Senior Platform Engineer — AI-Driven DevProd Tools

International Business Machines Corporation; United States; Remote; USD 86,000 - 136,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and operate internal platform services. You will focus on developer experience, reliability, and scalable, multi-tenant solutions across CI/CD and test ecosystems.

We value hands-on ownership, strong collaboration, and the ability to prototype AI-assisted workflows for developers while shaping rollout plans, documentation, and cross-team coordination across production and pre-prod environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field; 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• Strong background in distributed systems and reliability; proficient in at least one statically typed language (Java/Go) and Python.
• Experience with DevProd/DevOps tooling: CI/CD, containers, and IaC.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate internal developer platform services with multi-tenant capabilities.
• Improve pre-production and performance testing capabilities and automate tests.
• Explore and integrate AI-assisted workflows for developers.
• Deliver projects end to end with clear design docs and milestones.
• Contribute to team culture through mentoring, on-call, and postmortems.

Skills

Distributed systems

Java

Go

Python

CI/CD

Containers

Infrastructure as Code

On-call/Incident response

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Master's degree

Tools

CI/CD

Containers

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

IBM is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and operate internal platform services. You will focus on developer experience, reliability, and scalable, multi-tenant solutions across CI/CD and test ecosystems.

We value hands-on ownership, strong collaboration, and the ability to prototype AI-assisted workflows for developers while shaping rollout plans, documentation, and cross-team coordination across production and pre-prod environments.