Senior Software Engineer II — Fleet Deployment & Cloud

International Business Machines Corporation; City of Poughkeepsie (NY); Remote; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM Software is seeking a Senior Software Engineer II to drive the fleet management lifecycle across Confluent Cloud. You will engineer the unified deployment control plane, coordinate multi-cloud upgrades, and build APIs that empower scalable, secure operations.

You will own critical backend services, implement multi-tenant security patterns, and mentor teammates while collaborating with global teams. This remote role offers broad impact across AWS, GCP, and Azure and opportunities to influence

Qualifications

• 6+ years delivering scalable software.
• Deep Kubernetes expertise and operator patterns.
• Strong Go backend experience.
• Experience with fleet-wide lifecycle management.
• Cloud environments with focus on reliability, networking and security.
• Ability to own significant projects and collaborate across teams.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve the fleet deployment control plane for multi-cloud environments.
• Develop fleet lifecycle orchestration and upgrade workflows.
• Design platform APIs and abstractions for deployment and operations.
• Integrate with AWS, GCP, and Azure for end-to-end service operations.
• Enhance multi-tenant security and observability of systems.

Skills

Kubernetes

Go

Multi-cloud

APIs design

Reliability

Tools

Docker

Terraform

gRPC

Job description

IBM Software is seeking a Senior Software Engineer II to drive the fleet management lifecycle across Confluent Cloud. You will engineer the unified deployment control plane, coordinate multi-cloud upgrades, and build APIs that empower scalable, secure operations.

You will own critical backend services, implement multi-tenant security patterns, and mentor teammates while collaborating with global teams. This remote role offers broad impact across AWS, GCP, and Azure and opportunities to influence