Senior Distributed Systems Engineer - Remote

International Business Machines Corporation; Rochester (MN); Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM Software is hiring a Senior Engineer to design, implement, and operate high‑performance backend services on WarpStream. You will work across the stack from storage engines to the developer console, optimizing scalability and resilience for multi‑region deployments.

The role requires deep distributed systems knowledge, strong coding skills in Java/Go/C/C++/Python, and a passion for delivering reliable systems with a customer‑centric mindset.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend engineering in production systems.
• Proficiency in Java, Go, C/C++, or Python.
• Strong interest in distributed and storage systems.
• Excellent delivery focus and communication.
• Team leadership, mentorship, and customer focus.

Responsibilities

• Independently drive execution of complex technical projects end to end.
• Build backend services that are high performance, scalable, and reliable.
• Troubleshoot and debug across a distributed stack with containers and virtualization.
• Ensure operational readiness and meet availability SLAs for customers.

Skills

Backend systems

Distributed systems

Java

Go

C/C++

Python

On-call experience

Mentorship

Education

Master's Degree

Tools

Apache Kafka

Job description

IBM Software is hiring a Senior Engineer to design, implement, and operate high‑performance backend services on WarpStream. You will work across the stack from storage engines to the developer console, optimizing scalability and resilience for multi‑region deployments.

The role requires deep distributed systems knowledge, strong coding skills in Java/Go/C/C++/Python, and a passion for delivering reliable systems with a customer‑centric mindset.