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# Senior Software Engineer II - Confluent Platform Team

- **Company:** IBM
- **Location:** Armonk, NY, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Software Debugging, Distributed Systems, Open Source Technology, Ansible, Software Engineering, Multithreading, HybridCloud, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Apache Kafka, Confluent
- **Published:** September 27, 2026
- **Apply:** https://arc.dev/remote-jobs/j/redirect/pmw1rma3le

## About the Role

Master's Degree

Required Technical And Professional Expertise

 * 7+ years of hands-on software development experience with the ability to anticipate future technical needs for the product and craft plans to realize them. Taking ideas to production is something we look for.
 * Experience building and operating large-scale systems. Solid understanding of basic systems operations (disk, network, operating systems, etc). Experience running production services in the cloud.
 * Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development. Solid fundamentals in concurrent and multi-threading programming.
 * A self starter with the ability to work effectively in teams. Proactively identifying the symptoms of technical issues and reason about their causes is needed. This will be followed by fixing the root causes.
 * Timely shipping of deliverables; being able to trade-off short term technical decisions with the long term. Move fast, build in increments, and iterate. A sense of urgency, a mindset towards achieving results, and excellent prioritization skills.
 * Ability to influence the team, peers and upper management in technology decisions using effective communication and collaborative techniques
 * Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent experience. Understanding of various technologies, programming paradigms and frameworks is needed. Ability to be pragmatic and trade off their usage in production is essential.
 * Ability to take on intense customer productions issues on-call; debugging and mitigating them will be needed. This requires patient log and metrics analysis with solid reasoning to nail the issue.

Preferred Technical And Professional Experience

 * Experience in Open-source technologies
 * Experience in K8S, Ansible
 * Hands on experience in Hybrid Cloud environment
 * Hands on experience in Kafka



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