Senior Distributed Systems Engineer - Remote Backend

International Business Machines Corporation; Boston (KY); Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM Software seeks a Senior Engineer for WarpStream, a Kafka-compatible streaming platform built on object storage. You will own backend services, contribute to the storage engine, and scale the multi-tenant control plane across AWS, GCP, and Azure.

The role spans the full stack, with remote, distributed teammates and opportunities to shape developer experience. You will solve complex distributed systems challenges at scale, write code, and collaborate across teams to deliver high-performance,

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend system design, scaling, and production support.
• Proficiency in Java, Go, C/C++, or Python.
• Experience with distributed systems and storage.
• Strong delivery focus and communication.
• Customer-centric mindset and teamwork.

Responsibilities

• Drive execution of complex technical projects end to end.
• Build backend services for high performance and scalability.
• Troubleshoot issues in a microservices, containers, and virtualization stack.
• Ensure services meet availability and performance SLAs.

Skills

Distributed systems

Backend development

Java

Go

C/C++

Python

System design

Troubleshooting

Communication skills

Mentorship

Education

Master's Degree

Tools

Apache Kafka

HTML/JavaScript

Containers

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

IBM Software seeks a Senior Engineer for WarpStream, a Kafka-compatible streaming platform built on object storage. You will own backend services, contribute to the storage engine, and scale the multi-tenant control plane across AWS, GCP, and Azure.

The role spans the full stack, with remote, distributed teammates and opportunities to shape developer experience. You will solve complex distributed systems challenges at scale, write code, and collaborate across teams to deliver high-performance,