Introduction
A career in IBM Software means you'll be part of a team that transforms our customer's challenges into industry-leading solutions. We are an infinitely curious team, always seeking new possibilities, and dedicated to creating the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our network of IBMers. We are a team of deep product experts, ensuring exceptional client experiences, with a focus on delivery, excellence, and obsession over customer outcomes. This position involves contributing to HashiCorp's offerings, now part of IBM, which empower organizations to automate and secure multi-cloud and hybrid environments. You will join a team managing the lifecycle of infrastructure and security, enhancing IBM's cloud solutions to ensure enterprises achieve efficiency, security, and scalability in their cloud journey.
Your role and responsibilities
We're looking for Senior Engineers with a focus in backend development and distributed systems. You'll join teams building a new resource graph system to model, connect and query infrastructure resources, applications, services, and ownership.
These teams ensure that all data flowing into the graph is reliably ingested and efficiently queryable. They own the data ingestion pipeline, ETL and normalization logic, indexing, query performance, and the underlying graph database implementation.
In this role, you will:- Design, build, and debug distributed systems written in Golang.
- Own large projects end-to-end: from design implementation deployment production support.
- Work on various parts of our systems, from cloud provider connectors and developer-facing APIs/SDKs to the graph ingestion pipelines and query optimization.
- Collaborate on a cross-functional team including Engineering, Product, and Design to deliver compelling customer experiences.
- Onboard, mentor, and guide the work of fellow software engineers, sharing your technical knowledge and promoting best practices.
- Participate in an on call rotation to ensure we support our customers and staff members when they need it most.
- Foster diversity, inclusion, and equity within your team.
Required education
High School Diploma/GED
Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
- 5+ years of professional experience as a software engineer
- A cloud-native mindset informed by work with highly-available distributed systems hosted on major cloud providers such as AWS, Azure or Google Cloud Platform
- Familiarity using cloud monitoring tools and observability practices that prioritize
- metrics, logging and tracing to maintain high reliability and performance
- A solid understanding of DevOps principles and best practices for scalability, resilience, and security
- Interest in working in Golang
- A commitment to quality through maintainable code and comprehensive testing from development to deployment
- Familiarity with collaboration practices such as asynchronous communication, pair programming, group troubleshooting, etc.
- Demonstrated business acumen and customer focus
- A readiness for change and adaptability in dynamic situations
Preferred technical and professional experience
- Graph databases (e.g., Neptune, Neo4j, Dgraph) or graph data modeling
- Public-facing APIs, REST/GraphQL APIs, or developer SDKs
- Experience with data-intensive applications, pub/sub systems (Google pub/sub, AWS
- SQS), event-driven systems, ETL pipelines, data modeling, or large-scale data processing
- HashiCorp products (Terraform or Vault in particular)
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OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILSIBM offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program. Eligible employees may have access to:
- Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being
- Financial programs such as 401(k), cash balance pension plan, the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs
- Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law
- Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI-driven learning platform where IBMers can grow skills and obtain industry-recognized certifications to achieve their career goals
- Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences
We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.
This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role.
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.
The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.
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