Your role and responsibilities
Software Developer, IBM Corporation, Houston, Texas (Up to 40% telecommuting permitted):
- Design, implement, and maintain components for company’s large scale geographically distributed object-storage subsystems (not client SDKs).
- Deliver features involving low-level data-path optimization, garbage-collection tuning, and subsystem-level performance profiling using Go.
- Tune Go code using pprof, race detector, mutex profiling, and custom instrumentation for high-traffic storage workloads.
- Demonstrate production ownership of storage-node components handling erasure-coded data, slice-repair workflows, quorum-based access logic, and multi-region consistency guarantees.
- Participate in a 24/7 rotational on-call pager duty supporting a cloud object-storage offering handling at least 100 PB of addressable capacity, including documented root-cause analyses for production incidents involving network partitions, node churn, gossip-protocol instability, or write-path congestion.
- Write and review detailed requirement specifications within Agile squads using Jira integrated with GitHub, including storypoint sizing based strictly on throughput, latency, and replication-factor implications.
- Design subsystem changes documented in architecture decision records (ADRs) with accompanying sequence diagrams and cluster-state transition flows.
- Create new black-box, white-box, soak, and chaos-injection test cases for storage-layer features; implement automated integration tests running in CI against a multi-node Kubernetes-deployed object-storage testbed.
- Build internal health-check monitors leveraging continuous canary writes, slice-integrity validators, and automated repair-rate thresholds, with successful rollout into a production internal monitoring system.
- Leverage advanced Go programming language to create generics, unsafe operations, and custom memory allocators.
- Implement internal analytics pipelines on object-storage metadata using Apache Spark with Scala.
- Write custom Fluentd plugins for storage telemetry ingestion using Ruby.
- Utilize Cloud Architecture (in multi-region object-storage topologies), Kubernetes (with deployment of stateful object-storage clusters), Sysdig (for low-level container), Activity Tracker (for object-storage access pattern audits), Advanced Go Programming Language, Spark with Scala, Fluentd with Ruby.
Required: Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering or related and five (5) years of experience as a Software Developer, Software Engineer or related. Five (5) years of experience must include utilizing Cloud Architecture (in multi-region object-storage topologies), Kubernetes (with deployment of stateful object-storage clusters), Sysdig (for low-level container), Activity Tracker (for object-storage access pattern audits), Advanced Go Programming Language, Spark with Scala, Fluentd with Ruby. $177213 to $210200 per year. Full time. SN184.
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- Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being
- Financial programs such as 401(k), the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs
- Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law
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