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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 The Confluent Platform Management and Control Center team builds the experiences and services that help customers operate Kafka and Confluent Platform reliably across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will work across Unified Stream Manager (USM) and Confluent Control Center (C3) to make platform management, observability simpler and more dependable for enterprise customers. USM is the strategic, hybrid-first control plane for managing and monitoring Confluent Platform across environments. C3 remains an important local control plane for customers operating in non-hybrid, sovereign, regulated, or air-gapped environments. You will own complex engineering problems from design through production, partnering with engineers, product managers, designers, and teams across Confluent. Your work will help customers manage clusters, connectors, topics, and streaming workloads with greater visibility, confidence, and operational control. This role is a strong fit for an engineer who enjoys working across distributed systems and product surfaces, solving ambiguous problems, and building software that is reliable under real-world production conditions. 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