Senior Backend Engineer - Cloud Data Platform (Remote)

IBM; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 156,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM is seeking a Senior Software Developer II for the Confluent Cloud Platform. You will own backend services, design, build, and operate scalable systems across clouds to support a real-time data streaming platform.

Requirements include 6+ years building large-scale backend services, strong Go programming, concurrency mastery, and experience with distributed data stores and major clouds. Remote Canadian work arrangement offered.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of industry experience designing, building, and operating large-scale backend services in production.
• Strong programming and algorithmic skills, with proficiency in a major language (Go or similar).
• Strong command of concurrency and correctness - reasoning about and preventing race conditions.
• Hands-on experience with distributed data stores (DynamoDB, Cosmos, Spanner, Cassandra, or similar).
• Experience with at least one major cloud (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Observability and operational excellence - SLOs, on-call, incident response, and postmortems.
• High ownership and drive - self-managed execution with velocity in a fast-pace platform team.
• Strong engineering practices - code review, testing, documentation, and clear written and verbal communication.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve the metadata platform - the read, write, and streaming APIs.
• Solve hard distributed-systems problems - availability, consistency, sharding, scaling.
• Design, build, and operate resilient, scalable systems across a stack spanning multiple clouds and services.
• Independently drive projects - spot high-impact gap.

Skills

Backend systems

Go

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Observability & SLOs

Code reviews & testing

Ownership & velocity

Concurrency & correctness

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree

Tools

DynamoDB

Cosmos

Spanner

Cassandra

Kubernetes

Kafka

Job description

IBM is seeking a Senior Software Developer II for the Confluent Cloud Platform. You will own backend services, design, build, and operate scalable systems across clouds to support a real-time data streaming platform.

Requirements include 6+ years building large-scale backend services, strong Go programming, concurrency mastery, and experience with distributed data stores and major clouds. Remote Canadian work arrangement offered.