Staff Software Engineer — Real-Time Context Engine & Scale

International Business Machines Corporation; Poughkeepsie (AR); On-site; USD 160,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to advance the Realtime Context Engine project, focusing on scalable query execution, materialization, and multi-tenant infrastructure. You will tackle challenges in high availability and performance across Confluent Cloud, aligning with product goals.

You will collaborate with product and design teams to ensure seamless integration of storage features and distributed systems.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional experience building database technologies.
• Experience designing and operating large-scale database systems.
• Distributed systems expertise across cloud or on-prem deployments.
• Excellent communication and collaboration with stakeholders at all levels.
• Master's degree in a related field preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop core components for query execution and materialization at scale.
• Design multi-tenant, highly available compute infrastructure.
• Collaborate with product, design, and other engineering teams on storage features.

Skills

C++

Rust

Distributed Systems

Database technologies

Communication

Education

Master's Degree

Tools

Apache Iceberg

Velox

Substrait

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to advance the Realtime Context Engine project, focusing on scalable query execution, materialization, and multi-tenant infrastructure. You will tackle challenges in high availability and performance across Confluent Cloud, aligning with product goals.

You will collaborate with product and design teams to ensure seamless integration of storage features and distributed systems.