Software Engineer - Platform

IBM
IBM

Software Engineering

Posted on Nov 12, 2026
Introduction

At IBM Software, we transform client challenges into solutions. Building the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native products that shape the future of business and society. Our legacy of innovation creates endless opportunities for IBMers to learn, grow, and make an impact on a global scale. Working in Software means joining a team fueled by curiosity and collaboration. You'll work with diverse technologies, partners, and industries to design, develop, and deliver solutions that power digital transformation. With a culture that values innovation, growth, and continuous learning, IBM Software places you at the heart of IBM's product and technology landscape. Here, you'l have the tools and opportunities to advance your career while creating software that changes the world.

Your role and responsibilities

  • IBM’s Platform team spans the globe, just like the products we support. We build and power the technology that helps organizations manage, scale, and secure the modern enterprise. As a Software Engineer on Platform@IBM, you’ll play an important role in developing the next generation of platform technology that supports IBM’s products and customers worldwide.

  • Own platform architecture end-to-end: design, build, and operate the high-throughput, low-latency infrastructure that underpins IBM's commercial cloud offerings.

  • Lead systems development — architect and implement the orchestration layers, runtimes, and multi-agent commercial patterns that enable workloads to operate reliably at scale.

  • Drive technical strategy in the face of ambiguity; scope large, loosely defined problems, decompose them into tractable work, and align cross-functional teams around a clear engineering direction.

  • Set the bar for system reliability and scale — define SLOs, lead capacity planning exercises, and engineer for failure across distributed services handling millions of requests per day.

  • Mentor and level up the engineering organization; author RFCs and design documents that raise the technical floor for the entire team.

  • Collaborate with product, research, and adjacent platform teams to translate emerging AI capabilities — including retrieval-augmented generation, agent tool use, and model inference pipelines — into production-grade platform primitives.

  • Champion engineering excellence: lead code reviews, drive adoption of observability and site reliability practices, and hold a high bar for testability, operability, and security.

Required education
High School Diploma/GED
Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
  • Distributed systems & high-scale backend expertise: 4+ years designing distributed systems, including consensus, replication, partitioning, and latency/throughput/consistency trade-offs, plus production experience with systems handling tens of thousands to millions of RPS with 99.9%+ availability and strict latency requirements.
  • Backend development & cloud-native infrastructure: Proficiency in Go, Rust, Java, Python, and/or C++, with 5+ years building or operating production Kubernetes, OpenShift, or equivalent container orchestration and cloud-native infrastructure.
  • Agentic AI & emerging architectures: Familiarity with LLM-based reasoning loops, tool/function calling, agent-to-agent communication, and autonomous task execution frameworks, with the ability to apply these concepts in evolving technical environments.
  • Adaptability & commercialization: Demonstrated success in undefined, fast-moving environments where requirements evolve, along with experience supporting SaaS commercialization, including packaging, go-to-market flows, tenancy, and provisioning.
  • US Federal offerings: Experience supporting US Federal offerings and working closely with government partners in regulated environments.

Preferred technical and professional experience
  • Hands-on experience architecting multi-agent or agentic AI systems in production (orchestrators, planners, tool registries, memory/context stores) - 2 years
  • Background in developer platform or internal tooling at scale (CI/CD, observability, secrets management, API gateways, or platform control planes) - 5 years
  • Experience with event-driven architectures using Kafka, NATS, or similar high-throughput messaging systems – 5 years
  • Contributions to open-source platform or infrastructure projects.

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

Joining Anderon means helping shape a company at a formative stage. In a field where breakthrough ideas become dependable technologies, how we work matters. Our people stay curious, welcome feedback, and approach complex challenges with focus and personal responsibility. As part of the IBM group, eligible Anderon employees also have access to IBM benefits and programs. Explore the details below.

Anderon’s team provides world-class quality, trust, and technical excellence. You’ll reflect these values and contribute to the culture that supports our growth.

Few companies get to define an industry. At Anderon, you will. So come join us and pioneer quantum manufacturing.

ABOUT IBM

Anderon is America’s most advanced pure-play quantum foundry, accelerating the future of quantum computing. Based in Albany, New York, we are creating a US-based manufacturing capability for quantum wafers, laying the foundation for scaling breakthrough quantum technologies.

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.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program. Eligible employees may have access to:

- Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being

- Financial programs such as 401(k), cash balance pension plan, the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs

- Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law

- Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI-driven learning platform where IBMers can grow skills and obtain industry-recognized certifications to achieve their career goals

- Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences

We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role.

IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.

The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.

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