Staff Platform Engineer - Secure Compute & Cloud-Native

IBM; Armonk (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-friendly

Job summary

IBM is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead development of the Secure Compute Platform, a multi-tenant, cloud-native compute substrate built on Kubernetes that runs trusted and untrusted workloads at scale. You will mentor engineers, shape architecture across teams, and partner with product and SRE to deliver reliable infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and GCP.

Join IBM Software to drive secure, scalable infrastructure, improve performance, and collaborate with a world-class team delivering

Qualifications

• Proven experience delivering scalable backend or infrastructure software in production.
• Track record of leading large-scale, highly available distributed systems.
• Deep Kubernetes expertise, including controllers/operators and multi-region architectures.

Responsibilities

• Define technical direction for Secure Compute, including architecture and security for trusted/untrusted workloads.
• Design platform APIs and Kubernetes controllers to manage container lifecycles and isolation.
• Collaborate with product/SRE teams to deliver roadmaps and ensure reliability and security.

Skills

Kubernetes

Go

Distributed systems

Security

Cloud platforms

Education

Master's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Go

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

IBM is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead development of the Secure Compute Platform, a multi-tenant, cloud-native compute substrate built on Kubernetes that runs trusted and untrusted workloads at scale. You will mentor engineers, shape architecture across teams, and partner with product and SRE to deliver reliable infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and GCP.

Join IBM Software to drive secure, scalable infrastructure, improve performance, and collaborate with a world-class team delivering