Senior Engineering Manager, Foundations

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. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. We put information in motion, streaming in near real time so organizations can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them.

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. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. We put information in motion, streaming in near real time so organizations can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them.

Your Role And Responsibilities

About the Role:

We're seeking a hands-on Senior Engineering Manager to join our Experience Foundations team. This team owns critical TEAR (Trusted Experiences Access & Revenue) domains including Security UI, Networking UI, and Billing UI, as well as the shared experience foundations infrastructure (formerly UIF/UI Foundations team).

You'll lead the evolution of our foundations infrastructure from UI-only support to serving the entire Experience organization which includes several other interfaces (API/CLI/TF/VSCode/MCP). Along with this you will help establish patterns and best practices that enable UI engineers to confidently develop security and networking features across our application portfolio—including Governance, Flink, Kafka, Connect, and Tableflow.

In this role, you'll also support the evolution of Networking, Security, and Billing UI experiences, especially as we adopt and integrate the latest and greatest technologies in these domains. As cloud providers introduce new networking capabilities, security standards evolve, and billing models become more sophisticated, you'll ensure our UI stays at the forefront—providing intuitive, scalable interfaces that make complex technical capabilities accessible to our customers.

The Experience Foundations Team Owns Several Critical Pillars

• Security:
  User authentication, authorization, and security experiences (RBAC, BYOK, SSO, API keys, encryption management)
• Networking:
  Network configuration and connectivity interfaces (private networking, VPC peering, Private Link across AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Billing UI:
  Revenue-critical billing and payment experiences (subscription models, multi-month commits, promotional offers, chargebacks, usage tracking
• Experience Foundations
  
  Infrastructure: Shared UI/UX infrastructure and tooling (formerly UIF/UI Foundations), this includes our design system, compliance support, experience performance, accessibility and more.