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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 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

You will be a member of the open source Infinispan project which is a distributed in-memory key/value data store with optional schema. The Infinispan project is used as the basis for products from Red Hat (Data Grid) and IBM. Our customers use the product to increase the performance and scalability of their applications. You will make sure our solutions fulfill the highest possible enterprise quality, performance, usability, and supportability criteria.  

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will contribute to the development of Infinispan by maintaining and enhancing existing code and developing new features in the open source project. Collaboration is key, and you will actively engage with user and developer communities through project forums, community chat, and issue tracking for bug reporting and task management. Your responsibilities will also include assisting the support team in diagnosing and resolving complex customer issues. Success in this role requires creative problem-solving, adaptability to rapid changes, and a continuous eagerness to learn.

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

  • Strong Java Development Skills:

Must be highly proficient in Java, with at least 5+ years of professional development experience.

  • Experience with distributed systems:

Highly experienced in developing and maintaining large scale distributed systems in Java. Strong background in distributed systems, especially networking, clustering, and concurrency.

  • Ability to work in a dynamic environment with a geographically distributed team:

Willingness to work with a highly distributed development team, using open source development methodologies and tools.

  • Self-Starter Mindest: 

A self-starter with a proactive mindset, able to initiate and drive projects independently.

Self-motivated and able to work in an independent and autonomous fashion, with minimal guidance.

  • Excellent Problem-Solving Skills:

Demonstrated excellence in problem-solving, with the ability to tackle complex issues and find effective solutions.

Preferred technical and professional experience

  • Familiarity with technologies used by Infinispan:

Infinispan uses: 

  • Netty

  • Quarkus

  • Hibernate Search which is based on Lucene and ElasticSearch

  • Reactive streams 

  • Keycloak and Wildfly use Infinispan internally

 

  • Experience with public speaking or working in open source communities:

Promoting the project and attracting new users is another aspect of the position

  • Familiarity with container technologies:

Knowledge of Docker, podman, kubernetes, OpenShift, and operators

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 500 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, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

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