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Building the world’s leading AI-powered, cloud-native products that shape the future of business and society. Our legacy of innovation creates endless opportunities for IBMers to learn, grow, and make an impact on a global scale. Working in Software means joining a team fueled by curiosity and collaboration. You’ll work with diverse technologies, partners, and industries to design, develop, and deliver solutions that power digital transformation. With a culture that values innovation, growth, and continuous learning, IBM Software places you at the heart of IBM’s product and technology landscape. Here, you’ll have the tools and opportunities to advance your career while creating software that changes the world. About the Role We are looking for an engineer who wants to go deep on a real, widely deployed platform. You will join one of the CP sub-teams and take ownership of well-scoped features within that area - designing them, building them, testing them, and supporting them once they reach customers. You will work alongside experienced engineers who will help you build depth in your subdomain, and you will be expected to become increasingly self-sufficient over time: picking up problems, reasoning through them, and delivering high-quality solutions with limited hand-holding. This is a hands-on engineering role with a clear path toward broader technical ownership. What You Will Do\nDesign, build, and operate features and tooling within your CP sub-team’s area (release engineering, readiness, deploy, security, or monitoring and management).\nOwn medium-sized features end to end: design, implementation, testing, rollout, and follow-through - delivering each with high quality.\nWrite clean, well-tested code with sound engineering practices around testing, logging, and error handling.\nContribute meaningfully to design discussions and reviews for your area, and write one-pagers or design notes for the work you own.\nReview peers’ pull requests and provide constructive, specific feedback that improves the team’s quality bar.\nParticipate in CP on-call rotations, diagnosing and resolving customer-impacting issues through careful log and metrics analysis.\nImprove operational stability by automating repetitive work, reducing on-call toil, and writing and maintaining runbooks.\nCollaborate with engineers on adjacent teams to unblock yourself and land work that spans more than one component.\nHelp teammates with specific technical problems and support new engineers as they ramp up. Confluent Platform Confluent Platform’s mission is to deliver a best-in-class, full-scale data streaming platform for any BYOI (Bring Your Own Infra) setup - from a developer’s laptop to private cloud infrastructure. Confluent is the leader in data-in-motion, and CP brings that experience to private cloud and the open-source community. CP generates roughly 50% of Confluent’s revenue. The Team The CP team is based out of India (established 2023) and is made up of the following sub-teams:\nBuild & Release - Release engineering across 130+ repositories, delivering native RPM installs, Java archives, and optimized Docker images.\nCP Readiness - The “Customer Zero” quality gate; builds the tooling, DSLs, and frameworks used across Confluent to validate implementations before they reach customer production.\nCP Deploy - Last-mile deployment automation (Ansible, Kubernetes/CFK) enabling zero-downtime installs and upgrades.\nCP Security - AuthN/AuthZ, OAuth, mTLS and compliance protocols for regulated customers in Finserv, Telecom, Insurance, and Banking.\nCP Monitoring & Management - fleet health, RBAC, and Confluent Control Center across customers’ multi-geography cluster deployments.\nGateway - Self managed high performance Kafka proxy products to help migrate customers to CP or CC, provide governance, DR and external sharing capabilities. What We’re Looking For\n3+ years of hands-on software development experience building and supporting production systems.\nStrong programming and problem-solving fundamentals in at least one major language (Java, Go, C/C++, Python, or similar), and the ability to pick up new ones.\nWorking understanding of distributed systems and systems fundamentals (disk, network, operating systems); exposure to concurrent or multi-threaded programming.\nExperience deploying and operating services in the cloud, including containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).\nA focus on quality and reliability - testing strategies, observability, and learning from incidents.\nSelf-motivated and comfortable owning well-defined problems from start to finish, asking for help when it speeds things up.\nClear communicator who can explain technical decisions to teammates and stakeholders.\nDegree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.\nWilling to take customer-facing on-call shifts and debug production issues. What’s a Deal-Breaker for Us\nNeeding every step spelled out; we expect you to dig into a problem before escalating it.\nTreating on-call, testing, and operational work as someone else’s job. 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