Senior Software Engineer II - Fleet Management Unified Deployment

IBM is hiring a Senior Software Engineer II to build and evolve systems that manage the lifecycle of Confluent software across Confluent Cloud. The role develops deployment control planes, fleet orchestration, platform APIs, cloud integrations, security controls, and operational capabilities.

Responsibilities:

• Unified Deployment Control Plane: Build and evolve the control plane that manages software rollout, upgrades, recovery, and lifecycle operations across large multi-cloud fleets
• Fleet Lifecycle Orchestration: Develop systems that coordinate placement, maintenance, state transitions, and recovery workflows for services running across Confluent Cloud
• Platform APIs & Abstractions: Design and enhance APIs that provide clean abstractions for deployment workflows, service lifecycle management, and fleet-wide operational controls
• Cloud Platform Integration: Build and optimize integrations with the broader Confluent Cloud platform to enable seamless end-to-end operations across AWS, GCP, and Azure
• Multi-Tenancy & Security: Implement and strengthen isolation, security controls, and safe operational boundaries across deployment and runtime management systems
• Observability & Operations: Drive operational excellence through monitoring, automated health checks, remediation workflows, and self-healing capabilities

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree
• 6+ years of experience delivering scalable software solutions
• Deep expertise in Kubernetes, including controller development, operator patterns, and multi-cluster architectures
• Strong proficiency in Go, with experience building production-grade backend or platform services
• Experience with fleet-wide lifecycle management, deployment orchestration, or cloud infrastructure automation
• Experience running production services in cloud environments, with strong knowledge of reliability, networking, and security fundamentals
• Proven ability to independently own significant technical projects and collaborate effectively across teams
• 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
• Master's Degree
• Experience with multi-tenant platform architectures and security isolation patterns
• Familiarity with gRPC, Protobuf, and API design for internal platform services
• Demonstrated track record of mentorship and technical leadership