Senior Distributed Systems Engineer - Streaming Remote

International Business Machines Corporation; Austin (TX); Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to contribute to WarpStream, a Kafka-compatible data streaming platform built on object storage. You will work across the stack from network-level work to UI enhancements for a great developer experience.

You will tackle distributed systems challenges, build scalable services for AWS, GCP, and Azure, and participate in on-call rotations for reliability and performance across a fully remote, globally

Qualifications

• 5+ years in production backend systems with strong software engineering practices.
• Proficiency in a major programming language (Java/Go/C/C++/Python).
• Experience with distributed systems and storage systems.

Responsibilities

• Independently drive execution of complex technical projects end to end.
• Build mission-critical backend services that deliver value to customers and ensure scalability, performance, and resilience.
• Troubleshoot and debug issues across a complex stack of microservices, containers, and virtualization.
• Ensure operational readiness and meet availability and performance SLAs.

Skills

Java

Go

C/C++

Python

Distributed systems

Backend engineering

Job description

International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to contribute to WarpStream, a Kafka-compatible data streaming platform built on object storage. You will work across the stack from network-level work to UI enhancements for a great developer experience.

You will tackle distributed systems challenges, build scalable services for AWS, GCP, and Azure, and participate in on-call rotations for reliability and performance across a fully remote, globally