Software Engineering Senior Software Engineer II - Confluent Professional Hursley, GB

IBM; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM is seeking a Senior Software Engineer in Hursley, United Kingdom, to design and maintain Golang infrastructure services for our Confluent Cloud Platform. The role demands strong experience in cloud infrastructure and distributed systems. Candidates should be proficient in Golang, Python, and other programming languages.

As part of the team, you’ll ensure the performance and availability of our cloud services while collaborating with your colleagues in engineering. This role offers a dynamic working environment with opportunities for growth and professional development.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in cloud infrastructure and networking.
• Strong fundamentals in distributed systems.
• Ability to work effectively in teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain Golang infrastructure services.
• Work alongside engineers to build PaaS products.
• Ensure availability and performance of the Confluent cloud.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure experience

Distributed systems design

Golang proficiency

Python proficiency

Operating large-scale systems

Linux operation

Public cloud knowledge

Job description

Your role and responsibilities

About the Role

The Confluent Cloud Platform based on Apache Kafka is the leading cloud‑native Platform as a Service for streaming data infrastructure, but this is just the beginning. We are building a PaaS enabling customers around the globe to deliver streaming applications.

What You Will Do

• Design, implement and maintain Golang infrastructure services (typically implemented as Kubernetes operators) to deliver the Confluent cloud foundations to the wider engineering organization.
• Terraform, Datadog, Prometheus and a strong command of Linux, public cloud and networking should come as standard – though Golang software engineering will be your primary focus.
• As a Confluent Cloud Infrastructure Software Engineer, you will be working alongside the rest of the Confluent engineers to build our PaaS product.
• You, and the rest of the team, will be responsible for the availability, performance, monitoring, emergency response, and capacity planning of the Confluent cloud.
• If you love the hum of big data systems covering 10,000’s of instances, thinking about how to make them run as smoothly and securely as possible, and want to have a big influence on the architecture and operational design points of this new product, then you will fit right in.

Required education

None

Preferred education

None

Required technical and professional expertise

• Extensive demonstrated cloud infrastructure/cloud networking experience.
• Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development.
• Experience building and operating large‑scale systems.
• Solid understanding of basic systems operations (disk, network, operating systems, etc).
• A self‑starter with the ability to work effectively in teams.
• Proficiency in Go, Python, C++, or other statically typed languages.
• Experience/knowledge with public clouds (AWS, Azure or GCP).

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Experience with Golang is advantageous.
• Experience using Apache Kafka is a big plus.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer

Job ID: 122178

City / Township / Village: Hursley

State / Province: Hampshire

Country: United Kingdom

Work arrangement: Remote

Area of work: Software Engineering

Employment type: Regular

Position type: Professional

Some travel may be required based on business demand.

Company: (8660) IBM United Kingdom Limited

Shift: On Call

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