Cloud Platform Software Engineer

**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**
Astra DB is a wildly successful cloud-native database as a service (DBaaS) powered by Apache Cassandra.

We're looking for a software engineer to join our Astra Platform Infrastructure team.

Our team owns the foundational infrastructure and services that enable customers to launch and manage their Astra DB instances.
**Required technical and professional expertise**
· Demonstrated professional development experience with Golang

· Solid experience with / proficiency with public cloud infrastructure -- at least one of Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, or Microsoft Azure.

· Experience with Kubernetes, including configuration, usage as an application platform, maintenance, scaling, networking and troubleshooting.

· Solid understanding of Kubernetes and cloud network concepts such as ingress controllers, CNI, VPCs, NAT, and Private Link
**Preferred technical and professional experience**
· Experience with Kubernetes development using tools and libraries like operator-sdk, kubebuilder, controller-runtime, and client-go.

· Experience building highly scalable distributed systems on Kubernetes

· Experience with infrastructure configuration management tools like Terraform and Crossplane.
IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and 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, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics.

IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.