Cloud Compute Platform Engineer (Kubernetes & Go)

IBM; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM Software is seeking a Software Engineer to help build and operate a cloud-native compute platform powering enterprise workloads. You will design services and Kubernetes controllers in Go, contribute to platform APIs, and collaborate with product managers to deliver reliable, scalable systems.

You will work across Kubernetes clusters, cloud integrations, and multi-tenant considerations, with a focus on observability, testing, and runbooks.

Qualifications

• Few years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience designing, implementing, and operating production software.
• Proficiency in Go or a similar programming language, with the ability to learn Go.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes concepts such as deployments, services, controllers, or operators.
• Understanding of distributed systems, APIs, networking, or cloud infrastructure.
• Experience with software testing, debugging, monitoring, and incident resolution.
• Ability to break down moderately complex problems and deliver solutions with guidance from teammates.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• A collaborative, thoughtful, and growth-oriented approach to engineering.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement services, APIs, and Kubernetes controllers using Go.
• Contribute to systems that manage workload placement, lifecycle, and state across Kubernetes clusters.
• Work with product managers and engineers to understand requirements and deliver reliable solutions.
• Participate in technical design discussions and help evaluate implementation trade-offs.
• Improve the reliability, scalability, observability, and maintainability of existing systems.
• Write automated tests, documentation, and operational runbooks.
• Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to teammates.
• Help investigate and resolve production issues as part of the team's operational responsibilities.
• Collaborate with partner teams across Confluent Cloud to support end-to-end platform functionality.

Skills

Team collaboration

Communication

Problem solving

Go programming

Tools

Go

Kubernetes

gRPC

Protobuf

API design

AWS

GCP

Azure

Distributed systems

Job description

IBM Software is seeking a Software Engineer to help build and operate a cloud-native compute platform powering enterprise workloads. You will design services and Kubernetes controllers in Go, contribute to platform APIs, and collaborate with product managers to deliver reliable, scalable systems.

You will work across Kubernetes clusters, cloud integrations, and multi-tenant considerations, with a focus on observability, testing, and runbooks.