Senior Cloud Compute Platform Engineer (Kubernetes & Go)

IBM Computing; North Carolina; On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM Software, in partnership with Confluent, seeks a Software Engineer to lead the Compute Platform effort. You will design, build, and operate a cloud-native, multi-tenant compute substrate powering Confluent Cloud workloads.

This role emphasizes Go-based development, Kubernetes mastery, and scalable distributed systems in a global environment. You will mentor peers, define APIs, and own end-to-end delivery from feature design to reliability, security, and observability across regions and cloud

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.
• Track record of working collaboratively 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

Go

Kubernetes

Distributed systems

Multi-tenant architectures

Platform design

Job description

IBM Software, in partnership with Confluent, seeks a Software Engineer to lead the Compute Platform effort. You will design, build, and operate a cloud-native, multi-tenant compute substrate powering Confluent Cloud workloads.

This role emphasizes Go-based development, Kubernetes mastery, and scalable distributed systems in a global environment. You will mentor peers, define APIs, and own end-to-end delivery from feature design to reliability, security, and observability across regions and cloud