IBM R&D Back-End Developer (f/m/x)

Introduction
The Instana Java Tracer team is looking for a Senior Backend Software Engineer to join our team in Böblingen. As a member of the Java tracer team you will be working in our Observability platform Instana. At Instana we process and analyze millions of spans traces metrics and events per second in order to provide actionable APM intelligence to our rapidly expanding customer base. Team Java is responsible for Instana’s APM capability of JVM applications. Metrics Traces Logs and Profiles for JVM applications will be taken care by the team. If you have a natural curiosity for digging deep into JVM you will be a good fit for our team as the job will require you to understand how Java technologies and frameworks work behind the screen.

Your Role and Responsibilities
As a member of Team Java you responsibilities will include:
– Work with Product Manager for new features and for providing tracing support for new Java/Kotlin/Scala frameworks and cloud support
– Maintain and evolve the core infrastructure
– Debug issues reported by our customers
– Be informed about new JDK features and their implications for Instana and collaborate with the team to find solutions
– Collaborate with other tracer teams for cross-team initiatives
– Support Junior engineers when needed
– Improve developer environment with tools and pipelines

Required Technical and Professional Expertise
• 5+ years of professional experience programming Java
• Good code writing discipline and an eye for code efficiency
• Strong analytical and problem solving thinking
• JDK 11 Spring framework
• Maven Github
• JVM internals
• JVM profiling skills (JFR JProfiler)
• Understanding of agile methodologies e.g. Kanban
• Fluent in written and spoken English
• Permission to work in the EU

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
• Experience in distributed tracing
• C++
• Kotlin Scala
• Project Reactor Netty
• Application servers like Weblogic Websphere
• Bash/python for tooling