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Introduction

 

Apptio, an IBM Company, is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to join our growing team building innovative, AI-driven solutions across the FinOps and Technology Business Management (TBM) product suite. In this role, you will work closely with data scientists to design, develop, and scale the engineering infrastructure required to bring machine learning and generative AI capabilities into production across our SaaS platforms.

You will play a key role in shaping the future of intelligent product features—enabling smarter automation, deeper analytics, and better business outcomes for our enterprise customers.

Your role and responsibilities

 

  • Collaborate with data scientists to productionize AI/ML models, including orchestration, scaling, monitoring, and API integration
  • Design and build high-quality, maintainable software systems that deliver AI/ML-powered features within Apptio’s product suite
  • Develop secure and scalable microservices, data pipelines, and back-end components in a cloud-native environment
  • Work closely with product managers and UX designers to translate business needs into technical solutions
  • Contribute to architectural decisions and code reviews while mentoring junior engineers
  • Drive performance, scalability, and reliability best practices across AI-integrated features
  • Stay up-to-date with emerging trends in software engineering, cloud technologies, and MLOps
Required education
None
Preferred education
None
Required technical and professional expertise

 

  • Demonstrated experience in software development, ideally with experience delivering SaaS or data-driven products
  • Proficiency in one or more modern languages such as Java, Python, Go, or TypeScript
  • Experience building and deploying RESTful APIs, working with containerized environments (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Solid understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and CI/CD pipelines
  • Demonstrated experience collaborating with data science or ML teams to operationalize models
  • Strong knowledge of distributed systems, performance optimization, and fault-tolerant design
  • Excellent communication skills and a collaborative, team-first mindset
Preferred technical and professional experience

 

  • Experience with MLOps tools and practices (e.g., MLflow, SageMaker, Airflow, KubeFlow)
  • Familiarity with FinOps, IT financial management, or Apptio products (ApptioOne, Cloudability, Targetprocess)
  • Exposure to generative AI or LLM-based solutions
  • Knowledge of observability practices and tools for AI/ML-powered services

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.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.


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