Software Engineer II: Terraform & Release Reliability

International Business Machines Corporation; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM Software is seeking a Software Engineer II with an SRE/software background and a focus on release engineering in Austin, TX. You will work on release tooling, observability, and platform reliability, collaborating with multiple teams to ship robust software.

You will contribute to production dashboards, incident response, and performance improvements across databases and services, leveraging Rails, Go, PostgreSQL, Redis, and Sidekiq. A strong, collaborative mindset is essential.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of production experience in SRE, release or backend eng for SaaS.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with observability: metrics, logging, alerting, dashboards.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to release safety and reliability.
• Make production measurable with dashboards, SLOs, and alerts.
• Improve the platform across services and databases.
• Participate in incident response and on-call rotation.

Skills

SRE

Release engineering

Backend engineering

CI/CD

Observability

Tools

Ruby on Rails

Go

PostgreSQL

Redis

Sidekiq

Job description

IBM Software is seeking a Software Engineer II with an SRE/software background and a focus on release engineering in Austin, TX. You will work on release tooling, observability, and platform reliability, collaborating with multiple teams to ship robust software.

You will contribute to production dashboards, incident response, and performance improvements across databases and services, leveraging Rails, Go, PostgreSQL, Redis, and Sidekiq. A strong, collaborative mindset is essential.