Senior Software Engineer II; Remote

Position: Senior Software Engineer II (Remote)
Introduction

At IBM Software, we transform client challenges into solutions. Building the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native products that shape the future of business and society. Our legacy of innovation creates endless opportunities for IBMers to learn, grow, and make an impact on a global scale. Working in Software means joining a team fueled by curiosity and collaboration.

You'll work with diverse technologies, partners, and industries to design, develop, and deliver solutions that power digital transformation. With a culture that values innovation, growth, and continuous learning, IBM Software places you at the heart of IBM's product and technology landscape. Here, you'll have the tools and opportunities to advance your career while creating software that changes the world.

Your role and responsibilities

To unlock Confluent's full potential, we're growing our Continuous Delivery tooling team-an essential group responsible for powering the automation behind Confluent Cloud service delivery. This is a high-impact, strategic investment area that directly improves R&D engineering productivity, strengthens compliance, and accelerates our operational maturity at scale.

We're looking for software engineers who are excited about building mission-critical internal platforms and who care deeply about the developer experience. If you're passionate about engineering productivity, system reliability, and high-quality delivery, this is an opportunity to make a meaningful, company-wide impact.

What You'll Do

* Design and build scalable Golang-based tooling that enables Confluent Cloud teams to deliver software safely, securely, and efficiently

* Own and drive end-to-end execution of complex projects in production environments, with a strong focus on quality and reliability

* Apply industry best practices and modern design patterns to create innovative, best-in-class solutions

* Partner closely with internal stakeholders, bringing a customer-first mindset to support a wide range of use cases and teams

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

* 3+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure or cloud networking

* Strong foundation in systems design, development, and low-level concepts (OS, networking, storage)

* Experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems

* Proficiency in Go, C++, Python, or other statically typed languages

* Hands-on experience with public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and container orchestration (Kubernetes)

Preferred technical and professional experience

● Experience working on developer productivity tooling

● Experience with EKS, GKE or AKS specific Kubernetes distributions

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence-from machine learning to generative AI-to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it.

In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM's AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM's hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments-a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you'll be encouraged to…