Backend Developer

IBM Cloud Computing Overview

• Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
• Software as a Service (SaaS)
• Platform as a Service (PaaS)

These are offered through public, private, and hybrid cloud delivery models, in addition to the components that make up those clouds. IBM Cloud ensures seamless integration into public and private cloud environments. The infrastructure is secure, scalable, and flexible, providing customized enterprise solutions that have made IBM Cloud the Hybrid Cloud Market leader. IBM Cloud is built on open technology with developer tools and supports solutions by industry. It runs services and workloads from Watson, Blockchain, Security, and IoT.

Your Role and Responsibilities

• Delivering infrastructure services with top-notch performance, security, reliability, and quality
• Creating reusable and parameterized configurations for spot instance profiles
• Leveraging load balancers or caching layers to reduce downtime during instance replacements
• Automating failover to on-demand instances when spot capacity is unavailable

Required Education

• Bachelor's Degree

Preferred Education

• Master's Degree

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• 7 to 10 years of industry experience with deep knowledge of Golang, C, C++ (Golang preferred)
• Programming experience in object-oriented design principles and patterns, with solid knowledge of REST and gRPC
• Experience with data modeling and API design
• Strong knowledge of data structures
• Hands-on experience implementing distributed applications in a container environment (Docker/Kubernetes)
• Experience configuring and administrating Linux (or UNIX) systems
• Strong experience in large distributed microservice architectures
• Experience in building tests for gRPC, RESTful APIs, and SOAP web services
• Experience with relational databases and SQL (Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL); non-relational experience with ETCD is a plus
• Familiarity with Cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP), CI/CD & DevOps
• Ability to script in Shell or Python when required
• Experience in large systems software design and development
• Demonstrated experience in development without much oversight
• Quick learning ability for new technologies and implementing prototypes in a timely fashion
• Problem-solving and analytical skills
• Expertise in performance optimization and scalability of complex systems
• Experience with asynchronous programming and concurrency models (Goroutine, channels are a plus)
• Proficiency in security best practices and secure coding principles
• Skilled in conducting peer code reviews and ensuring code quality
• Ability to manage technical debt and ensure maintainability of codebases

Preferred Technical and Professional Experience

• Familiarity with virtualization (KVM/QEMU/libvirt a plus)
• Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) preferred
• Understanding of security and compliance issues
• MS in Computer Science preferred; non-CS degrees considered if there is strong relevant experience