Senior Backend Engineer — Cloud-Native Data Platform

International Business Machines Corporation; City of Poughkeepsie (NY); Vor Ort; USD 130.000 - 190.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

IBM Confluent is building a world-class team to design and run multi-tenant, cloud-native streaming platforms. You will own backend services, shape architecture, and drive end-to-end delivery for real-time data infrastructure.

We value senior engineers who lead with impact, mentor teammates, and push for reliability, observability, and operational excellence across large-scale systems and diverse tech stacks.

Qualifikationen

• 7+ years industry experience designing, building, and supporting backend systems in production.
• Strong knowledge of Python runtime environments and package management.
• Proficiency in multiple programming languages (Python, Go, C/C++, Java).
• Experience running services in a public cloud with containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience with observability and operational excellence (metrics, logging, tracing).
• BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience.

Aufgaben

• Own and lead the design and implementation of complex backend services in a cloud-native environment.
• Make architecture and tradeoff decisions balancing reliability, scalability, performance, and operability.
• Drive end-to-end projects from requirements to production rollout and operation.
• Improve service reliability by defining SLOs/SLAs and strengthening observability.
• Collaborate across teams to define APIs, integration points, and data models.
• Drive platform improvements in tooling, automation, and process.

Kenntnisse

Python

Go

C/C++

Java

Cloud experience

Distributed systems

Leadership

Ausbildung

Bachelor's degree in CS

Master's degree

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Azure

Jobbeschreibung

IBM Confluent is building a world-class team to design and run multi-tenant, cloud-native streaming platforms. You will own backend services, shape architecture, and drive end-to-end delivery for real-time data infrastructure.

We value senior engineers who lead with impact, mentor teammates, and push for reliability, observability, and operational excellence across large-scale systems and diverse tech stacks.