Staff Software Engineer

Introduction
Ready to grow your career in the Cloud? Want to have a feeling that you are making a difference? This is your chance to become an integral part of a dynamic team of talented professionals developing and deploying innovative industry-leading cloud-based platform services.

IBM Cloud Platform Core Services is a growing agile dynamic organization building and operating leading-edge highly-available and distributed cloud services in IBM Cloud. We’re looking for experienced cloud software engineers to join us. This technical role is focused on designing developing and deploying cloud services automating wide ranges of tasks problem-solving interfacing with other teams to solve complex problems.

You will be part of a strong agile and modern team culture driven to create world-class cloud services delivering an industry leading user experience for our customers. As an integral part of the development team you will get an opportunity to contribute to the cloud services architecture and design while helping us mentor the next generation of cloud engineers.

Your Role and Responsibilities

• Becoming an expert and major contributor for designs and implementation efforts of the IBM Cloud Platform Services ecosystem
• Developing highly-available distributed cloud services with emphasis on security scalability and user experience using technologies like Java Node.js Golang Cloudant Redis Docker Kubernetes Istio and more.
• Identifying opportunities and acting on improving existing tools frameworks and workflows
• Documenting and sharing your experience with team members mentoring others

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• A minimum of a bachelor degree in Computer Science Software Engineering or equivalent
• 1+ year of hands-on development experience building applications with one or more of the following: Java Node.js Golang NoSQL DB Redis distributed caches containers etc.
• 1+ years of experience in web technologies: HTTP REST JSON HTML JavaScript etc.
• Solid understanding of the micro-service architecture and modern cloud programming practices. Strong ability to design a clean developer-friendly API.
• Passionate about constant continuous learning and applying new technologies as well as mentoring others.
• Keen troubleshooting skills and strong verbal/written communication skills.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Software Engineering or equivalent
• Understanding of cybersecurity and cryptography principles certifications and compliance.
• Experience in remotely supporting customer engagements to help driving the adoption
• Experience building and operating highly secured distributed cloud services with one or more of the following: IBM Cloud AWS Azure Docker container orchestration performance testing DevOps etc.