Senior Software Engineer - Fleet Deployment Platform

IBM; Poughkeepsie (AR); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM Software is seeking a Senior Software Engineer II on the Fleet Management Unified Deployment team to build systems that manage Confluent software across Confluent Cloud. You will help orchestrate deployment, upgrades, recovery, and lifecycle management across multi-cloud environments.

You will design platform APIs, work across AWS, GCP, and Azure, and strengthen security and observability. This role can be performed from anywhere in the US, offering opportunities to lead impactful technical

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

• Build and evolve a control plane for software rollout, upgrades, and lifecycle ops across multi-cloud fleets.
• Coordinate fleet lifecycle across Confluent Cloud with placement, maintenance, and recovery workflows.
• Design APIs and abstractions for deployment workflows and service lifecycles.
• Integrate with AWS, GCP, and Azure for end-to-end operations.
• Strengthen multi-tenant security isolation within deployment and runtimes.
• Drive observability with monitoring, health checks, remediation workflows, and self-healing capabilities.

Skills

Kubernetes

Go

Cloud platforms

Deployment orchestration

API design

Security isolation

Observability

Education

Master's degree

Tools

Multi-cloud environments

gRPC/Protobuf

Job description

IBM Software is seeking a Senior Software Engineer II on the Fleet Management Unified Deployment team to build systems that manage Confluent software across Confluent Cloud. You will help orchestrate deployment, upgrades, recovery, and lifecycle management across multi-cloud environments.

You will design platform APIs, work across AWS, GCP, and Azure, and strengthen security and observability. This role can be performed from anywhere in the US, offering opportunities to lead impactful technical