Principal Engineer, Kafka Connect & Data Streaming

International Business Machines Corporation; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM Software is seeking a Principal Engineer to lead the technical vision, architecture, and operations of Confluent Kafka Connectors. You will drive innovation, shape the roadmap, and mentor engineers across global teams.

With 15+ years of software development and strong distributed systems and cloud experience, you will influence technology decisions and help IBM deliver scalable streaming data solutions to customers worldwide.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree required.
• 15+ years of hands-on software development experience.
• Experience building and operating large-scale systems in public clouds.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical vision, architecture, execution, and operations of Confluent Kafka Connectors.
• Guide the Connect team in driving innovation and product roadmap.
• Mentor engineers and leaders; foster a culture of excellence and inclusion.

Skills

Hands-on software dev

Distributed systems

Public clouds

Mentorship

Team leadership

Effective communication

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree

Tools

Kafka Connect

Apache Kafka

Elasticsearch

Hadoop

Job description

IBM Software is seeking a Principal Engineer to lead the technical vision, architecture, and operations of Confluent Kafka Connectors. You will drive innovation, shape the roadmap, and mentor engineers across global teams.

With 15+ years of software development and strong distributed systems and cloud experience, you will influence technology decisions and help IBM deliver scalable streaming data solutions to customers worldwide.