Sr. Software Engineer – GoLang -OpenShift Virtualization

Introduction

We, at the IBM Chief Information Office (CIO) are a dynamic group of business, strategy and technology professionals, who provide top-of-the-line industry consulting, application and business process delivery, and follow agile values and principles. CIO is at the forefront of the digital reinvention of key applications used across IBM globally, providing value-led and asset-powered end-to-end solutions.

Team is a cross-functional organization that provides enterprise class IT applications and infrastructure services to IBM Business Units and to IBMers worldwide. Our mission is to provide a productive environment for everyone at IBM. We do this by leading Science (data-driven decisions), Ownership (autonomous, empowered teams), Speed (rapid iteration), and Openness (transparent communication, avoiding defensiveness), Engineering the systems that own the business, and Innovating to transform the business. We continually Deepen our Agile practices while ensuring we Secure the Enterprise IT Infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities

Your role and responsibilities

• Contribute to the design and development of scalable, multi-tenant microservices that power the platform.
• Implement platform solutions with a focus on performance, security, and maintainability.
• Collaborate with SRE and infrastructure teams to ensure the platform is highly available and optimized for cost and resource usage.
• Work directly with internal users (developers, technical owners, and security specialists) to understand their needs and deliver tailored solutions.
• Assist in defining and maintaining platform standards, including code quality, testing, and security.
• Develop and maintain features in the developer portal to enhance the overall developer experience.
• Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues related to platform performance, security, and scalability.
• Participate in on-call rotations to provide support for production issues when needed.
• Stay informed about industry trends and best practices to contribute to platform evolution.
• Mentor and guide other engineers, fostering a collaborative environment and promoting best practices.
  
  

Preferred Education

Master's Degree

Required Technical And Professional Expertise

7+ years of experience in software development, with exposure to platform engineering and microservice architectures.

• Proficiency in Golang with at least 3 years of hands-on experience.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, OpenShift, or other container orchestration platforms.
• Understanding of virtualization technologies like KVM, VMware, or KubeVirt.
• Familiarity with building Kubernetes/OpenShift Operators (e.g., kube-builder, operator-sdk) and container orchestration lifecycle concepts such as reconciliation loops and API extensions.
• Knowledge of multi-tenant system design and architecture.
• Experience with cloud-native development, CI/CD pipelines, and automation.
• Deep knowledge of Linux systems administration and networking.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code tools like Ansible and Terraform.
• Experience in designing and implementing APIs and microservices.
• Awareness of security best practices for platform development and management.
• Basic understanding of at least one public cloud provider (IBM Public Cloud, AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to tackle technical challenges.
• Experience working in an Agile, collaborative environment to understand stakeholder requirements and deliver high-quality software solutions.
  
  

Preferred Technical And Professional Experience

• Experience working in an enterprise environment with multiple development teams.
• Exposure to IBM cloud infrastructure.
• Familiarity with monitoring, logging, and observability tools.
• Basic knowledge of service mesh technologies (e.g., Istio, Linkerd) and distributed tracing.