Principal Cloud Reliability Engineer

International Business Machines Corporation

City of Poughkeepsie (NY, AR)

On-site

USD 180,000 - 235,000

Full time

5 days ago

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Job summary

IBM Software, part of International Business Machines Corporation, is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead the CAR team’s reliability and observability initiatives across multi-cloud data streaming platforms. You will influence architecture, drive tooling, and collaborate with Confluent R&D to ensure fast recovery and high availability.

Ideal candidates bring deep reliability engineering expertise, strong systems thinking, and hands-on software development experience, plus a proven

Qualifications

Reliability engineering for highly available cloud systems.
Systems thinking to model cross-team interactions.
Observability fundamentals: metrics, logs, traces, SLOs.
Technical leadership and influencing senior engineers.
Exceptional written communication.
Hands-on coding in one or more languages.

Responsibilities

Define architectural patterns for systemic resiliency across services.
Shape observability platform architecture using OpenTelemetry and Prometheus.
Design operator tooling and guardrails for AI-assisted triage and remediation.
Partner with customers and leadership to translate requirements into engineering standards.