Staff Software Development Engineer

Staff Software Development Engineer

LOWELL, Boston, BELLEVUE, San Jose, Austin, San Francisco, Seattle, Texas, Washington, Massachusetts, California, United States

IBM Software

Professional

Introduction

You: Are a staff backend software engineer who strives for excellence in technical solutions for large-scale, high-performance distributed systems. You have a curious mind and a passion for continuous improvement. You thrive in an agile and fast-paced environment. Us: We are a high-performing cross-functional team of developers, product managers, and designers. We are passionate about delivering elegant solutions to complex business problems and we have a proven track record of delivering successful features and functionality that delight our customers.

Your role and responsibilities

You will work with your scrum team to deliver impactful and valuable features operating on a bi-weekly sprint cadence. You will drive cross-team initiatives by working with product managers, user experience designers, and other engineers to achieve high-quality solutions. In addition, be part of the on-call rotation to help mitigate and solve any issues that may arise from the day-to-day operations of running a service.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

7+ years of experience delivering enterprise level software preferably in Golang, Java or C#, other languages also considered

Proficiency with object-oriented design, data structures, algorithms, and asynchronous architectural design.

Professional experience building REST APIs. Experience in building large-scale data processing pipelines.

Professional experience with relational databases, schema design, and SQL. Experience with database implementations (query optimization, index generation, caching).

Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and related technologies (Helm, Prometheus, etc.) Strong understanding of containerization technologies like Docker

Experience with cloud providers like AWS, Azure, GCP or equivalent.

Proficiency in version control systems like Git

Preferred technical and professional experience

Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Experience developing Software as a Service (SaaS) applications and understanding the impact of this architecture in a deployment environment.

Experience in infrastructure deployment tools such as terraform, etc.

Experience in production on-call handling; Experience in monitoring and troubleshooting tools such as Datadog, Splunk, PagerDuty, etc.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligencefrom machine learning to generative AIto help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM's AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM's hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environmentsa flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you'll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

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