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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

Join our team building DSE/HCD, a distributed database based on Apache Cassandra that powers critical infrastructure for organizations you interact with daily—from platforms streaming your favorite shows to networks tracking your packages and processing your payments.

As a DSE/HCD database engineer, you'll dive deep into our multi-model distributed database, applying analytical and critical thinking skills to develop enhancements, fix intricate bugs, and collaborate with talented engineers across the organization. This is your opportunity to work on genuinely challenging technical problems with a team that values craftsmanship, performance, and elegant solutions.

Why This Role?

You'll work on the internals of a database used by organizations worldwide, tackling problems that will stretch your skills and deepen your expertise in distributed systems. You'll collaborate with internationally distributed engineers who care deeply about quality and craft. If you have strong analytical skills and get energized by untangling complex technical challenges, we'd love to hear from you.

What You'll do

  • Build and improve the core of DSE/HCD (DataStax Enterprise / Hyper-Converged Database), working on everything from customer feature requests to complex system issues
  • Own the full development lifecycle: coding, testing, automation, and release of our database product
  • Debug complex issues in large-scale distributed systems, untangling thorny problems in concurrent code
  • Contribute to technical documentation that helps teams successfully use our product
Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Master's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise

• Demonstrated professional experience with Java+Python development on Linux-based systems

• Genuine curiosity and passion for continuous learning

• Ownership mindset across the entire software development process

• Ability to work autonomously while collaborating effectively with distributed teams

• Clear communication skills across video, chat, and technical documentation

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Strong analytical skills with a knack for debugging complex distributed systems

• Experience with concurrency, memory management, and performance optimization

• Hands-on experience with Apache Cassandra or other distributed databases

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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