IBM

Software Engineer - Confluent Secure Compute

IBM$80K — $95K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 1+ years in backend system design and support
  • Experience with production-grade online components
  • Proficient in Python and its ecosystem
  • Strong skills in major programming languages (Java, Go, C/C++, Rust)
  • Familiar with Kubernetes and cloud-native tools
  • Advanced degree in computer science or equivalent experience

Responsibilities

  • Build high-performance backend services and features
  • Troubleshoot complex technical issues in microservices and virtualization
  • Ensure services meet availability and performance SLA
  • Drive process and operational improvements
  • Collaborate on system architecture and design

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work with cutting-edge cloud technologies
  • Impactful role in a high-growth product portfolio
  • Work in a secure environment focused on mission-critical applications
  • Exposure to diverse teams and cross-functional projects
Full Job Description
Introduction

Your role and responsibilities

About the Role:

The Secure Compute team builds and operates the foundational infrastructure layer that powers Confluent Cloud. Our mission is to enable the safe execution of code and data processing in multi-tenant environments across AWS, Azure, and GCP at scale. We provide the essential building blocks-including isolation, identity, and networking-that empower both our customers and internal product teams to innovate without compromising security.

As Confluent's product portfolio expands, our team sits at the center of the company's growth. We own a polyglot, container-based runtime that operates across thousands of clusters globally, solving some of the most complex challenges in distributed systems and cloud-native architecture. By balancing world-class security with operational cost-efficiency, we ensure that Confluent Cloud remains the trusted platform for mission-critical workloads in even the most highly regulated industries.

What You Will Do:
  • Build mission-critical backend services and features that deliver value to our customers. You will play a crucial role in architecting, designing, developing and operationalizing high performance, scalable, reliable and resilient services
  • Troubleshoot and debug technical issues inside a deep and complex technical stack that includes microservices, containers, and virtualization
  • Ensure operational readiness of the services and meet the availability and performance SLA commitments to our customers
  • A strategic engineer who constantly thinks of process and operational improvements


Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

  • 1+ years industry experience designing, building, and supporting backend systems in production with a solid grasp on good software engineering practices such as code reviews, deep focus on quality, and documentation
  • Direct experience building systems with online components that serve user request.
  • Proficiency in Python runtime environments (virtual environments, package management, and interpreter configurations).
  • Strong programming and algorithmic skills. Proficiency in a major programming language, e.g. Java, Go, C / C++, Rust, Python, etc.
  • Experience with Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies.
  • Experience in other Language Runtimes / VMs (JVM/WASM, etc.) a big plus.
  • BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience


OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

Must have the ability to work in Canada without sponsorship.

This role will involve working with technology that is covered by Export Regulations sanctions. If you are a Foreign National from any of the following US sanctioned countries (Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and the Crimea, Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhia regions of Ukraine) on a work permit, you are not eligible for employment in this position.

About IBM

Sequent Computer Systems designs and manufactures multiprocessing computer systems based on Cache Coherent Non-Uniform Memory Access architecture, which are used primarily as application and database servers for commercial applications. Through a partnership with Oracle Corporation, Sequent became a dominant high-end UNIX platform in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Later it introduced a next-generation high-end platform for UNIX and Windows NT based on non-uniform memory access architecture, NUMA-Q. Sequent Computer Systems, Inc. was incorporated in 1983 and is based in Beaverton, Oregon. In July 1999 Sequent Computer Systems, Inc. was acquired by International Business Machines Corp.

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