Software Developer

Introduction
This is a great opportunity to work with the latest AI and observability technologies including watsonx OpenTelemetry and eBPF as a c/c++/Rust developer on the IBM Instana product team. You will report directly to the Engineering Manager for tracers and profilers and will be responsible for integrating the latest open telemetry specifications as well as contributing to the respective open-source communities. We require or developers to be laser focused on quality and speed of execution. You should understand contemporary software engineering design and development practices and be comfortable working and collaborating with the Product Manager Team lead and with other engineers. If this sounds like you let’s talk!

Your Role and Responsibilities
We are looking for a polyglot developer with either strong C/C++ and/or Rust skills to work on tracing and profiling agents for various runtimes. Knowledge about the runtime APIs of Java PHP or .NET is an asset as is knowledge about the extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) and Linux kernel.
A history of working with GitHub and Open-Source projects will help spearhead our involvement in OpenTelemetry and eBPF. You will be expected to gain an understanding of the respective Open-Source communities their contribution models communication governance strategies and tooling. The successful candidate will contribute to the community itself providing added features and fixes that will help enable our success.
Key tasks to your day-to-day work include:
• Direct communication with Product Managers to plan and implement new features
• Direct communication with customers in context of consulting and ticket-work
• Extend the profiler and tracer capabilities by adding support for new libraries
• Refactor existing code and bring in new ideas
• Diagnose performance and find more efficient ways of achieving our goals
• Work with Open-Source projects and their respective communities
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Required Technical and Professional Expertise
• 5+ years experience with C / C++ or Rust
• Good code writing discipline and an eye for code efficiency
• Strong analytical thinking and problem solving
• Working with GitHub and Open-Source
• Experience working with containerized development environment and runtimes (Docker Kubernetes etc.)
• profiling and tracing skills (proof JProfiler etc.)
• Understanding of agile methodologies
• Fluent in written and spoken English


Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
• OpenTelemetry

Experience with one of:
• Java Runtime API for tracing and profiling
• .NET Runtime for tracing and profiling
• PHP Runtime for tracing and profiling
• Extended Berkeley Packet Filter (ePBF)