Senior Cloud Compute Platform Engineer

IBM Computing; Rochester (MN); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM Software in Minnesota seeks a senior Software Engineer to join the Compute Platform team, leading end-to-end features across multi-tenant, cloud-native compute workloads. You will design APIs, implement Kubernetes operators in Go, and drive reliability and security across global infrastructure.

You’ll mentor engineers, influence architectural decisions, and collaborate with product management, SRE, and other teams to deliver scalable, highly available systems for enterprise customers.

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.

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

Leadership

Multi-tenant architecture

Tools

Protobuf

gRPC

Kubernetes controllers

Job description

IBM Software in Minnesota seeks a senior Software Engineer to join the Compute Platform team, leading end-to-end features across multi-tenant, cloud-native compute workloads. You will design APIs, implement Kubernetes operators in Go, and drive reliability and security across global infrastructure.

You’ll mentor engineers, influence architectural decisions, and collaborate with product management, SRE, and other teams to deliver scalable, highly available systems for enterprise customers.