Staff Cloud Networking Engineer – Traffic & Data Plane

IBM; Ionia (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

401(k) retirement plan

Paid time off

Job summary

IBM Software is seeking a senior software engineer to join the Traffic team, building and operating the cloud networking data plane for Confluent Cloud. You will design high-performance, scalable systems, collaborate across teams, and contribute to open source projects.

You’ll work on networking, cloud infrastructure, and multi-tenancy with a strong emphasis on reliability, security, and cost optimization across AWS/Azure/GCP environments. Remote US-based.

Qualifications

• 8 years of relevant cloud infrastructure/cloud networking experience.
• Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development.
• Experience building and operating large-scale systems.
• Solid understanding of basic systems operations (storage, network, operating systems, etc.).
• Proficiency in C, Go, Python, or other statically typed languages.
• Experience/knowledge with public clouds (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Experience building and managing Layer 7 proxies, especially cloud-native proxies such as Envoy.

Responsibilities

• Build the software underpinning the mission-critical Confluent Cloud network data plane platform.
• Deliver high impact to the business by driving important technical initiatives in areas comprising networking, cloud infrastructure, and multi-tenancy.
• Independently drive execution of software projects as well as technically lead a team of engineers to deliver impact in production with a focus on quality.
• Build upon open source software and engage with upstream community to deliver business impact.
• Troubleshoot issues and improve ops for complex technical stack that spans all the 3 clouds and includes microservices, containers, and virtualization.

Skills

C

Go

Python

Distributed systems

Public clouds

Envoy

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree

Tools

Envoy

Kubernetes

Job description

IBM Software is seeking a senior software engineer to join the Traffic team, building and operating the cloud networking data plane for Confluent Cloud. You will design high-performance, scalable systems, collaborate across teams, and contribute to open source projects.

You’ll work on networking, cloud infrastructure, and multi-tenancy with a strong emphasis on reliability, security, and cost optimization across AWS/Azure/GCP environments. Remote US-based.