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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.

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

We're looking for talented software engineers with a passion for learning and a systems-oriented view of software engineering to join our team working full-time on the core of our proprietary database based on Apache Cassandra. In this position you will be working in an important role on a complex infrastructure project used by many major organizations across the world, and collaborating with fellow engineers to improve the project. If you want to work on the most interesting problems of your career with the most collaborative and skilled peers you've ever worked with, this might be the role for you!

You'll take on a critical role on the core of our platform, working on enhancements and bug-fixes on our multi-model distributed database. Engineers on this team collaborate extensively with internal teams across to coordinate for releases, support existing customers through defect fixes and improvements, and review and advise on documentation for the project.

We’re looking for engineers that have a knack for untangling complex knots in code-bases and concurrent systems, with expertise in a C-lineage language (Java, Scala, Kotlin, C#, C++, Rust, etc). A gut passion for quality, elegance, performance and simplicity in solutions and code is critical in this role.  If you're comfortable in navigating multi-threaded, large distributed systems at scale this will be a great fit.

What you will do:

●     Author, debug, and improve code in the core of DataStax Enterprise Cassandra

●     Actively and self-driven collaborate with other engineers, field team and support members 

●     Work on maintenance, bug fixes, new feature development and improvements to the platform

●     Help prepare different teams for DSE releases (documentation, field, etc)

Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Master's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise

●     4-6 years of relevant experience

●     Expertise in at least one C-lineage language that supports OOP and FP (Java, Scala, Kotlin, C#, C++, Rust, etc)

●     Ability to work autonomously, self-manage your time, and to an extent self-direct when given high level strategic priorities

●     Ability to communicate clearly with peers and stakeholders verbally and via text (video calls, JIRA, Slack, email)

●     Demonstrated ability to focus on analytical tasks such as finding issues in a huge, distributed system

●     A desire to learn and grow daily, both technically and w/soft-skills interpersonally

●     An open-minded and collaborative attitude

Preferred technical and professional experience

●     Expertise in Java and Scala programming on the JVM

●     Experience with concurrency, memory management and I/O

●     Experience with Linux or other Unix-like systems

●     Experience with distributed databases, DataStax Enterprise or Apache Cassandra in particular

●     Experience with distributed computing platforms, Apache Spark in particular

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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