Staff Software Development Engineer

at  IBM

Introduction
Are you a software engineer with a passion for building scalable micro-services that handle massive amounts of data and form the backbone of customer-facing managed services?
We are a growing SaaS-centered company that helps our enterprise customers plan, analyze, and optimize their IT spending across traditional and cloud infrastructure.
We are looking for a Senior 5 years plus experience Software Engineer who is passionate about building large scale services optimized for performance, efficiency, and handling lots of data. You will be responsible for designing new services, revamping existing ones, and guiding the team’s overall system design and architecture. Some of the technologies you’ll be using include AWS, GCP, Azure, and their hosted services like RDS, SQS, and Lambda; NoSQL/distributed such as DynamoDB and Redis; and established Java/Golang codebases.

Your Role and Responsibilities

• Build cloud-natives services that solve new and existing business challenges and customer needs

-Owning and driving the team’s technical vision and system architecture. -Building distributed systems in Java to process petabytes of data,

• Own end-to-end features from concept to design to production and partner with product managers and other engineers to deliver high-quality solutions that horizontally scale.
• Dive into complex architectures and research and identify new technologies to solve tough problems.
• Mentor and coach junior engineers.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Extensive professional knowledge, experience, and understanding of at least one modern programming language, such Java, Scala and Go.
• Professional experience in a SaaS company.
• 8+ years of professional software development experience.
• 5+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.
• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, a related field, or relevant work experience.
• Computer Science fundamentals in data structures, algorithm design and problem solving.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Experience in modern software concepts such as Infrastructure as Code (e.g., terraform)
• Experienced with modern API design and implementations, preferably in Java or Golang.
• Experienced in Cloud infrastructure’s cost management or FinOps.
• Experience with Linux-based integrated development environments, or equivalent (e.g., IntelliJ IDEA).
• Experience using containerization technologies like Docker and container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes.
• Experience using monitoring tools like Splunk, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana
• Exceptional customer focus, ownership, and drive.
• Demonstrated capability to provide depth and breadth technical leadership.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.

About Business UnitIBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence—from machine learning to generative AI—to 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 environments—a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.
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• Build cloud-natives services that solve new and existing business challenges and customer need