Senior Distributed Systems Engineer - Kafka & Cloud

International Business Machines Corporation; Hursley; Remoto; GBP 90.000 - 125.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

IBM Software is recruiting a Senior Engineer to help scale WarpStream, our Kafka-compatible data streaming platform built on object storage. You’ll work across the stack from storage engine to UI, delivering high-performance services in a fully remote, international team.

You’ll design and implement backend services, improve scalability, reliability, and feature sets, and collaborate with engineers across regions to ship robust, production-ready software.

Competenze

• 4+ years industry experience designing, building, scaling and supporting backend systems in production.
• Proficiency in a major programming language (e.g., Java, Go, C/C++, Python).
• Deep curiosity for distributed and storage systems.
• Strong focus on project delivery and communication skills.
• Experience in driving operational excellence for large production services.
• Customer centricity, teamwork, technical leadership and mentorship mindset.

Mansioni

• Independently drive execution of complex technical projects end to end.
• Build mission-critical backend services delivering value to customers with scalable, reliable systems.
• Troubleshoot and debug within a deep, complex stack of microservices, containers, and virtualization.
• Ensure operational readiness and meet availability and performance SLAs.

Conoscenze

Backend design

Programming languages

Distributed systems

Project delivery

Operational excellence

Leadership/mentorship

Formazione

Master's Degree

Descrizione del lavoro

IBM Software is recruiting a Senior Engineer to help scale WarpStream, our Kafka-compatible data streaming platform built on object storage. You’ll work across the stack from storage engine to UI, delivering high-performance services in a fully remote, international team.

You’ll design and implement backend services, improve scalability, reliability, and feature sets, and collaborate with engineers across regions to ship robust, production-ready software.