Senior Staff Software Engineer, Distributed Storage (Kafka)

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

Job summary

IBM Software is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer for the Confluent Kafka Storage team, remote. You will design and implement a highly available, low-latency storage engine, mentor engineers, and help shape the technical roadmap across multi-tenant cloud infrastructure.

Join a team that values performance, reliability, and collaboration, with opportunities to influence architecture and work with Java/Scala/C/C++/Go on large-scale distributed systems in a global company.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of backend or infrastructure development experience.
• BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience
• Expertise in Java, Scala, C/C++, Go or other statically typed languages
• Proven experience designing and building large-scale, distributed storage systems.
• Deep knowledge of distributed systems concepts, including fault tolerance, consistency, and scalability.
• Solid understanding at a systems level (disk, network, operating systems, etc).
• Strong leadership skills with a demonstrated ability to mentor and guide engineers to success.

Responsibilities

• Storage Engine Development: Design and develop a highly available, performant, reliable, durable, scalable, and multi-tenant storage engine for Kora.
• Engineering Leadership: Set the standard for engineering excellence and drive end-to-end technical solutions.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work with product management, design, and other engineering teams to integrate storage features.
• Mentoring: Mentor engineers and shape the long-term technical direction.

Skills

Backend development

Distributed systems

Leadership

Mentoring

Java/Scala/C/C++/Go

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Apache Kafka

Apache Iceberg

Apache Flink

Job description

IBM Software is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer for the Confluent Kafka Storage team, remote. You will design and implement a highly available, low-latency storage engine, mentor engineers, and help shape the technical roadmap across multi-tenant cloud infrastructure.

Join a team that values performance, reliability, and collaboration, with opportunities to influence architecture and work with Java/Scala/C/C++/Go on large-scale distributed systems in a global company.