Senior Developer (Backend) Principal SE

Introduction

A career in IBM Software means you'll be part of a team that transforms our customers' challenges into solutions.

Seeking new possibilities and always staying curious, we are a team dedicated to creating the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions for our customers. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our IBMers, so the door is always open for those who want to grow their career.

We are seeking a skilled back-end developer to join our IBM Software team. As part of our team, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining high-quality software products, working with a variety of technologies and programming languages. You will contribute to the open-source project Kruize Autotune and support Red Hat products, including Insights Cost Management and OpenShift.

IBM's product and technology landscape includes Research, Software, and Infrastructure. Entering this domain positions you at the heart of IBM, where growth and innovation thrive.

Your role and responsibilities

• As a key member of our dynamic team, you will play a vital role in architecting exceptional software experience, designing, developing and deploying scalable, secure backend systems using Java, J2EE, JS and GoLang
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to an agile team to accurately estimate and deliver complex features on time by implementing innovative features, fine-tuning and sustaining existing code for delivering performance optimization solutions using AI for Kubernetes applications, including optimal performance, observability and guaranteeing top-notch quality through rigorous testing and debugging.
• Implement robust RESTful APIs and micro-services aligned with enterprise cloud-native standards.
• Establish coding standards, influence architectural direction, and promote the adoption of best practices across backend systems.
• Own performance tuning, monitoring, and high availability for backend services using tools like Prometheus, ELK, and Grafana.
• Implement security, compliance, and privacy by design principles in backend systems.
• Work closely with engineering leaders, product managers, and designers to ensure seamless alignment between software development and user expectations, and represent the team at company events and conferences.
• Collaboration is at the heart of what we do, and you'll be mentoring and guiding junior engineers, working with fellow developers, designers, and product managers to ensure our software aligns seamlessly with user expectations, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement.
• Actively participate in Agile ceremonies and contribute to continuous delivery and process improvement.
• You will also stay abreast of the latest advancements in systems engineering, performance optimization and AI, driving their adoption within the organization.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

Software Development Expertise:

• 15+ years of experience developing object-oriented server-side applications. Deep expertise in Java, Python, J2EE, JS and GoLang for building distributed backend systems. Strong expertise in web programming, like REST and HTTP. Experience developing in a Linux environment is a must.

Cloud Technology Proficiency:

• Proven track record with microservices architecture, including Docker, Kubernetes, and service deployment patterns. Expert-level familiarity with backend-focused CI/CD tooling (Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, ArgoCD) and IaC tools (Terraform, CloudFormation). Strong knowledge of monitoring/logging tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, and Splunk, focusing on backend telemetry and observability

Relational Database Knowledge:

• Advanced experience in architecting and implementing RESTful APIs, service meshes, and inter-service communication. Expert in Postgres or equivalent RDBMS - data modelling, indexing, and performance optimization at scale

Self-Starter Mindset:

• A self-starter with a proactive mindset, able to initiate and drive projects independently. Highly organised and able to balance multiple priorities. Growth mindset: Ability to quickly learn new technologies and processes

Excellent Problem-Solving Skills:

• Demonstrated excellence in problem-solving, with the ability to tackle complex issues and find effective solutions.

Leadership skills:

• Excellent communication skills, assertiveness and leadership qualities. Experience managing multiple stakeholders across planning, tracking and overall execution.
• Dedication to transparency: ability to report issues and risks and find solutions.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• 15+ years of overall work experience, with proven ability to manage projects and activities, self motivated technical leader with proven expertise architecting backend design and strategy for Java, Kubernetes and Cloud domain
• Experience in setting technical direction and strategy for Gen AI, AI/ML projects
• Proficient programming skills in Java, Python, Go Lang and experience with cloud platforms like AWS/GCP/IBM Cloud/Azure. Previous experience with JEE and Hibernate will be a plus.
• Experience with open source communities and development.
• Extensive experience with generative AI technologies, including RAG, Vector DBs, and frameworks such as LangChain and Hugging Face, Agentic AI
• Extensive experience with AI/ML frameworks and libraries such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, and scikit-learn.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence-from machine learning to generative AI-to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM's AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM's hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments-a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you'll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

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ABOUT IBM

IBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we're also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it's time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

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Client-provided location(s): Bangalore, India

Job ID: IBM-62885

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2025-10-07T18:47:10