Senior Backend Engineer — Cloud-Native, Distributed Systems

IBM; Hursley; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM Software seeks a senior backend software engineer to design, build and scale cloud-native services powering Confluent Cloud components. You’ll work on multi-tenant distributed systems using Kubernetes and modern tooling to deliver high-availability platforms.

You will collaborate across teams, emphasize quality, documentation, and operational excellence, with opportunities to mentor others and influence production systems at scale.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience designing, building, scaling and supporting backend systems in production.
• Strong programming and algorithmic skills in at least one major language (Java/Go/C++/Python).
• Experience configuring and deploying distributed systems and microservices with modern tools (Kubernetes, Helm).
• Excellent project delivery, communication and collaboration skills.
• BS/MS/PhD in CS or related field, or equivalent work experience.

Responsibilities

• Build mission-critical backend services with high performance and resilience.
• Troubleshoot and debug issues in a large-scale distributed stack (microservices, containers, virtualization).
• Ensure services meet availability and performance SLAs and reliability standards.
• Promote operational excellence, documentation, and customer-centric engineering.

Skills

Java

Go

C/C++

Python

Distributed systems

Education

BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science

Tools

Kubernetes

Helm

Job description

IBM Software seeks a senior backend software engineer to design, build and scale cloud-native services powering Confluent Cloud components. You’ll work on multi-tenant distributed systems using Kubernetes and modern tooling to deliver high-availability platforms.

You will collaborate across teams, emphasize quality, documentation, and operational excellence, with opportunities to mentor others and influence production systems at scale.