Software Engineer - Kubernetes Application Developer

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 Managed Clusters is a managed database service . This offering delivers dedicated DataStax Enterprise (DSE) clusters in the cloud, tailored for customers needing closer alignment to traditional, self-managed environments, and supports advanced workloads and specialized deployment requirements.

What You Will Do

• Design, develop, and maintain the AMC service running on top of Kubernetes.
• Help Production Engineering teams set up, maintain and troubleshoot AMC.
• Be passionate about software quality, improving the design/development process, and building highly available systems
• Being curious and analytical, wanting to learn, understand and improve complex systems with many moving parts
• Be dedicated to providing the best possible customer experience
• Enjoy a highly diverse, distributed, collaborative, and cross-functional environment
• Stays abreast of modern technologies and practices
• Fosters long-term team success and contributes to a healthy work environment
  
  

Preferred Education

Master's Degree

Required Technical And Professional Expertise

• 7- 9 years of relevant work experience.
• Expertise in Kubernetes, including configuration, usage as an application platform, maintenance, scaling, and troubleshooting.
• 3+ years experience with writing software in Golang, Python and Java
  
  

Preferred Technical And Professional Experience

• Experience with Terraform.
• Experience with Apache Cassandra and/or DSE as a developer or as an administrator
• Experience building highly scalable distributed systems on Kubernetes
• Experience with ArgoCD (or any equivalent GitOps delivery tool)