Confluent - Senior Software Engineer - (Full-Stack, UX-Focused)

IBM
IBM

Software Engineering, Product, Design

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

We’re seeking a Senior Software Engineer I with a passion for observability, and a desire to define their career by contributing to our mission critical observability platform that operates at global scale; across the big three cloud providers, a hundred regions, thousands of clusters and tens of thousands of nodes. At this scale, every contribution you make will have an enormous impact on how we develop and operate our global data streaming platform. This role will let you flex a wide range of skills; where UX design and mega scale system design are equally important, where improving developer velocity and reliability can be equally satisfying.

What You Will Do:

Architect, design, build and operate end-to-end solutions for collecting, shipping, storing and querying OpenTelemetry signals from infrastructure, application containers, and k8s clusters, with a heavy focus on self-service, multitenancy, reliability and velocity.

Operate global and regional storage and query backends for metrics, traces, and logs Define and implement the building blocks for querying, visualizing and acting on 300M+ active time series using Grafana, Prometheus, AlertManager, and PagerDuty

Evaluate and implement new capabilities for logging, trace analytics and application profiling

Work directly with product engineering teams, on calls, and incident commanders to evangelize and deliver enhancements to our observability platform

Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Master's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
  • 4+ years building distributed systems in Java, Golang or Python and running in k8s
  • Experience on SRE, DevOps, observability, or similar platform engineering team delivering capabilities to multiple product engineering team
  • Experience in the use of Prometheus, AlertManager, Grafana, and OpenSearch
  • Experience with operating in-house observability infrastructure and being on-call for it
  • BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience

What Gives You An Edge:

  • Experience operating highly scalable observability backends (VictoriaMetrics, OpenSearch, ClickHouse, etc)
  • Experience with federated observability solutions that span multiple clouds and regions
  • You’ve built and operated k8s clusters on an infrastructure or SRE team in AWS, GCP, and Azure
  • You’ve taken a platform approach to problem solving by building your own OTel Collector components, k8s custom resources and k8s operators
Preferred technical and professional experience

Same as above.

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.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

Must have the ability to work in Canada without sponsorship.

This role will involve working with technology that is covered by Export Regulations sanctions. If you are a Foreign National from any of the following US sanctioned countries (Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and the Crimea, Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhia regions of Ukraine) on a work permit, you are not eligible for employment in this position.

The salary range for the position is based on a full-time schedule. Your ultimate salary within this range may vary depending on your job-related skills and experience for this position.

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