Senior Flink Stream Engineer, Cloud

IBM; Ionia (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

401(k) plans

Paid time off

Job summary

IBM Software is seeking a Stream Processing & Analytics engineer to build an elastic, durable stream processing engine on Apache Flink for Confluent Cloud. You will develop user-defined functions and key interfaces to enable customers to run custom pipelines in a managed cloud environment.

You will collaborate with the Flink community, design scalable cloud infrastructure, and ensure production services run with high availability (99.99 SLA) across AWS, GCP, and Azure regions.

Qualifications

• BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience
• 4 years of relevant stream processing experience
• Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development
• Experience running production services in the cloud and being part of oncall rotation
• A self-starter with the ability to work effectively in teams
• Proficiency in Java, and comfortable working with Go and Python

Responsibilities

• Work on Flink user-defined functions to provide a great experience for customers with sophisticated use-cases
• Design, develop and operationalize critical user-facing interfaces as well as the backing cloud infrastructure
• Collaborate with the Apache Flink community to establish standards and improve open source foundations
• Independently drive execution of software projects to deliver complex projects in production with a focus on quality
• Evaluate and enhance the efficiency of our platform’s technology stack, keeping pace with industry trends
• Develop, manage, and maintain a mission-critical service with a 99.99 SLA across 88 regions on AWS, GCP, and Azure
• Enhance stability, performance, scalability, and operational excellence across multiple critical systems

Skills

Java

Python

Go

Distributed systems

On-call rotation

Team collaboration

Cloud familiarity

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Kubernetes

Job description

IBM Software is seeking a Stream Processing & Analytics engineer to build an elastic, durable stream processing engine on Apache Flink for Confluent Cloud. You will develop user-defined functions and key interfaces to enable customers to run custom pipelines in a managed cloud environment.

You will collaborate with the Flink community, design scalable cloud infrastructure, and ensure production services run with high availability (99.99 SLA) across AWS, GCP, and Azure regions.