Senior Software Engineer - Confluent Cloud Traffic

IBM Software develops AI-powered, cloud-native products and is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Confluent Cloud Traffic team. The role focuses on designing, developing, and operating high-performance, scalable, secure, and reliable network data plane systems for containerized workloads in the cloud. Responsibilities also include independently delivering complex software projects, leveraging open source software, and troubleshooting multi-cloud technical systems.

Responsibilities:

• Build the software underpinning the mission-critical Confluent Cloud network data plane platform. You will play a crucial role in designing, developing and operationalizing high performance, scalable, reliable and resilient systems
• Independently drive execution of software projects to deliver complex projects in production with a focus on quality
• Build upon open source software to deliver business impact
• Troubleshoot issues and improve ops for complex technical stack that spans all the 3 clouds and includes microservices, containers, and virtualization

Requirements:

• • 2+ years of relevant cloud infrastructure/cloud networking experience
• • Experience/knowledge with public clouds (AWS, Azure or GCP)
• • Practical experience with Kubernetes and containerization technologies
• • Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development
• • Experience building and operating large-scale systems
• • Solid understanding at a systems level (disk, network, operating systems, etc)
• • Proficiency in C++, Go, Python, or other statically typed languages
• • A self-starter with the ability to work effectively in teams
• • BS, MS in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience
• Master's Degree
• • 5+ years of relevant cloud infrastructure/cloud networking experience
• • A Strong networking background combined with your software engineering experience