Senior Software Developer

Introduction

At IBM, work is more than a job - it's a calling: To build. To design. To code. To consult. To think along with clients and sell. To make markets. To invent. To collaborate. Not just to do something better, but to attempt things you've never thought possible. Are you ready to lead in this new era of technology and solve some of the world's most challenging problems? If so, let's talk.

Your Role and Responsibilities

You will be part of a highly motivated and skilled team incubating a new business for IBM with the goal of fundamentally changing how we think about data, metadata, and data access. Collaborate with other engineers, product management, and other team members to design, code, test, document, and support industry-leading solutions.

Applicants should have prior experience with or be able to master the tools and techniques for building, deploying, operating, and supporting large scale hybrid cloud platforms, services, and applications, based on Kubernetes and DevOps practices. Challenges include optimizing demanding Open APIs, heterogeneous computation platforms, and operational requirements for highly available and reliable services.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Experience in a professional software engineering role using one or more programming language ecosystems and software development processes
• Experience in developing software with Python, Rust, C++ or Go and their ecosystems of tools and libraries
• Experience with cloud-native environments, such as AWS (S3, lambda, CloudTrail, etc.) or other cloud vendors
• Demonstrated ability to organize, prioritize, and multi-task in a fast paced, changing, and agile development environment to meet deadlines
• Effective written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills
• Proficiency in English

Preferred Technical And Professional Expertise

• Experience with Kubernetes
• Experience with Ray, Skypilot, or vLLM
• Experience with DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) processes required to build Software as a Service (SaaS) products
• Experience in a data science or data engineering environment
• Experience with strongly typed languages/type systems or GraphQL

About Business Unit

IBM 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.

Your Life @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better. Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background. Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do. Are you ready to be an IBMer?