Senior Software Engineer II - Confluent Traffic Team

IBM Software develops AI-powered, cloud-native products and hybrid cloud solutions. The Senior Software Engineer II will build and operate Confluent Cloud’s network data plane, designing high-performance, scalable, reliable, and resilient distributed systems while improving operations across public cloud environments.

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:

• High School Diploma/GED
• Education in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience
• 5+ years of relevant cloud infrastructure/cloud networking experience
• Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development
• Experience building and operating large-scale systems
• Solid understanding of basic systems operations (disk, network, operating systems, etc)
• A self-starter with the ability to work effectively in teams
• Proficiency in C++, Go, Python, or other statically typed languages
• Experience with public clouds (AWS, Azure or GCP)
• IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship
• Bachelor's Degree
• Experience with Kubernetes Networking
• Experience with Envoy proxy
• Experience with Linux kernel networking, eBPF is a huge plus
• A Strong networking background combined with your software engineering experience