Software Engineer - DB Drivers

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 are seeking an experienced software engineer to develop highly visible and widely used tools and drivers in the DataStax Enterprise, Apache Cassandra and AstraDB ecosystem. In this role, you will join a small team of talented engineers developing products that help developers succeed in efficiently delivering business value in high-scale applications. You will take ownership of projects and must be willing to jump in to help customers.

What You Will Do

• Participate in and drive design within drivers, and across multiple products
• Implement cutting edge software solutions used in some of the largest scale applications on the planet
• Integration work involving Apache Cassandra™, DSE, AstraDB and other big data technologies
• Resolve challenging and diverse customer issues
• Foster the development community surrounding both proprietary, and open source products
• As a team, own both development and quality aspects for all products
• Research and implement improvements of the product as well as the development infrastructure
• Perform regular code reviews
• Maintain product documentation, white papers, and educational materials
• Write technical blog posts relating to our technologies
• Ongoing education around relevant technologies
  
  

Preferred Education

Master's Degree

Required Technical And Professional Expertise

• 4-6 years of experience in software engineering
• Deep Expertise in at least one of the high-level, multi-paradigm languages with a preference for Java, Go, and/or Python
• Experience with any distributed database (such as DataStax Enterprise, Apache Cassandra, Amazon DynamoDB, Azure CosmosDB, or other cloud native database products)
• Command of asynchronous and concurrent programming concepts
• Knowledge of high-performance, low-latency network programming
  
  

Preferred Technical And Professional Experience

• Effective technical experience with Git and GitHub
• Familiarity with GoCQL driver
• Experience with Jenkins or other CI systems
• Experience with cloud environments for build and deployment
• Proven ability to collaborate well in a globally distributed team environment
• Familiarity with creating and running containerized applications