Senior Software Engineer II

• Introduction
• At IBM Software, we transform client challenges into solutions.

Building the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native products that shape the future of business and society. Our legacy of innovation creates endless opportunities for IBMers to learn, grow, and make an impact on a global scale. Working in Software means joining a team fueled by curiosity and collaboration. You'll work with diverse technologies, partners, and industries to design, develop, and deliver solutions that power digital transformation. With a culture that values innovation, growth, and continuous learning, IBM Software places you at the heart of IBM's product and technology landscape. Here, you'll have the tools and opportunities to advance your career while creating software that changes the world.

• Your role and responsibilities
• To unlock Confluent's full potential, we're growing our Continuous Delivery tooling team—an essential group responsible for powering the automation behind Confluent Cloud service delivery.

This is a high-impact, strategic investment area that directly improves R D engineering productivity, strengthens compliance, and accelerates our operational maturity at scale.

We're looking for software engineers who are excited about building mission-critical internal platforms and who care deeply about the developer experience. If you're passionate about engineering productivity, system reliability, and high-quality delivery, this is an opportunity to make a meaningful, company-wide impact.

What You'll Do

• Design and build scalable Golang-based tooling that enables Confluent Cloud teams to deliver software safely, securely, and efficiently
• Own and drive end-to-end execution of complex projects in production environments, with a strong focus on quality and reliability
• Apply industry best practices and modern design patterns to create innovative, best-in-class solutions
• Partner closely with internal stakeholders, bringing a customer-first mindset to support a wide range of use cases and teams
• Required technical and professional expertise
• 3+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure or cloud networking
• Strong foundation in systems design, development, and low-level concepts (OS, networking, storage)
• Experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems
• Proficiency in Go, C++, Python, or other statically typed languages
• Hands-on experience with public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and container orchestration (Kubernetes)
• Preferred technical and professional experience
• Experience working on developer productivity tooling
• Experience with EKS, GKE or AKS specific Kubernetes distributionsIBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and 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, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.