Senior Cloud Networking Engineer (Distributed Systems)

IBM; Rochester (MN); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM Software is seeking software engineers to grow the Traffic team responsible for the networking fabric of Confluent Cloud. You will design, develop, and operate high-performance, scalable systems across multi-cloud environments.

The role focuses on building and optimizing network data planes for containerized workloads in the cloud and requires a strong background in distributed systems and modern programming languages.

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.

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

C++

Go

Python

Distributed systems

Public clouds

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Kubernetes

Envoy

Linux networking

eBPF

Job description

IBM Software is seeking software engineers to grow the Traffic team responsible for the networking fabric of Confluent Cloud. You will design, develop, and operate high-performance, scalable systems across multi-cloud environments.

The role focuses on building and optimizing network data planes for containerized workloads in the cloud and requires a strong background in distributed systems and modern programming languages.