Staff Platform Engineer – Secure Compute & Kubernetes

IBM; United States; On-site; USD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

401(k) plan

Paid vacation and holidays

Training and educational resources

Diverse and inclusive employee groups

Job summary

IBM is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Secure Compute Platform team who will lead technical efforts in building a cloud-native platform. The ideal candidate will have strong proficiency in Kubernetes and Go, with responsibilities spanning the design of APIs and system integrations.

This role offers an opportunity to lead initiatives enhancing operational excellence and to mentor engineers while delivering impactful features in a highly collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience delivering scalable backend or infrastructure software in production.
• Proven track record of leading the delivery of large-scale, highly available, low-latency distributed systems.
• Deep expertise in Kubernetes and strong proficiency in Go.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the technical direction for Secure Compute.
• Design and implement platform APIs and Kubernetes controllers/operators.
• Partner with product and platform teams to shape and deliver the roadmap for Secure Compute.

Skills

Kubernetes

Go

Cloud environments

Observability practices

Technical leadership

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree

Tools

gRPC

Protobuf

Linux internals

Job description

IBM is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Secure Compute Platform team who will lead technical efforts in building a cloud-native platform. The ideal candidate will have strong proficiency in Kubernetes and Go, with responsibilities spanning the design of APIs and system integrations.

This role offers an opportunity to lead initiatives enhancing operational excellence and to mentor engineers while delivering impactful features in a highly collaborative environment.