Software Engineer - DBaaS Serverless

  • San Jose, CA
  • Posted 6 hours ago | Updated 6 hours ago

Overview

On Site
Full Time

Skills

Research
Apache Cassandra
Streaming
Microservices
ProVision
Management
Database
Production Engineering
Quality Assurance
Software Engineering
IaaS
Amazon Web Services
Google Cloud
Google Cloud Platform
Microsoft Azure
Computer Networking
Network
NAT
Programming Languages
Python
Java
Configuration Management
Terraform
Kubernetes
SDK
Business Operations
Machine Learning (ML)
Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Software Modernization
Sustainability
Data Centers
Innovation
Collaboration
Science
Cloud Computing
IBM SmartCloud
Artificial Intelligence
Blockchain
Genetics
Regulatory Compliance
Immigration
IBM

Job Details

Introduction

A career in IBM Software means you'll be part of a team that transforms our customer's challenges into solutions.

Seeking new possibilities and always staying curious, we are a team dedicated to creating the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions for our customers. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our IBMers, so the door is always open for those who want to grow their career.

IBM's product and technology landscape includes Research, Software, and Infrastructure. Entering this domain positions you at the heart of IBM, where growth and innovation thrive.

Your role and responsibilities

Astra DB is a wildly successful cloud-native database as a service (DBaaS) powered by Apache Cassandra. We're looking for a software engineer to join our Astra Platform Infrastructure team. Our team owns the foundational infrastructure and services that enable customers to launch and manage their Astra DB instances.

What you will do:
  • Design, develop, and maintain a wide variety of software and cloud infrastructure for DataStax's Astra platform infrastructure, providing a "platform as a service" to internal DataStax customers, and providing a seamless database and streaming management experience to DataStax's cloud customers.
  • Design, develop, and maintain software microservices, primarily for use to provision and manage cloud databases.
  • Codify best practices by creating tools, APIs and SDKs, and utilities which enable and accelerate the development of our infrastructure and distributed services.
  • Participate in on-call activities, acting as a secondary on-call support person for Production Engineering teams who require assistance with complex production issues.
    • Is passionate about software quality, improving the design/development process, and building highly available systems
    • Enjoys a highly diverse, collaborative, and cross-functional environment
    • Stays abreast of modern technologies and practices especially in cloud native space
    • Fosters long-term team success and contributes to a healthy work environment.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

  • Minimum of 7-9 years of relevant industry experience in Software Engineering
  • Solid experience with / proficiency with public cloud infrastructure -- at least one of Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, or Microsoft Azure.
  • Expertise in Kubernetes, including configuration, usage as an application platform, maintenance, scaling, networking and troubleshooting.
  • Solid understanding of Kubernetes and cloud network concepts such as ingress controllers, CNI, VPCs, NAT, and Private Link
  • 3-5+ years of development experience with programming languages such as Go/Python/Java (preferably Go)
  • Experience building highly scalable distributed systems on Kubernetes
  • Expertise in infrastructure configuration management tools like Terraform and Crossplane..
  • Experience with Kubernetes development using tools and libraries like operator-sdk, kubebuilder, controller-runtime, and client-go.

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 be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we're also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it's time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.
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