Senior Software Engineer - Real-Time Context Engine (Kafka)

International Business Machines Corporation; United States; Remote; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM Software is transforming client challenges into AI-powered, cloud-native solutions. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will advance the Realtime Context Engine, focusing on multi-tenant, scalable compute infrastructure, query execution, and background materialization across Confluent Cloud.

You will work with C++ and/or Rust, contribute to database technologies, and collaborate across engineering teams to ensure robust, scalable platform features for our customers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or higher in CS or a related field.
• Master’s Degree preferred.
• Strong background in database technologies is required.
• Experience building and operating large-scale database systems.
• Experience with distributed systems and modern cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement query execution strategies at massive scale.
• Build and maintain multi-tenant, highly available infra for compute tasks.
• Collaborate with product management, design, and other engineering teams.

Skills

C++

Rust

Database experience

Distributed systems

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in CS or related field

Master’s Degree

Computer Science with database specialization

Tools

Apache Iceberg

Velox

Substrait

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

IBM Software is transforming client challenges into AI-powered, cloud-native solutions. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will advance the Realtime Context Engine, focusing on multi-tenant, scalable compute infrastructure, query execution, and background materialization across Confluent Cloud.

You will work with C++ and/or Rust, contribute to database technologies, and collaborate across engineering teams to ensure robust, scalable platform features for our customers.