Software Engineer - DBaaS Serverless

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

Astra DB is a wildly successful cloud-native database as a service (DBaaS) powered by Apache Cassandra. We're looking for a software engineer to join our Astra Platform Infrastructure team. Our team owns the foundational infrastructure and services that enable customers to launch and manage their Astra DB instances.

What You Will Do

• Design, develop, and maintain a wide variety of software and cloud infrastructure for DataStax's Astra platform infrastructure, providing a "platform as a service" to internal customers, and providing a seamless database and streaming management experience to DataStax's cloud customers.
• Design, develop, and maintain software microservices, primarily for use to provision and manage cloud databases.
• Codify best practices by creating tools, APIs and SDKs, and utilities which enable and accelerate the development of our infrastructure and distributed services.
• Participate in on-call activities, acting as a secondary on-call support person for Production Engineering teams who require assistance with complex production issues.
• Is passionate about software quality, improving the design/development process, and building highly available systems
• Enjoys a highly diverse, collaborative, and cross-functional environment
• Stays abreast of modern technologies and practices especially in cloud native space
• Fosters long-term team success and contributes to a healthy work environment.
  
  

Preferred Education

Master's Degree

Required Technical And Professional Expertise

• 4-6 years of relevant experience
• Solid experience with / proficiency with public cloud infrastructure - at least one of Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, or Microsoft Azure.
• Expertise in Kubernetes, including configuration, usage as an application platform, maintenance, scaling, networking and troubleshooting.
• Solid understanding of Kubernetes and cloud network concepts such as ingress controllers, CNI, VPCs, NAT, and Private Link
• 4-6+ years of development experience with programming languages such as Go/Python/Java (preferably Go)
• Experience building highly scalable distributed systems on Kubernetes
• Expertise in infrastructure configuration management tools like Terraform and Crossplane..
• Experience with Kubernetes development using tools and libraries like operator-sdk, kubebuilder, controller-runtime, and client-go.