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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

About the team

The Foundations Engineering team is composed of Site Reliability Engineers and Software Engineers working on the[1] [2] HCP Terraform hosted service. Our team ensures that the platform’s underlying infrastructure, data stores, and core foundational services are reliable, performant, and robust.

What you’ll do (responsibilities)

We’re looking for a Sr. Software Engineer to join our team. The Engineers on our team own the core foundational services that power the entire HCP Terraform hosted service. These mission-critical services and data stores compose the Terraform plan and apply pipeline, and are used by every Terraform run which hits HCP Terraform.

An ideal candidate will have experience building distributed systems at scale, a principled approach to service security, and an interest in working closely with both infrastructure and feature teams to solve complex problems that span several services.

If you fit this profile, we’d love to meet you! We have a large footprint and a quickly-growing user base, with lots of interesting problems and plenty of opportunities for growth and development.

References

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1. https://www.hashicorp.com/resources/what-is-terraform-cloud/

2. https://www.hashicorp.com/resources/what-is-terraform-cloud/

Required technical and professional expertise

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Develop and maintain the backend services on which HCP Terraform relies

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Continuously improve the product by writing code in systems written in Ruby on Rails and Golang

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Investigate problems, performance bottlenecks, and orchestration issues which span multiple services

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Enable your teammates through technical mentorship, code reviews, and pairing

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Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation that supports our production services

Preferred technical and professional experience

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Have 5+ years of production experience working on any of the following:

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Backend applications (e.g., Ruby on Rails)

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Databases (e.g., Postgres, Redis)

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Services written in Go

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Strive for quality through maintainable code and comprehensive testing from development to deployment

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Experience building and scaling distributed, highly available systems

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Communicate clearly while remaining empathetic and kind

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Have an eagerness to learn through humility and reflection

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Have experience debugging performance bottlenecks for live services and systems

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Are familiar with best practices for application and infrastructure security

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.