Senior Software Engineer - Debezium

Introduction

Your role and responsibilities

The IBM Software Team is looking for a Software Engineer to work on Debezium, an open-source project building a distributed platform for capturing changes from databases with very low latency.

Debezium is written in Java and relies heavily on DBMS-specific features to create connectors that capture changes and publish them as events to Kafka in the same order they occur in the databases. This design ensures that no changes are missed, even when things go wrong.

As a Software Engineer, you will gain experience with distributed systems, stream processing, multiple databases, and the monitoring and management of distributed systems, all while working in an open-source environment. You will also participate in challenging discussions to help define and prioritize the Debezium roadmap. Ultimately, you'll play a crucial role in the open-source community surrounding Debezium.
Primary Job Responsibilities

• Participate in the design, development, and testing of various Debezium features, including adding new and enhancing existing DBMS-specific connectors and creating tooling for management and monitoring
• Diagnose, fix, and patch customer-related issues
• Carry out performance testing, tuning, and profiling
• Write and maintain unit and integration tests
• Build demos and proofs of concepts; present Debezium in blog posts and conference talks
• Participate in project forums, community chat, and bug tracking and task management systems to interact with user and developer communities
• Collaborate with related teams, such as documentation and support.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• Proficient in Java, with extensive development experience.
• Familiarity with one or more databases supported by Debezium (MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle, Db2 or Cassandra)
• Familiarity with Java concurrency and parallel programming principles
• Familiarity with standard development tools like git, Maven, Jenkins
• Experience with containers

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Experience with Kubernetes or Red Hat OpenShift is a plus
• Knowledge of Kafka and stream processing is a plus
• Experience with Quarkus or the Quarkus ecosystem is a plus
• Knowledge of event-driven architecture and design is a plus
• Knowledge of a scripting language like Python or Groovy is a plus
• Experience working in a distributed team is a plus
• Open-source software development experience is a plus

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OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

For additional information about location requirements, please discuss with the recruiter following submission of your application.

Client-provided location(s): Dublin, Ireland

Job ID: IBM-60603

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2025-10-07T18:47:11