Remote Staff Software Engineer, Distributed Systems

IBM; Boston (MA); Remote; USD 161,000 - 299,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM is seeking a Distributed Systems Software Engineer for its WarpStream team. You will tackle complex backend challenges, building scalable services that operate across cloud providers like AWS, GCP, and Azure, and you will be on-call for critical systems.

The role emphasizes independence, on-call readiness, and delivering high-quality backend software with strong collaboration across teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree required.
• 5+ years of industry experience designing, building, scaling and supporting backend systems.
• Proficiency in Java, Go, C/C++, Python.
• Strong distributed systems and storage systems.

Responsibilities

• Independently drive execution of complex technical projects end to end.
• Build mission-critical backend services that deliver value to our customers, architecting, designing, developing and operationalizing high performance, scalable, reliable services.
• Troubleshoot and debug issues in a deep tech stack including microservices, containers, and virtualization.
• Ensure operational readiness of services and meet availability and performance SLAs.

Job description

IBM is seeking a Distributed Systems Software Engineer for its WarpStream team. You will tackle complex backend challenges, building scalable services that operate across cloud providers like AWS, GCP, and Azure, and you will be on-call for critical systems.

The role emphasizes independence, on-call readiness, and delivering high-quality backend software with strong collaboration across teams.