Staff Software Engineer II - Secure Compute Platform

International Business Machines Corporation; Atlanta (GA); Remote; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM Software seeks a Staff Software Engineer to join the Secure Compute Platform team. You will lead development of a multi-tenant, cloud-native compute platform across AWS, Azure, and GCP, using Kubernetes and Go to deliver secure, scalable workloads.

You will mentor engineers, drive architecture reviews, and collaborate with product and SRE teams to ensure high availability, reliability, and cost efficiency for mission-critical workloads.

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, including controller development and multi-region or multi-cluster architectures.
• Strong proficiency in Go with production-grade services and control planes.
• Experience with multi-tenant platform architectures and security/isolation patterns.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the technical direction for Secure Compute, including platform architecture, runtime, and security for running trusted and untrusted workloads at scale.
• Design and implement platform APIs and Kubernetes controllers/operators (primarily in Go) that power workload lifecycle, autoscaling, placement, and isolation for containers and serverless-style functions.
• Partner with product and platform teams to shape and deliver the roadmap for Secure Compute, enabling new customer-facing features and internal platforms to build on a common compute substrate.
• Deliver high-impact initiatives in areas such as workload scheduling, failure and disruption handling, private and public networking patterns, rollout strategies, and fleet-level resource management.
• Lead technical design reviews and influence architecture across teams, ensuring Secure Compute primitives are easy to adopt, safe by default, and aligned with broader platform strategy.
• Mentor and grow engineers on the team through design guidance, code reviews, pair programming, and sharing best practices for secure, reliable, operable platform development.
• Own operational excellence for key Secure Compute services, including availability, reliability, SLOs, performance, on-call response, incident management, and disaster recovery.

Skills

Kubernetes

Go

Distributed systems

Security

Multi-tenant architecture

Cloud platforms

Observability

Leadership

Mentorship

Controller development

Tools

Go tooling

Protobuf

gRPC

Cloud SDKs

Job description

IBM Software seeks a Staff Software Engineer to join the Secure Compute Platform team. You will lead development of a multi-tenant, cloud-native compute platform across AWS, Azure, and GCP, using Kubernetes and Go to deliver secure, scalable workloads.

You will mentor engineers, drive architecture reviews, and collaborate with product and SRE teams to ensure high availability, reliability, and cost efficiency for mission-critical workloads.