Senior Software Engineer - Fleet Deployment & Orchestration

IBM; Rochester (MN); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM Software in the United States is seeking a Senior Software Engineer II to join the Fleet Management Unified Deployment team. You will help build and evolve the systems that manage Confluent software across Confluent Cloud, including deployment, upgrades, recovery, and lifecycle operations.

The role emphasizes ownership of large-scale, multi-cloud orchestration, platform APIs, and security controls, with opportunities to mentor others and drive reliability across AWS, GCP, and Azure.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience delivering scalable software solutions.
• Deep expertise in Kubernetes, including controller development, operator patterns, and multi-cluster architectures.
• Strong proficiency in Go, with experience building production-grade backend or platform services.
• Experience with fleet-wide lifecycle management, deployment orchestration, or cloud infrastructure automation.
• Experience running production services in cloud environments, with strong knowledge of reliability, networking, and security fundamentals.
• Proven ability to independently own significant technical projects and collaborate effectively across teams.

Responsibilities

• Unified Deployment Control Plane: Build and evolve the control plane that manages software rollout, upgrades, recovery, and lifecycle operations across large multi-cloud fleets.
• Fleet Lifecycle Orchestration: Develop systems that coordinate placement, maintenance, state transitions, and recovery workflows for services running across Confluent Cloud.
• Platform APIs & Abstractions: Design and enhance APIs that provide clean abstractions for deployment workflows, service lifecycle management, and fleet-wide operational controls.
• Cloud Platform Integration: Build and optimize integrations with the broader Confluent Cloud platform to enable seamless end-to-end operations across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
• Multi-Tenancy & Security: Implement and strengthen isolation, security controls, and safe operational boundaries across deployment and runtime management systems.
• Observability & Operations: Drive operational excellence through monitoring, automated health checks, remediation workflows, and self-healing capabilities.

Skills

Kubernetes

Go

Cloud infrastructure

System design

Education

Master's Degree

Job description

IBM Software in the United States is seeking a Senior Software Engineer II to join the Fleet Management Unified Deployment team. You will help build and evolve the systems that manage Confluent software across Confluent Cloud, including deployment, upgrades, recovery, and lifecycle operations.

The role emphasizes ownership of large-scale, multi-cloud orchestration, platform APIs, and security controls, with opportunities to mentor others and drive reliability across AWS, GCP, and Azure.