Senior Backend Engineer, Cloud Networking & Distributed Systems

IBM; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM Software is seeking software engineers at multiple levels to grow the Traffic team, building the networking fabric of Confluent Cloud and delivering scalable backend services in a cloud-native environment.

You will own features end-to-end, design robust APIs, and work with Go, Java, and C++ while collaborating across teams to improve reliability, performance, and platform velocity.

Qualifications

• 2-5 years of experience building distributed backend systems in production.
• Experience with large-scale services and end-to-end lifecycle ownership.
• Solid networking, OS, and storage tradeoffs understanding.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate backend services that are secure, reliable, and scalable in a cloud-native environment.
• Own features and projects end to end: requirements, design, implementation, testing, rollout, and ongoing improvements.
• Work with distributed systems and microservices with focus on performance, resiliency, and clear API contracts.
• Contribute to service reliability and operations, including monitoring, alerting, and on-call participation where applicable.
• Collaborate with partner teams on architecture, data modeling, and integration points across the platform.
• Write clean, well-tested, well-documented code and participate in code reviews that raise the bar for the team.
• Help improve engineering practices, tools, and automation to ship code safely.
• Contribute to a healthy team culture through clear communication and inclusive collaboration.

Skills

Distributed systems

Go/Java/C++

Cloud/Kubernetes

Backend design

API contracts

Education

Master's Degree

BS/MS in computer science or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms

Job description

IBM Software is seeking software engineers at multiple levels to grow the Traffic team, building the networking fabric of Confluent Cloud and delivering scalable backend services in a cloud-native environment.

You will own features end-to-end, design robust APIs, and work with Go, Java, and C++ while collaborating across teams to improve reliability, performance, and platform velocity.