Streaming 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

Databases and event streams are complementary infrastructure in modern software architecture. You will enhance Pulsar to support event streaming applications that use DataStaxs Astra cloud service which provides the Cassandra database and the Pulsar streaming engine. You will be highly involved in the design, implementation, and operation of solutions to solve problems for the world’s leading enterprises as we scale up and deliver an amazing developer experience.

What You Will Do

• Author, debug, and improve code in the core of Apache Pulsar
• Contribute to open-source and proprietary projects that interface with Pulsar
• Aid production support teams debugging and root causing user-facing issues
• Work in a fast-moving environment to rapidly prototype, iterate and evolve solutions for real-world developer need
• Perform regular code reviews among peers
  
  

• 7-9 years of relevant experience
• Systems level proficiency in Java or another popular language.
• Experience working on large scale distributed systems
• Experience with multi-threaded programming and concurrency primitives.
• Knowledge of distributed data stores (NoSQL systems) to achieve massive scalability and availability of the data made available by your data pipelines.
• Knowledge of highly scalable streaming services that achieve massive scalability and availability
• Familiarity with bug tracking tools, version control tools, build automation tools and test automation tools.
• Experience in SDLC having contributed at each step: Plan, Track, Code, Build, Test, Deploy and Monitor.
  
  

• Experience with Apache Pulsar or Kafka is a plus.
• Experience with Apache Cassandra is a plus.