Senior Cloud Networking Engineer

IBM; Poughkeepsie (AR); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM Software is seeking software engineers to grow our Traffic team, building and managing the networking fabric of Confluent Cloud. The role focuses on large-scale distributed systems, with an emphasis on the data plane for containerized workloads in the cloud.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in cloud infrastructure, strong C++/Go/Python skills, and experience with public clouds. Join a team driving high performance, security, and cost optimization across multiple clouds.

Qualifications

• Education in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 5+ years of relevant cloud infrastructure/cloud networking experience.
• Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development.
• Experience building and operating large-scale systems.
• Solid understanding of basic systems operations (disk, network, operating systems, etc).
• A self-starter with the ability to work effectively in teams.
• Proficiency in C++, Go, Python, or other statically typed languages.
• Experience with public clouds (AWS, Azure or GCP).

Responsibilities

• Build the software underpinning the mission-critical Confluent Cloud network data plane platform.
• Independently drive execution of software projects to deliver complex projects in production with a focus on quality.
• Build upon open source software to deliver business impact.
• Troubleshoot issues and improve ops for complex technical stack that spans all the 3 clouds and includes microservices, containers, and virtualization

Skills

Distributed systems

Cloud infrastructure

C++

Go

Python

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Kubernetes Networking

Envoy

Linux kernel networking

eBPF

Job description

IBM Software is seeking software engineers to grow our Traffic team, building and managing the networking fabric of Confluent Cloud. The role focuses on large-scale distributed systems, with an emphasis on the data plane for containerized workloads in the cloud.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in cloud infrastructure, strong C++/Go/Python skills, and experience with public clouds. Join a team driving high performance, security, and cost optimization across multiple clouds.