Confluent - Senior Software Engineer - (Full-Stack, UX-Focused)

International Business Machines Corporation; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM Software in Vancouver, BC, Canada, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer I with a passion for observability to help define and operate a global-scale observability platform. You will work across clouds and regions, shaping how we collect, store, and analyze signals from infrastructure and applications.

The role emphasizes building end-to-end observability capabilities, improving developer velocity and reliability, and collaborating with product teams to deliver enhancements at scale.

Qualifications

• 4+ years building distributed systems in Java, Golang or Python and running in k8s.
• Experience on SRE, DevOps, observability, or similar platform engineering team delivering capabilities to multiple product engineering teams.
• Experience with Prometheus, AlertManager, Grafana, and OpenSearch.
• Experience operating in-house observability infrastructure and being on-call for it.
• BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or related field, or equivalent work experience.

Responsibilities

• Architect, design, build and operate end-to-end solutions for collecting, shipping, storing and querying OpenTelemetry signals from infrastructure, application containers, and k8s clusters.
• Define and implement building blocks for querying, visualizing and acting on 300M+ active time series using Grafana, Prometheus, AlertManager, and PagerDuty.
• Evaluate and implement new capabilities for logging, trace analytics and application profiling.
• Collaborate with product engineering teams to evangelize and deliver enhancements to the observability platform.

Skills

Distributed systems

Java

Golang

Python

Kubernetes

SRE/DevOps

Observability

On-call experience

Education

BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenSearch

VictoriaMetrics

ClickHouse

OTel Collector

Job description

Introduction

At IBM Software, we transform client challenges into solutions. Building the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native products that shape the future of business and society. Our legacy of innovation creates endless opportunities for IBMers to learn, grow, and make an impact on a global scale. Working in Software means joining a team fueled by curiosity and collaboration. You'll work with diverse technologies, partners, and industries to design, develop, and deliver solutions that power digital transformation. With a culture that values innovation, growth, and continuous learning, IBM Software places you at the heart of IBM's product and technology landscape. Here, you'l have the tools and opportunities to advance your career while creating software that changes the world.

Introduction

At IBM Software, we transform client challenges into solutions. Building the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native products that shape the future of business and society. Our legacy of innovation creates endless opportunities for IBMers to learn, grow, and make an impact on a global scale. Working in Software means joining a team fueled by curiosity and collaboration. You'll work with diverse technologies, partners, and industries to design, develop, and deliver solutions that power digital transformation. With a culture that values innovation, growth, and continuous learning, IBM Software places you at the heart of IBM's product and technology landscape. Here, you'l have the tools and opportunities to advance your career while creating software that changes the world.

Your Role And Responsibilities

We're seeking a Senior Software Engineer I with a passion for observability, and a desire to define their career by contributing to our mission critical observability platform that operates at global scale; across the big three cloud providers, a hundred regions, thousands of clusters and tens of thousands of nodes. At this scale, every contribution you make will have an enormous impact on how we develop and operate our global data streaming platform. This role will let you flex a wide range of skills; where UX design and mega scale system design are equally important, where improving developer velocity and reliability can be equally satisfying.

What You Will Do

Architect, design, build and operate end-to-end solutions for collecting, shipping, storing and querying OpenTelemetry signals from infrastructure, application containers, and k8s clusters, with a heavy focus on self-service, multitenancy, reliability and velocity.

Operate global and regional storage and query backends for metrics, traces, and logs Define and implement the building blocks for querying, visualizing and acting on 300M+ active time series using Grafana, Prometheus, AlertManager, and PagerDuty

Evaluate and implement new capabilities for logging, trace analytics and application profiling

Work directly with product engineering teams, on calls, and incident commanders to evangelize and deliver enhancements to our observability platform

Preferred Education

Master's Degree

Required Technical And Professional Expertise

• 4+ years building distributed systems in Java, Golang or Python and running in k8s
• Experience on SRE, DevOps, observability, or similar platform engineering team delivering capabilities to multiple product engineering team
• Experience in the use of Prometheus, AlertManager, Grafana, and OpenSearch
• Experience with operating in-house observability infrastructure and being on-call for it
• BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience

What Gives You An Edge

• Experience operating highly scalable observability backends (VictoriaMetrics, OpenSearch, ClickHouse, etc)
• Experience with federated observability solutions that span multiple clouds and regions
• You've built and operated k8s clusters on an infrastructure or SRE team in AWS, GCP, and Azure
• You've taken a platform approach to problem solving by building your own OTel Collector components, k8s custom resources and k8s operators

Preferred Technical And Professional Experience

Same as above.