Senior Cloud Compute Engineer — Kubernetes & Go Leader

IBM Computing; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM Software in Seattle seeks an experienced Software Engineer for the Compute Platform who will help build multi-tenant, cloud-native systems powering Confluent Cloud workloads. You will own end-to-end features, design platform APIs, and champion reliability across thousands of Kubernetes clusters.

You will mentor engineers, drive architectural decisions, and partner with product management, SRE, and other teams to deliver scalable, secure infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience delivering scalable software solutions.
• Proven track record of leading the delivery of large-scale, highly available, low-latency systems.
• Deep expertise in Kubernetes including controller development, operator patterns, and multi-cluster architectures.
• Strong proficiency in Go with experience building production-grade distributed systems.
• Experience with multi-tenant platform architectures and security isolation patterns.
• Collaborative across teams including product management, SRE, and other engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Own features end to end for the Compute Platform, such as multi-cluster orchestration, workload placement, and security architecture
• Design and implement platform APIs and Kubernetes operators using Go to support evolving workload requirements
• Deliver high-impact initiatives in areas such as workload scheduling, disruption management, network isolation, rolling update strategies, and cross-cluster resource management
• Lead technical design reviews and drive architectural decisions across organizational boundaries
• Mentor and grow other engineers on the team through code reviews, pairing, and technical guidance
• Own operational aspects including availability, reliability, performance monitoring, emergency response, and disaster recovery for our global compute infrastructure

Skills

Kubernetes

Go

Distributed systems

Multi-tenant architecture

Leadership

Cloud platforms

Job description

IBM Software in Seattle seeks an experienced Software Engineer for the Compute Platform who will help build multi-tenant, cloud-native systems powering Confluent Cloud workloads. You will own end-to-end features, design platform APIs, and champion reliability across thousands of Kubernetes clusters.

You will mentor engineers, drive architectural decisions, and partner with product management, SRE, and other teams to deliver scalable, secure infrastructure.