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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.

 

We are seeking a skilled back-end developer to join our IBM Software team. As part of our team, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining high-quality software products, working with a variety of technologies and programming languages.

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

Instana Sensors team is seeking to hire a Senior Java Software Engineer to join our team for developing infrastructure monitoring solutions.

At Instana, we process and analyze millions of spans, traces, metrics, and events per second to provide actionable APM intelligence to our rapidly expanding customer base. This constant stream of telemetry creates a number of challenges that must be met with operational agility, as well as strong architecture, design, and development.

As a member of our team, you’ll be mostly focused on the Instana Agent component which is responsible for automatic and zero-configuration service discovery, and data retrieval in order to monitor various technologies. The Instana Agent needs to work under various conditions and have a really low impact on the customer environment so your abilities to predict hot spots, writing optimized and concurrent code, and paying attention to details will be highly valuable. Working with Instana Agent will include a significant amount of researching and experimenting. Moreover, you will come across a wide range of technologies, like infrastructure platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes ...), as well as our rich Web UI. You should be open to learning new technologies and willing to get your hands dirty across the entire software stack.

Required education
Master's Degree
Preferred education
Master's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
  • Overall 14+years of experience.
  • Ability to work in a team and have a strong willingness to work as a team player and perfect self-organization skills.

  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

  • Ability to understand the problem and formally specify it, so such problem specification could be transformed to program code.

  • Ability to learn and adapt to new technologies really fast.

  • Strong background in software architecture design principles and their production use cases.

  • Excellent Java skills and experience in writing optimized code.

  • Strong understanding of Java dependency management and build tools such as Maven.

  • Excellent code writing discipline and eye for code efficiency.

  • Experience with using different container runtimes and their APIs (such as Docker, Containerd, CRI-O, and Podman) and orchestration frameworks (Kubernetes).

  • Strong background of dealing with cloud services (AWS, Azure, GCP).

  • Hands-on experience with OSGI framework concepts and use cases.

  • Ability to manage multiple projects and work in a cross-functional team.

  • Strong background in understanding Linux OS concepts and toolset

  • Fluent in written and spoken English

Preferred technical and professional experience

  • Hands-on experience with distributed tracing and application performance monitoring.

  • Experience with Project Reactor, Kafka, and Elasticsearch is a plus.

  • Shell scripting experience.

  • Basic TypeScript skills.

  • Hands-on experience with OSGI framework concepts and use cases.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence—from machine learning to generative AI—to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM’s AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM’s hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments—a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

 

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

 

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

 

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business. 

 

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

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