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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

IBM’s Ceph engineering organization is looking for a Software Engineer to join the File protocols Team. In this role you will collaborate with our worldwide Ceph engineering team to develop and enhance distributed/networked file storage and in particular modern NFS (NFSv4.1/2, pNFS) implementation projects. You will design and implement new capabilities and features to enable new use cases while improving scalability, performance and efficiency. You will participate in a vibrant and active open source community to deliver enterprise-quality software.

The IBM Ceph storage object team develops RGW (“Rados Gateway”)  an industry-leading open-source implementation of Amazon S3- and Swift-compatible object storage services, plus accelerations and extensions to support Red Hat offerings for big data/analytics and AI/ML, among other applications.  The team also co-develops and supports enhancements for NFS-Ganesha, a flexible user-space NFSv4 implementation, in support of open source communities and storage team

 


Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise

 

* 5+ years of professional experience in systems development and software engineering

Proficient in Python with experience developing and maintaining libraries.

* Experience working with C++ codebases, or other systems languages and demonstrated ability
* Good debugging skills both live system and offline core files
* Able to troubleshoot issues in production and assist Customer facing team for root cause analysis
* Excellent English written and verbal communication skills, for our worldwide team
* Working experience with Open source projects
* Experience in git and github
* Demonstrated ability to understand large codebases and develop significant new features and architectural changes

* Modern systems development, debugging, and system construction.
* Distributed systems, software-defined storage, and networked file access protocols expertise.
* Proficiency in C and C++ with knowledge of C11, C++20 coroutines.
* Familiarity with storage architectures, object storage, and open-source storage solutions.
* Experience in open-source community collaboration and contribution.
* Strong networking protocol knowledge, particularly in NFS and user-space NFSv4 implementations.
* Debugging complex distributed systems and performance optimization skills.
* Proficiency in advanced native-code tools and techniques for system development.
* Familiarity with cloud storage technologies, object storage interfaces (e.g., S3, Swift), and integration of storage services with big data/analytics and AI/ML platforms.

Preferred technical and professional experience
* Experience with open-source storage projects in the Ceph ecosystem.
* Knowledge of modern storage technologies, cloud-native storage, and containerization.
* Performance profiling, analysis, and optimization of distributed systems.
* Understanding of file system internals, security practices, and DevOps methodologies.
* Familiarity with storage virtualization, machine learning, and AI technologies.
* Certifications in storage, distributed systems, or cloud platforms are a plus.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Systems helps IT leaders think differently about their infrastructure. IBM servers and storage are no longer inanimate - they can understand, reason, and learn so our clients can innovate while avoiding IT issues. Our systems power the world’s most important industries and our clients are the architects of the future. Join us to help build our leading-edge technology portfolio  designed for cognitive business and optimized for cloud computing.

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.

 

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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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