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Staff Software Development Engineer

AT IBM
IBM

Staff Software Development Engineer

Dublin, Ireland

Introduction
Are you a software engineer with a passion for building scalable micro-services that handle massive amounts of data and form the backbone of customer-facing managed services?
We are a growing SaaS-centered company that helps our enterprise customers plan, analyze, and optimize their IT spending across traditional and cloud infrastructure.

We are looking for a Senior 5 years plus experience Software Engineer who is passionate about building large scale services optimized for performance, efficiency, and handling lots of data. You will be responsible for designing new services, revamping existing ones, and guiding the team's overall system design and architecture. Some of the technologies you'll be using include AWS, GCP, Azure, and their hosted services like RDS, SQS, and Lambda; NoSQL/distributed such as DynamoDB and Redis; and established Java/Golang codebases.

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Your Role and Responsibilities

-Build cloud-natives services that solve new and existing business challenges and customer needs
-Owning and driving the team's technical vision and system architecture.
-Building distributed systems in Java to process petabytes of data,
-Own end-to-end features from concept to design to production and partner with product managers and other engineers to deliver high-quality solutions that horizontally scale.
-Dive into complex architectures and research and identify new technologies to solve tough problems.
-Mentor and coach junior engineers.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise
• Extensive professional knowledge, experience, and understanding of at least one modern programming language, such Java, Scala and Go.
• Professional experience in a SaaS company.
• 8+ years of professional software development experience.
• 5+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.
• Bachelor's Degree in computer science, a related field, or relevant work experience.
• Computer Science fundamentals in data structures, algorithm design and problem solving.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

  • • Experience in modern software concepts such as Infrastructure as Code (e.g., terraform)
  • Experienced with modern API design and implementations, preferably in Java or Golang.
  • Experienced in Cloud infrastructure's cost management or FinOps.
  • • Experience with Linux-based integrated development environments, or equivalent (e.g., IntelliJ IDEA).
    • Experience using containerization technologies like Docker and container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes.
    • Experience using monitoring tools like Splunk, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana
    • Exceptional customer focus, ownership, and drive.
    • Demonstrated capability to provide depth and breadth technical leadership.
    • Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.

Client-provided location(s): Coolmine, Mulhuddart, Co. Dublin, Ireland
Job ID: IBM-21003799
Employment Type: Full Time

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