The Staff Software Engineer role at IBM focuses on developing control plane services for the Flink product, which is essential for managing Flink job lifecycles. The team is dedicated to innovation and excellence, contributing to Confluent's Data in Motion initiative. Engineers will work with advanced database storage to ensure high reliability and efficiency in stream processing. This position also involves mentoring junior developers and maintaining high standards of code quality and documentation.

• 10+ years of relevant software development experience.
• Deep knowledge of distributed systems orchestration, such as Kubernetes.
• Experience building high-scale control planes or cloud-native infrastructure.
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to translate complex requirements into effective solutions.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.

• Develop control plane services that orchestrate Flink job lifecycles.
• Build Kubernetes operators and orchestrators for serverless resource management.
• Design APIs for job management, multi-tenancy, and isolation.
• Ensure code quality, test coverage, documentation, and maintainability of components.
• Mentor less experienced engineers in control plane architecture and serverless Apache Flink.

• IBM offers competitive compensation, healthcare coverage, retirement programs, paid parental leave, tuition assistance, wellness programs, flexible work options, and extensive learning and certification resources.