Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer - Go & Kubernetes

IBM; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM Software is shaping the future of AI-powered, cloud-native products and digital transformation. This role focuses on designing, building, and evolving internal infrastructure services in Go, operating at scale across global regions.

You will own secure, observable, and reliable cloud infrastructure, collaborate with distributed teams, and participate in a follow-the-sun on-call rotation to ensure high availability and fast deployment of services.

Qualifications

• Strong programming skills with the ability to read, debug, and evolve existing code (Go, Java, or Python)
• Deep understanding of systems internals (filesystems, memory, networking, kernel behavior) and large-scale system performance
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production and modern cloud-native ecosystems, including containers and public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Expertise in automation and reliability practices—GitOps, Terraform, CI/CD, observability—and experience diagnosing and improving complex systems

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and evolve internal infrastructure services written in Go, often as Kubernetes operators, that power the core platform behind Confluent Cloud
• Own the systems that make cloud infrastructure secure, scalable, observable, and reliable, using GitOps, Terraform, Prometheus, Grafana, and a strong foundation in Linux, networking, and public cloud
• Collaborate with engineers across Confluent to enable fast, safe, and autonomous deployment of services through shared platform tooling and best practices
• Take shared responsibility for the full lifecycle of our infrastructure: availability, performance, monitoring, incident response, and capacity planning
• Work on systems at scale, across tens of thousands of instances and multiple regions, with a focus on smooth, fast, and safe operations
• Influence the architecture and operational strategy behind the critical infrastructure that supports all of Confluent’s cloud services
• Participate in a 8-hour, follow-the-sun on-call rotation.

Skills

Go

Java

Python

Tools

Kubernetes

GitOps

Terraform

Prometheus

Grafana

Linux

Job description

IBM Software is shaping the future of AI-powered, cloud-native products and digital transformation. This role focuses on designing, building, and evolving internal infrastructure services in Go, operating at scale across global regions.

You will own secure, observable, and reliable cloud infrastructure, collaborate with distributed teams, and participate in a follow-the-sun on-call rotation to ensure high availability and fast deployment of services.