Senior Software Engineer - Confluent Cloud Control Plane

IBM

TUCSON, AZ

JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
Algorithms, Architectural Design, Artificial Intelligence (AI), C Programming Language, C++ Programming Language, Cloud Computing, Code Reviews, Computer Programming, Computer Science, Debugging Skills, Distributed Computing, Documentation, Establish Priorities, GEP (Good Engineering Practices), Go Programming Language (Golang), High Availability, IBM Product Family, Identify Issues, Java, Large-Scale Systems, Mentoring, Microservices, On Call, Production Systems, Programming Languages, Python Programming/Scripting Language, Resource Management, Service Level Agreement (SLA), Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, Team Player, Technical Leadership, Virtualization
LOCATION
TUCSON, AZ
POSTED
1 day ago
**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 team's charter includes building and expanding our extensive cloud infrastructure, delivering clearly defined ways to interact with cloud resources and ensuring a uniform experience for managing these resources. Additionally, we prioritize delivering a dependable, discoverable, resilient and secure solution that our customers can depend on. As a senior software engineer within the Cloud Control Plane, you will collaborate closely with the team and essential stakeholders to design, architect and develop our secure multi-tenant Cloud Platform. This platform will further enable new business opportunities across Confluent (including Connect, Flink, Kafka and more). 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 This job can be performed from anywhere in the US. **Required technical and professional expertise** * Industry hands-on 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. * Experience in driving operational excellence for large, production services * A smart, humble, and empathetic attitude * A strong sense of customer centricity, teamwork, technical leadership and mentorship and are excited about team and company success * Education in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience **Preferred technical and professional experience** * 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 or distributed systems * On-call experience handling critical systems. IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

About the Company

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At IBM, you don’t need a degree to shape the future. Just bring your skills—and your passion. To build. To design. To code. To consult. To think along with clients and sell. To make markets. To invent. To collaborate.

Not just to do something better, but to attempt things you've never thought possible. To lead in this new era of technology and solve some of the world's most challenging problems. Let’s get to work.

COMPANY SIZE
10,000 employees or more
INDUSTRY
Computer/IT Services
FOUNDED
1911
WEBSITE
http://www-03.ibm.com/employment/us/