Senior Secure Compute Platform Engineer

IBM; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 161,000 - 299,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

401(k) plan

Paid time off

Job summary

IBM is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Secure Compute Platform to lead design and delivery of a cloud-native, multi-tenant compute substrate. You will work across public clouds, Kubernetes, and Go to build secure, scalable workloads with strong focus on reliability and performance.

You will mentor engineers, drive architecture decisions, and partner with product teams to align roadmaps while maintaining high availability, security, and cost efficiency for mission-critical workloads

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience delivering scalable backend or infrastructure software in production.
• Proven track record of leading the delivery of large-scale, highly available, low-latency distributed systems.
• Deep expertise in Kubernetes, including controller development and operator patterns.
• Strong proficiency in Go with production-grade services and control planes.
• Experience with multi-tenant platform architectures and security/isolation patterns.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the technical direction for Secure Compute, including platform architecture, runtime, and security for running trusted and untrusted workloads at scale.
• Design and implement platform APIs and Kubernetes controllers/operators (Go) that power workload lifecycle, autoscaling, placement, and isolation.
• Partner with product and platform teams to shape and deliver the roadmap for Secure Compute.
• Deliver high-impact initiatives in areas such as workload scheduling, networking patterns, rollout strategies, and resource management.
• Lead technical design reviews and mentor engineers across teams for secure, reliable platform development.
• Own operational excellence for Secure Compute services, including availability, SLOs, incident response, and disaster recovery.

Skills

Kubernetes

Go

Distributed systems

Multi-tenant

Security

Mentorship

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree

Tools

gRPC

Protobuf

Job description

IBM is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Secure Compute Platform to lead design and delivery of a cloud-native, multi-tenant compute substrate. You will work across public clouds, Kubernetes, and Go to build secure, scalable workloads with strong focus on reliability and performance.

You will mentor engineers, drive architecture decisions, and partner with product teams to align roadmaps while maintaining high availability, security, and cost efficiency for mission-critical workloads