Introduction
A career in IBM Software means you'll be part of a team that transforms our customer's 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.
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
We're looking for talented software engineers with a passion for a systems-oriented view of software engineering. You'll be challenged with untangling complex knots in code-bases and concurrent systems, with expertise in Java or other C-lineage languages (Scala, Kotlin, C#, C++, Rust, etc). A gut passion for quality, elegance, performance and simplicity in solutions and code is critical in this role. If you're comfortable in navigating multi-threaded, large distributed systems at scale this will be a great fit. This role is part of the engineering teams that develop our database products, Astra (our multi-cloud database-as-a-service), and DSE/HCD which are all based on Apache Cassandra. Our products are used by many major organizations across the world!
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What you will do:
- Develop new features, enhancements, and bug-fixes on our highly scalable, multi-tenant, database products.
- Collaborate extensively with internal teams across DataStax to coordinate releases, support existing customers through defect fixes and improvements, and review/advise on documentation for the project.
- Potentially contribute to Cassandra NoSQL database management system, which handles large sets of data.
- Model solid engineering practices around architectural design, testability, scalability and maintainability.
- Work full-time, discussing things with peers over Slack, email, or video chat
Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Master's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
- Minimum of 4-6 years of relevant industry experience in Software Engineering
- Substantial experience programming distributed and high throughput applications
- A deep knowledge of Java and JVM ecosystem of open source libraries and projects
- Deep understanding of algorithms, data structures and softwaredesign
- Strong coding skills with Java, Python, C/C++
- Comfortable handing problems related to concurrency and distributed computing
- Familiarity with bug tracking tools, version control tools, build automation tools and test automation tools.
- Experience in SDLC having contributed at each step: Plan, Track, Code, Build, Test, Deploy and Monitor.
- Experience with concurrency, memory management and I/O
- Experience with Linux or other Unix-like systems
- An open-minded and collaborative attitude
Preferred technical and professional experience
- Experience with database internals (preferably NoSQL) preferred
- Experience with at least one major public cloud providers preferred
- Experience with Kubernetes preferred
- Experience with Apache Cassandra is a plus.
- Experience with cloud-scale Saas applications is a plus
- Prior experience contributing to open source projects is a plus
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.
Are you ready to be an IBMer?
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 50 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 qualifiedapplicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race,color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexualorientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability,neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is alsocommitted to compliance with all fair employment practices regardingcitizenship and immigration status.
OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS
IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.