Senior Distributed Systems Engineer - Remote, Kafka & Cloud

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

Job summary

IBM Software’s WarpStream team seeks a Senior Engineer to build and scale backend services on a distributed platform built on object storage. You’ll work across the stack from network-level details to a developer-friendly UI, contributing to features such as transactions and multi-region deployments.

This fully remote, geographically distributed team spans Spain, France, Canada, Ireland, and the USA, emphasizing reliability, performance, and customer value.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend system design, scaling, and production support.
• Proficiency in Java, Go, C/C++, or Python.
• Distributed systems and storage systems enthusiast.
• Strong delivery focus and communication; customer-centric.

Responsibilities

• Drive end-to-end execution of complex technical projects.
• Architect, design, develop, and operationalize high-performance services.
• Troubleshoot issues in microservices, containers, virtualization.
• Ensure service readiness and meet SLA commitments.

Skills

Backend development

Distributed systems

Java

Go

C/C++

Python

On-call experience

Mentorship

Education

Master's Degree

Job description

IBM Software’s WarpStream team seeks a Senior Engineer to build and scale backend services on a distributed platform built on object storage. You’ll work across the stack from network-level details to a developer-friendly UI, contributing to features such as transactions and multi-region deployments.

This fully remote, geographically distributed team spans Spain, France, Canada, Ireland, and the USA, emphasizing reliability, performance, and customer value.