Senior Cloud-Native Backend Engineer

IBM Computing; Ottawa; On-site; CAD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM Software is seeking software engineers at various levels to grow our Traffic team, building and managing the networking fabric of Confluent Cloud. This role centers on cloud-native backend services that are secure, scalable, and highly available, with a strong emphasis on APIs and end-to-end ownership.

You will design, implement, and operate backend systems, collaborate across cross-functional teams on architecture and data modeling, and contribute to reliability, monitoring, and automation.

Qualifications

• 5–10 years of experience building distributed backend systems.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure.
• BS, MS in computer science or related field, or equivalent work experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate backend services that are secure, reliable, and scalable in a cloud-native environment.
• Own features and projects end to end: requirements, design, implementation, testing, rollout, and ongoing improvements.
• Work with distributed systems and microservices, with a focus on performance, resiliency, and clear API contracts.
• Contribute to service reliability and operations, including monitoring, alerting, and on-call participation where applicable.
• Collaborate with partner teams on architecture, data modeling, and integration points across Confluent’s platform.
• Write clean, well-tested, and well-documented code, and participate in code reviews that raise the bar for the team.
• Help improve engineering practices, tools, and automation to make it easier and safer to ship code.
• Contribute to a healthy team culture through clear communication, inclusive collaboration, and a willingness to learn and teach.

Skills

Distributed backend

APIs and contracts

Go

Java

C++

Kubernetes

Education

BS, MS in computer science or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Public Cloud

Job description

IBM Software is seeking software engineers at various levels to grow our Traffic team, building and managing the networking fabric of Confluent Cloud. This role centers on cloud-native backend services that are secure, scalable, and highly available, with a strong emphasis on APIs and end-to-end ownership.

You will design, implement, and operate backend systems, collaborate across cross-functional teams on architecture and data modeling, and contribute to reliability, monitoring, and automation.