Staff Software Engineer II - Cloud Networking (Remote)

IBM; Lowell (MA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM Software invites a Staff Software Engineer 2 to join the Traffic team, owning the networking fabric for Confluent Cloud. The role spans architecting, designing, and delivering high-performance data-plane systems across Kubernetes clusters in AWS, Azure, and GCP.

You will lead multi-cloud networking initiatives, mentor engineers, and evolve production systems with a focus on reliability and scale, while engaging with open source communities to drive impact.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant cloud infrastructure/cloud networking experience.
• Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development.
• Experience building and operating large-scale systems.
• Experience leading a team of engineers and working cross-team to deliver complex infrastructure projects.
• 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. You will play a crucial role in architecting, designing, developing and operationalizing high performance, scalable, reliable and resilient systems.
• Deliver high impact to the business by driving important technical initiatives in areas comprising (but not limited to) 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 the 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.

Education

Master's Degree

Job description

IBM Software invites a Staff Software Engineer 2 to join the Traffic team, owning the networking fabric for Confluent Cloud. The role spans architecting, designing, and delivering high-performance data-plane systems across Kubernetes clusters in AWS, Azure, and GCP.

You will lead multi-cloud networking initiatives, mentor engineers, and evolve production systems with a focus on reliability and scale, while engaging with open source communities to drive impact.