Senior Backend Engineer, Cloud Data Streaming Platform

IBM; Markham; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM Software is seeking Senior Backend Engineers to own critical data-streaming services and the metadata platform. You will design and operate distributed systems that span multiple clouds, ensuring high availability and low latency.

Bring 6+ years of backend experience, strong Go skills, and hands-on work with distributed data stores. You’ll contribute to a culture of curiosity, collaboration, and continuous learning at IBM.

Qualifications

• 6+ years backend experience designing, building, and operating production services.
• Proficiency in Go or a similar language and strong concurrency skills.
• Experience with distributed data stores and major cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve the metadata platform APIs (read, write, streaming).
• Tackle distributed-systems challenges: availability, consistency, scaling.
• Design, build, and operate resilient systems across multiple clouds.
• Independently drive projects with velocity in a fast-paced team.

Skills

Go

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

Observability

Concurrency

Code review & testing

Education

Master's Degree

Tools

DynamoDB/Cosmos/Spanner/Cassandra

AWS/GCP/Azure

Kubernetes

Job description

IBM Software is seeking Senior Backend Engineers to own critical data-streaming services and the metadata platform. You will design and operate distributed systems that span multiple clouds, ensuring high availability and low latency.

Bring 6+ years of backend experience, strong Go skills, and hands-on work with distributed data stores. You’ll contribute to a culture of curiosity, collaboration, and continuous learning at IBM.