real time so organizations can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them. Your Role and Responsibilities About the Role: The Confluent Cloud Platform based on Apache Kafka is the leading Cloud Native Platform as a Service for streaming data infrastructure, but this is just the beginning. We are building a PaaS enabling customer around the globe to deliver streaming applications. What You Will Do: Design, implement and maintain Golang infrastructure services (typically implemented as Kubernetes operators) to deliver the Confluent cloud foundations to the wider engineering organization Terraform, Datadog, Prometheus and a strong command of Linux, public cloud and networking should come as standard - though Golang software engineering will be your primary focus As a Confluent Cloud Infrastructure Software Engineer, you will be working alongside the rest of the Confluent engineers to build our PaaS product You, and the rest of the team, will be responsible for the availability, performance, monitoring, emergency response, and capacity planning of the Confluent cloud If you love the hum of big data systems covering 10,000's of instances, thinking about how to make them run as smoothly and securely as possible, and want to have a big influence on the architecture plus operational design points of this new product, then you will fit right in Required Skills What You Will Bring: BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience 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 (disk, network, operating systems, etc) A self-starter with the ability to work effectively in teams Proficiency in Go, Python, C++, or other statically typed languages Experience/knowledge with public clouds (AWS, Azure or GCP) Preferred Skills What Gives You an Edge: Experience with Golang is advantageous Experience using Apache Kafka is a big plus Additional Details For additional information about location requirements, please discuss with the recruiter following submission of your application.
Introduction At IBM Software, we transform client challenges into solutions. Building the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native products that shape the future of business and society. Our legacy of innovation creates endless opportunities for IBMers to learn, grow, and make an impact on a global scale. Working in Software means joining a team fueled by curiosity and collaboration. You'll work with diverse technologies, partners, and industries to design, develop, and deliver solutions that power digital transformation. With a culture that values innovation, growth, and continuous learning, IBM Software places you at the heart of IBM's product and technology landscape. Here, you'll have the tools and opportunities to advance your career while creating software that changes the world. Your Role and Responsibilities About the Role: As a Software Engineer, Cloud Control Plane, you will be designing and implementing a distributed control plane used by product teams to manage the lifecycle of their Confluent Cloud offerings. We are a tightly knit group with a fairly mature Agile process running a very mild version of the XP playbook - we care a lot about clear communication, a good degree of task breakdown and a whole lot of pairing with other engineers. We pride ourselves in how we get stuff done - our process is light on red tape and heavy on collaboration - we will give you the authority and autonomy to make decisions. What You Will Do: Delve deep into the Kubernetes framework - we have K8S contributors working with us internally Provision infrastructure using a mixture of Terraform and internal tooling and deploy your changes using Helm Thrive working iteratively in a fast-paced Scrum environment where you'll use our product and be very much DevOps driven You'll be expected to not only ship code but also operate and support it before and after release - that includes having a deep understanding of what your code will run on Required Skills Strong software design and implementation skills in building infrastructure frameworks Deep expertise in building distributed systems Experience with one or more of these programming languages - Go, C++, Java, or Python Experience in a full project lifecycle starting from zero lines of code to operating, observing and supporting a product as part of an on-call rota Solid understanding of Kubernetes and Docker Preferred Skills Experience in building control planes (virtualization, software-defined networking/storage) Experience building APIs - both RESTful and gRPC-based Familiarity with infra such as networking, storage, and security in data centres Hands-on experience with Kubernetes operators, Helm, or StatefulSets Open source contributions to Kubernetes sigs or adjacent projects Experience with PBT, TDD, and pair programming. Additional Details For additional information about location requirements, please discuss with the recruiter following submission of your application.
13/11/2026
Full time
Introduction At IBM Software, we transform client challenges into solutions. Building the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native products that shape the future of business and society. Our legacy of innovation creates endless opportunities for IBMers to learn, grow, and make an impact on a global scale. Working in Software means joining a team fueled by curiosity and collaboration. You'll work with diverse technologies, partners, and industries to design, develop, and deliver solutions that power digital transformation. With a culture that values innovation, growth, and continuous learning, IBM Software places you at the heart of IBM's product and technology landscape. Here, you'll have the tools and opportunities to advance your career while creating software that changes the world. Your Role and Responsibilities About the Role: As a Software Engineer, Cloud Control Plane, you will be designing and implementing a distributed control plane used by product teams to manage the lifecycle of their Confluent Cloud offerings. We are a tightly knit group with a fairly mature Agile process running a very mild version of the XP playbook - we care a lot about clear communication, a good degree of task breakdown and a whole lot of pairing with other engineers. We pride ourselves in how we get stuff done - our process is light on red tape and heavy on collaboration - we will give you the authority and autonomy to make decisions. What You Will Do: Delve deep into the Kubernetes framework - we have K8S contributors working with us internally Provision infrastructure using a mixture of Terraform and internal tooling and deploy your changes using Helm Thrive working iteratively in a fast-paced Scrum environment where you'll use our product and be very much DevOps driven You'll be expected to not only ship code but also operate and support it before and after release - that includes having a deep understanding of what your code will run on Required Skills Strong software design and implementation skills in building infrastructure frameworks Deep expertise in building distributed systems Experience with one or more of these programming languages - Go, C++, Java, or Python Experience in a full project lifecycle starting from zero lines of code to operating, observing and supporting a product as part of an on-call rota Solid understanding of Kubernetes and Docker Preferred Skills Experience in building control planes (virtualization, software-defined networking/storage) Experience building APIs - both RESTful and gRPC-based Familiarity with infra such as networking, storage, and security in data centres Hands-on experience with Kubernetes operators, Helm, or StatefulSets Open source contributions to Kubernetes sigs or adjacent projects Experience with PBT, TDD, and pair programming. Additional Details For additional information about location requirements, please discuss with the recruiter following submission of your application.
Introduction At IBM Software, we transform client challenges into solutions. Building the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native products that shape the future of business and society. Our legacy of innovation creates endless opportunities for IBMers to learn, grow, and make an impact on a global scale. Working in Software means joining a team fueled by curiosity and collaboration. You'll work with diverse technologies, partners, and industries to design, develop, and deliver solutions that power digital transformation. With a culture that values innovation, growth, and continuous learning, IBM Software places you at the heart of IBM's product and technology landscape. Here, you'll have the tools and opportunities to advance your career while creating software that changes the world. Your Role and Responsibilities About the Role: As a Software Engineer, Cloud Control Plane, you will be designing and implementing a distributed control plane used by product teams to manage the lifecycle of their Confluent Cloud offerings. We are a tightly knit group with a fairly mature Agile process running a very mild version of the XP playbook - we care a lot about clear communication, a good degree of task breakdown and a whole lot of pairing with other engineers. We pride ourselves in how we get stuff done - our process is light on red tape and heavy on collaboration - we will give you the authority and autonomy to make decisions. What You Will Do: Delve deep into the Kubernetes framework - we have K8S contributors working with us internally Provision infrastructure using a mixture of Terraform and internal tooling and deploy your changes using Helm Thrive working iteratively in a fast-paced Scrum environment where you'll use our product and be very much DevOps driven You'll be expected to not only ship code but also operate and support it before and after release - that includes having a deep understanding of what your code will run on Required Skills Strong software design and implementation skills in building infrastructure frameworks Deep expertise in building distributed systems Experience with one or more of these programming languages - Go, C++, Java, or Python Experience in a full project lifecycle starting from zero lines of code to operating, observing and supporting a product as part of an on-call rota Solid understanding of Kubernetes and Docker Preferred Skills Experience in building control planes (virtualization, software-defined networking/storage) Experience building APIs - both RESTful and gRPC-based Familiarity with infra such as networking, storage, and security in data centres Hands-on experience with Kubernetes operators, Helm, or StatefulSets Open source contributions to Kubernetes sigs or adjacent projects Experience with PBT, TDD, and pair programming. Additional Details For additional information about location requirements, please discuss with the recruiter following submission of your application.
13/11/2026
Full time
Introduction At IBM Software, we transform client challenges into solutions. Building the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native products that shape the future of business and society. Our legacy of innovation creates endless opportunities for IBMers to learn, grow, and make an impact on a global scale. Working in Software means joining a team fueled by curiosity and collaboration. You'll work with diverse technologies, partners, and industries to design, develop, and deliver solutions that power digital transformation. With a culture that values innovation, growth, and continuous learning, IBM Software places you at the heart of IBM's product and technology landscape. Here, you'll have the tools and opportunities to advance your career while creating software that changes the world. Your Role and Responsibilities About the Role: As a Software Engineer, Cloud Control Plane, you will be designing and implementing a distributed control plane used by product teams to manage the lifecycle of their Confluent Cloud offerings. We are a tightly knit group with a fairly mature Agile process running a very mild version of the XP playbook - we care a lot about clear communication, a good degree of task breakdown and a whole lot of pairing with other engineers. We pride ourselves in how we get stuff done - our process is light on red tape and heavy on collaboration - we will give you the authority and autonomy to make decisions. What You Will Do: Delve deep into the Kubernetes framework - we have K8S contributors working with us internally Provision infrastructure using a mixture of Terraform and internal tooling and deploy your changes using Helm Thrive working iteratively in a fast-paced Scrum environment where you'll use our product and be very much DevOps driven You'll be expected to not only ship code but also operate and support it before and after release - that includes having a deep understanding of what your code will run on Required Skills Strong software design and implementation skills in building infrastructure frameworks Deep expertise in building distributed systems Experience with one or more of these programming languages - Go, C++, Java, or Python Experience in a full project lifecycle starting from zero lines of code to operating, observing and supporting a product as part of an on-call rota Solid understanding of Kubernetes and Docker Preferred Skills Experience in building control planes (virtualization, software-defined networking/storage) Experience building APIs - both RESTful and gRPC-based Familiarity with infra such as networking, storage, and security in data centres Hands-on experience with Kubernetes operators, Helm, or StatefulSets Open source contributions to Kubernetes sigs or adjacent projects Experience with PBT, TDD, and pair programming. Additional Details For additional information about location requirements, please discuss with the recruiter following submission of your application.
