IBM
Senior Software Engineer - Confluent
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Confluent Cloud Platform Infrastructure Software Engineer
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.
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About the Role
The Confluent Cloud Platform, based on Apache Kafka, is the leading Cloud Native Platform as a Service (PaaS) for streaming data infrastructure—but this is just the beginning. We are building a PaaS enabling customers around the globe to deliver streaming applications.
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What You Will Do
- Design, implement, and maintain Golang infrastructure services (typically implemented as Kubernetes operators) to deliver Confluent cloud foundations to the wider engineering organization.
- Proficiencies in Terraform, Datadog, Prometheus, and a strong command of Linux, public cloud, and networking should be standard—but your primary focus will be Golang software engineering.
- Work alongside the Confluent engineers to build our PaaS product.
- You—and the rest of the team—will be responsible for:
- Availability, performance, monitoring, emergency response, and capacity planning of the Confluent cloud.
- If you love the hum of big data systems spanning thousands of instances, thinking about how to make them run smoothly and securely, and want to have a big influence on the architecture and operational design of this new product, this is the role for you.
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Preferred Education
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Required Technical & Professional Expertise
- Relevant experience in cloud infrastructure/cloud networking
- Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development
- Experience building and operating large-scale systems
- Solid understanding of basic system operations (disk, network, operating systems, etc.)
- Self-starter with the ability to work effectively in teams
- Proficiency in Go, Python, C++, or another statically typed language
- Experience/knowledge with public clouds (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
Preferred Technical & Professional Experience
- Experience with Golang
- Apache Kafka experience is a significant plus
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