Software Engineering Software Engineer, DSE Professional London, GB

Avature; London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading global technology company as a Software Engineer specializing in DataStax Enterprise Cassandra in London. You will engage in coding and collaboration with teams to enhance cloud solutions, ensuring security and efficiency in hybrid environments. This role supports your professional growth in a dynamic, innovative setting with a focus on AI-driven solutions.

Qualifications

• Expertise in at least one C-lineage language supporting OOP and FP.
• Ability to work autonomously and self-manage.
• Strong communication skills with peers and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Author, debug, and improve code in DataStax Enterprise Cassandra.
• Work on maintenance, bug fixes, and new feature development.
• Collaborate with teams to prepare for DSE releases.

Skills

Java

Scala

C++

C#

Rust

Analytical Tasks

OOP

FP

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

DataStax Enterprise

Apache Cassandra

Apache Spark

Linux

Job description

A career in IBM Software means you'll be part of a team that transforms our customer's challenges into industry-leading solutions. We are an infinitely curious team, always seeking new possibilities, and dedicated to creating the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our network of IBMers. We are a team of deep product experts, ensuring exceptional client experiences, with a focus on delivery, excellence, and obsession over customer outcomes. This position involves contributing to HashiCorp's offerings, now part of IBM, which empower organizations to automate and secure multi-cloud and hybrid environments. You will join a team managing the lifecycle of infrastructure and security, enhancing IBM's cloud solutions to ensure enterprises achieve efficiency, security, and scalability in their cloud journey.

Your role and responsibilities

Author, debug, and improve code in the core of DataStax Enterprise Cassandra

Actively and self-driven collaborate with other engineers, field team and support members

Work on maintenance, bug fixes, new feature development and improvements to the platform

Help prepare different teams for DSE releases (documentation, field, etc)

Work remotely full-time, discussing things with peers over Slack, email, or video chat

Required education

None

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• Expertise in at least one C-lineage language that supports OOP and FP (Java, Scala, Kotlin, C#, C++, Rust, etc)
• Ability to work autonomously, self-manage your time, and to an extent self-direct when given high level strategic priorities
• Ability to communicate clearly with peers and stakeholders verbally and via text (video calls, JIRA, Slack, email)
• Demonstrated ability to focus on analytical tasks such as finding issues in a huge, distributed system
• A desire to learn and grow daily, both technically and w/soft-skills interpersonally
• An open-minded and collaborative attitude

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Expertise in Java and Scala programming on the JVM
• Experience with concurrency, memory management and I/O
• Experience with Linux or other Unix-like systems
• Experience with distributed databases, DataStax Enterprise or Apache Cassandra in particular
• Experience with distributed computing platforms, Apache Spark in particular

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence—from machine learning to generative AI—to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM’s AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM’s hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments—a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualifiedapplicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race,color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexualorientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability,neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is alsocommitted to compliance with all fair employment practices regardingcitizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

For additional information about location requirements, please discuss with the recruiter following submission of your application.

Job Title

Software Engineer, DSE

Job ID

41104

City / Township / Village

London

State / Province

London, City of

Country

United Kingdom

Work arrangement

Hybrid

Area of work

Software Engineering

Employment type

Regular

Position type

Professional

No Travel

Company

(8660) IBM United Kingdom Limited

Shift

General (daytime)

Is this role a commissionable/sales incentive based position?