Sr. Software Engineer - Backend

IBM is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join their Foundations Engineering team, which focuses on ensuring the reliability and performance of the HCP Terraform hosted service. The role involves developing backend services, improving product quality, and providing technical mentorship to teammates.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain the backend services on which HCP Terraform relies
• Continuously improve the product by writing code in systems written in Ruby on Rails and Golang
• Investigate problems, performance bottlenecks, and orchestration issues which span multiple services
• Enable your teammates through technical mentorship, code reviews, and pairing
• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation that supports our production services

Requirements:

• Have 5+ years of production experience working on any of the following: Backend applications (e.g., Ruby on Rails), Databases (e.g., Postgres, Redis), Services written in Go
• Strive for quality through maintainable code and comprehensive testing from development to deployment
• Experience building and scaling distributed, highly available systems
• Communicate clearly while remaining empathetic and kind
• Have an eagerness to learn through humility and reflection
• Have experience debugging performance bottlenecks for live services and systems
• Have the ability to lead projects and bring others along with you
• Are familiar with best practices for application and infrastructure security