What are the responsibilities and job description for the Staff Software Development Engineer position at IBM?
Introduction
You: Are a staff backend software engineer who strives for excellence in technical solutions for large-scale, high-performance distributed systems. You have a curious mind and a passion for continuous improvement. You thrive in an agile and fast-paced environment. Us: We are a high-performing cross-functional team of developers, product managers, and designers. We are passionate about delivering elegant solutions to complex business problems and we have a proven track record of delivering successful features and functionality that delight our customers.
Your Role And Responsibilities
You will work with your scrum team to deliver impactful and valuable features operating on a bi-weekly sprint cadence. You will drive cross-team initiatives by working with product managers, user experience designers, and other engineers to achieve high-quality solutions. In addition, be part of the on-call rotation to help mitigate and solve any issues that may arise from the day-to-day operations of running a service.
Preferred Education
Bachelor's Degree
Required Technical And Professional Expertise
You: Are a staff backend software engineer who strives for excellence in technical solutions for large-scale, high-performance distributed systems. You have a curious mind and a passion for continuous improvement. You thrive in an agile and fast-paced environment. Us: We are a high-performing cross-functional team of developers, product managers, and designers. We are passionate about delivering elegant solutions to complex business problems and we have a proven track record of delivering successful features and functionality that delight our customers.
Your Role And Responsibilities
You will work with your scrum team to deliver impactful and valuable features operating on a bi-weekly sprint cadence. You will drive cross-team initiatives by working with product managers, user experience designers, and other engineers to achieve high-quality solutions. In addition, be part of the on-call rotation to help mitigate and solve any issues that may arise from the day-to-day operations of running a service.
Preferred Education
Bachelor's Degree
Required Technical And Professional Expertise
- 7 years of experience delivering enterprise level software preferably in Golang, Java or C#, other languages also considered
- Proficiency with object-oriented design, data structures, algorithms, and asynchronous architectural design.
- Professional experience building REST APIs. Experience in building large-scale data processing pipelines.
- Professional experience with relational databases, schema design, and SQL. Experience with database implementations (query optimization, index generation, caching).
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and related technologies (Helm, Prometheus, etc.) Strong understanding of containerization technologies like Docker
- Experience with cloud providers like AWS, Azure, GCP or equivalent.
- Proficiency in version control systems like Git
- Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience developing Software as a Service (SaaS) applications and understanding the impact of this architecture in a deployment environment.
- Experience in infrastructure deployment tools such as terraform, etc.
- Experience in production on-call handling; Experience in monitoring and troubleshooting tools such as Datadog, Splunk, PagerDuty, etc.
